The government’s big plan for the 10 Year Health Plan for the NHS laid out a big role for delivery. However, the Highland Marketing advisory board felt the missing implementation plan will have some big issues to address, from addressing the state of NHS IT today, to finding the time and money to deliver on its vision.
The government has published its 10 Year Health Plan, Fit for the Future. Picking up from Lord Darzi’s investigation into the state of the NHS in England, it says the service is “at a historic crossroads” and must “reform or die.”
Its vision for reform is a new model of care that will be achieved through the now-familiar three shifts (from hospital to community, treatment to prevention, and analogue to digital) and delivered by a shake-up of NHS structures, finance, and regulation.
The plan also sets out some big plans for digital, including a single patient record, a massively expanded NHS App, some new, national platforms, and five big “bets” on data, genomics, AI, wearables, and
