The NHS has been marking its 70th anniversary, and the national dispute this has actually unleashed has actually centred on 3 huge realities. There's been pride in our Health Service's enduring success, and in the shared social commitment it represents. There's been concern - about funding, staffing, increasing inequalities and pressures from a growing and ageing population. But there's also been optimism - about the possibilities for continuing medical advance and better outcomes of care.
In looking ahead to the Health Service's 80th birthday, this NHS Long Term Plan takes all three of these truths as its starting point. So to prosper, we must keep all that's good about our health service and its place in our nationwide life. But we need to deal with head-on the pressures our personnel face, while making our additional funding reach possible. And as we do so, we must speed up the redesign of client care to future-proof the NHS for the decade ahead. This Plan sets out how we will do that. We are now able to because:
- initially, we now have a protected and better funding path for the NHS, averaging 3.4% a year over the next 5 years, compared with 2% over the past five years
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NHS Long Term Plan
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