업체명 : NHS Long Term Plan
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담당자 Tegan 작성일25-07-04 23:36관련링크
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The NHS has actually been marking its 70th anniversary, and the nationwide debate this has released has centred on 3 huge truths. There's been pride in our Health Service's long-lasting success, and in the shared social dedication it represents. There's been issue - about financing, staffing, increasing inequalities and pressures from a growing and ageing population. But there's likewise 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 3 of these realities as its starting point. So to prosper, we need to keep all that's good about our health service and its location in our national life. But we need to tackle head-on the pressures our staff face, while making our additional funding go as far as possible. And as we do so, we should accelerate the redesign of patient care to future-proof the NHS for the years ahead. This Plan sets out how we will do that. We are now able to because:

- initially, we now have a protected and better financing path for the NHS, averaging 3.4% a year over the next five years, compared with 2% over the previous 5 years;
- 2nd, because there is broad agreement about the changes now required. This has actually been confirmed by patients' groups, professional bodies and frontline NHS leaders who given that July have all helped form this strategy - through over 200 different events, over 2,500 separate actions, through insights used by 85,000 members of the public and from over 3.5 million individuals;
- and third, since work that kicked-off after the NHS Five Year Forward View is now beginning to flourish, supplying practical experience of how to produce the modifications set out in this Plan. Almost everything in this Plan is already being implemented effectively someplace in the NHS. Now as this Plan is implemented right throughout the NHS, here are the big changes it will bring:
Chapter One sets out how the NHS will relocate to a new service model in which patients get more choices, much better assistance, and effectively joined-up care at the correct time in the optimal care setting. GP practices and healthcare facility outpatients currently supply around 400 million face-to-face appointments each year. Over the next 5 years, every patient will can online 'digital' GP consultations, and upgraded hospital assistance will have the ability to prevent as much as a 3rd of outpatient consultations - conserving patients 30 million trips to health center, and conserving the NHS over ₤ 1 billion a year in new expense avoided. GP practices - typically covering 30-50,000 people - will be funded to work together to handle pressures in primary care and extend the variety of hassle-free local services, developing truly integrated groups of GPs, community health and social care personnel. New expanded neighborhood health teams will be needed under new nationwide standards to provide quick assistance to people in their own homes as an alternative to hospitalisation, and to ramp up NHS support for individuals residing in care homes. Within 5 years over 2.5 million more individuals will gain from 'social prescribing', an individual health spending plan, and new support for managing their own health in collaboration with clients' groups and the voluntary sector.
These reforms will be backed by a brand-new warranty that over the next five years, investment in primary medical and community services will grow faster than the overall NHS budget plan. This commitment - an NHS 'first' - produces a ringfenced local fund worth at least an extra ₤ 4.5 billion a year in genuine terms by 2023/24.
We have an emergency situation care system under genuine pressure, but likewise one in the midst of profound modification. The Long Term Plan sets out action to ensure patients get the care they need, quick, and to relieve pressure on A&E s. New service channels such as immediate treatment centres are now growing far much faster than healthcare facility A&E presences, and UTCs are being designated across England. For those that do need medical facility care, emergency 'admissions' are significantly being dealt with through 'exact same day emergency situation care' without requirement for an over night stay. This model will be rolled out across all severe healthcare facilities, increasing the proportion of acute admissions usually discharged on day of attendance from a fifth to a third. Building on hospitals' success in improving outcomes for significant trauma, stroke and other critical health problems conditions, brand-new scientific standards will guarantee clients with the most major emergency situations get the very best possible care. And structure on recent gains, in collaboration with local councils additional action to cut delayed health center discharges will assist maximize pressure on health center beds.
Chapter Two sets out new, funded, action the NHS will take to reinforce its contribution to avoidance and health inequalities. Wider action on avoidance will help people stay healthy and also moderate demand on the NHS. Action by the NHS is an enhance to - not a replacement for - the essential role of people, neighborhoods, federal government, and organizations in forming the health of the country. Nevertheless, every 24 hr the NHS comes into contact with more than a million people at moments in their lives that bring home the individual impact of ill health. The Long Term Plan for that reason funds specific new evidence-based NHS prevention programs, including to cut cigarette smoking; to decrease weight problems, partly by doubling enrolment in the effective Type 2 NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme; to limit alcohol-related A&E admissions; and to lower air contamination.
To assist deal with health inequalities, NHS England will base its five year funding allocations to areas on more accurate assessment of health inequalities and unmet requirement. As a condition of receiving Long Term Plan financing, all major national programs and every regional area throughout England will be needed to set out particular quantifiable goals and systems by which they will add to narrowing health inequalities over the next 5 and 10 years. The Plan also sets out particular action, for example to: cut cigarette smoking in pregnancy, and by people with long term psychological health issues; make sure people with learning impairment and/or autism get better support; supply outreach services to individuals experiencing homelessness; assist individuals with severe psychological illness find and keep a job; and enhance uptake of screening and early cancer medical diagnosis for people who presently miss out.
