NHS 10 Year Health Plan for England: fit for the future

The NHS now stands at an existential brink. Demographic change and population ageing are set to heap yet more demand on an already stretched health service. Without change, this will threaten yet worse access and outcomes - and even more will opt out to go private if they can afford to. People will increasingly wonder why they pay so much tax for a service they do not use, eroding the principle of solidarity that has sustained the NHS. We will be condemned to a poor service for poor people.

The choice for the NHS is stark: reform or die. We can continue down our current path, making tweaks to an increasingly unsustainable model, or we can take a new course and reimagine the NHS through transformational change that will guarantee its sustainability for generations to come. This Plan chooses the latter. It represents a break with the past.

Read the government’s 10 Year Health Plan for England here