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The NHS Long Term Plan, also known as the NHS 10-Year Plan is a document published by NHS England on 7 January 2019, which sets out its priorities for healthcare over the next 10 years and shows how the NHS funding settlement will be used. It was published by NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens and Prime Minister Theresa May. [1]
In 2019 only 10% of NHS trusts claimed to be fully digitised. The NHS Long Term Plan requires all hospitals to move to digital records by 2023, so clinicians can access and interact with patient records and care plans wherever they are. As of 2019, 62% of trusts have plans to digitise all their patient records.
Shadow health secretary Edward Argar said: “We will engage constructively to deliver much-needed long-term social care reform, but after 14 years in opposition it is deeply disappointing that ...
Its claims that the NHS could deliver £22bn of annual savings in 5 years’ time, is the latest of a long line of reports to assert that there is scope for the NHS to make major savings, [10] but the report does make it clear that more resources, an extra £8bn in Government funding by 2020 would be needed. [11]
He also commented that there was little guidance and so more latitude than is usually the case with national NHS initiatives. [17] In January 2019 it was announced in the NHS Long Term Plan that by April 2021 integrated care systems were to cover the whole of England with a single clinical commissioning group for each area.
As part of the 2018 funding increase the UK Government asked the NHS in England to produce a 10-year plan as to how this funding would be used. [33] In June 2018 the Institute for Fiscal Studies stated that a 5% real-terms increase was needed. Paul Johnson of the IFS said the 3.4% was greater than recent increases, but less than the long-term ...
The act was an important part of the explanation for the deterioration in performance of the NHS as a whole, the report said. "Rather than liberating the NHS, as it had promised, the Health and Social Care Act 2012 imprisoned more than a million NHS staff in a broken system for the best part of a decade". [70]
NHS England, formerly the NHS Commissioning Board for England, is an executive non-departmental public body of the Department of Health and Social Care. It oversees the budget, planning, delivery and day-to-day operation of the commissioning side of the National Health Service in England as set out in the Health and Social Care Act 2012 . [ 3 ]