This has been confirmed by patients’ groups, professional bodies and frontline NHS leaders who since July have all helped shape this plan – through over 200 separate events, over 2,500 separate responses, through insights offered by 85,000 members of the public and from organisations representing over 3.5 million people second, because there is wide consensus about the changes now needed.first, we now have a secure and improved funding path for the NHS, averaging 3.4% a year over the next five years, compared with 2% over the past five years.And as we do so, we must accelerate the redesign of patient care to future-proof the NHS for the decade ahead. But we must tackle head-on the pressures our staff face, while making our extra funding go as far as possible. So to succeed, we must keep all that’s good about our health service and its place in our national life. In looking ahead to the Health Service’s 80th birthday, this NHS Long Term Plan takes all three of these realities as its starting point. But there’s also been optimism – about the possibilities for continuing medical advance and better outcomes of care. There’s been concern – about funding, staffing, increasing inequalities and pressures from a growing and ageing population. There’s been pride in our Health Service’s enduring success, and in the shared social commitment it represents. The NHS has been marking its 70th anniversary, and the national debate this has unleashed has centred on three big truths. Online version of the NHS Long Term Plan.
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