Change NHS: help build a health service fit for the future

A joint Department of Health and Social Care and NHS England team has been established to deliver a 10-Year Health Plan. This plan will be published in the Spring 2025.

The plan will set out how we will deliver an NHS fit for the future, creating a truly modern health service designed to meet the changing needs of our changing population. It will be co-developed with the public, staff and patients through a thorough and detailed engagement exercise starting from Monday 21 October 2024.

NHS staff are facing an unprecedented number of challenges – record demand for care, growing pressures from an ageing population, rising levels of multiple long-term illnesses and patients with more complex needs. Staff are having to manage this while often using outdated tech, seeing patients in crumbling buildings, and struggling to discharge patients when they’re ready to leave due to pressure in social care – all of which means too many patients are waiting too long for the care they need.So, it is vital the health service innovates and adapts – as it has always done throughout its 76-year history – to design and deliver an NHS fit for the future.

The 10-Year Health Plan is a chance to do just that – it will make the best practice, normal practice across England. As the recent Lord Darzi review made clear, many of the solutions to the challenges facing the health service can be found in parts of the NHS today.

So, alongside the Government, the Department of Health and Social Care and NHS England will be carrying out the largest ever staff engagement exercise in NHS history. We will harness frontline views, alongside those of patients and the public, to ensure we uncover them.

It is your experiences – of the good, bad, and sometimes frustrating – that we need to help shape this once in a generation opportunity, so please get involved. You can find out how you can help by going to Change.NHS.uk