Chapter Three sets the NHS's priorities for care quality and results improvement for the decade ahead. For all significant conditions, results for patients are now measurably better than a decade ago. Childbirth is the best it has actually ever been, cancer survival is at an all-time high, deaths from cardiovascular disease have actually halved because 1990, and male suicide is at a 31-year low. But for the biggest killers and disablers of our population, we still have unmet requirement, unexplained local variation, and undoubted chances for further medical advance. These realities, together with clients' and the public's views on priorities, imply that the Plan goes further on the NHS Five Year Forward View's focus on cancer, mental health, diabetes, multimorbidity and healthy aging including dementia. But it also extends its focus to children's health, cardiovascular and respiratory conditions, and learning special needs and autism, amongst others.
Some enhancements in these locations are always framed as 10 year objectives, offered the timelines needed to broaden capacity and grow the labor force. So by 2028 the Plan commits to significantly improving cancer survival, partially by increasing the percentage of cancers detected early, from a half to three quarters. Other gains can take place sooner, such as halving maternity-related deaths by 2025. The Plan likewise designates enough funds on a phased basis over the next five years to increase the number of planned operations and cut long waits. It makes a restored dedication that mental health services will grow faster than the total NHS spending plan, producing a new ringfenced regional mutual fund worth at least ₤ 2.3 billion a year by 2023/24. This will enable additional service growth and faster access to neighborhood and crisis psychological health services for both adults and especially children and young people. The Plan likewise recognises the critical significance of research and innovation to drive future medical advance, with the NHS devoting to play its full part in the advantages these bring both to clients and the UK economy.
To allow these modifications to the service design, to prevention, and to major scientific enhancements, the Long Term Plan sets out how they will be backed by action on workforce, innovation, innovation and effectiveness, in addition to the NHS' overall 'system architecture'.
Chapter Four sets out how present labor force pressures will be tackled, and staff supported. The NHS is the greatest company in Europe, and the world's largest employer of extremely skilled specialists. But our staff are feeling the pressure. That's partly since over the past years labor force development has actually not kept up with the increasing demands on the NHS. And it's partly due to the fact that the NHS hasn't been a sufficiently versatile and responsive company, especially in the light of altering personnel expectations for their working lives and careers.
However there are practical chances to put this right. University locations for entry into nursing and medication are oversubscribed, education and training places are being expanded, and much of those leaving the NHS would stay if companies can lower workload pressures and use improved flexibility and professional advancement. This Long Term Plan for that reason sets out a variety of particular labor force actions which will be managed by NHS Improvement that can have a favorable effect now. It also sets out larger reforms which will be settled in 2019 when the labor force education and training budget for HEE is set by government. These will be included in the extensive NHS labor force application plan released later on this year, managed by the new cross-sector national labor force group, and underpinned by a brand-new compact between frontline NHS leaders and the nationwide NHS management bodies.
In the meantime the Long Term Plan sets out action to expand the variety of nursing and other undergraduate places, ensuring that well-qualified prospects are not turned away as happens now. Funding is being ensured for a growth of clinical positionings of approximately 25% from 2019/20 and approximately 50% from 2020/21. New routes into nursing and other disciplines, consisting of apprenticeships, nursing associates, online certification, and 'make and learn' support, are all being backed, together with a new post-qualification employment guarantee. International recruitment will be considerably broadened over the next three years, and the labor force implementation strategy will also set out brand-new rewards for shortage specializeds and hard-to-recruit to locations.
To support existing personnel, more flexible rostering will end up being necessary throughout all trusts, funding for continuing professional advancement will increase each year, and action will be required to support diversity and a culture of respect and fair treatment. New functions and inter-disciplinary credentialing programmes will enable more workforce flexibility throughout an individual's NHS profession and between individual staff groups. The brand-new main care networks will offer versatile options for GPs and wider medical care groups. Staff and clients alike will gain from a doubling of the number of volunteers also helping across the NHS.
Chapter Five sets out a wide-ranging and financed programme to upgrade technology and digitally enabled care across the NHS. These investments make it possible for a number of the wider service modifications set out in this Long Term Plan. Over the next 10 years they will result in an NHS where digital access to services is widespread. Where patients and their carers can much better handle their health and condition. Where clinicians can gain access to and connect with patient records and care plans any place they are, with prepared access to choice support and AI, and without the administrative hassle of today. Where predictive methods support local Integrated Care Systems to prepare and optimise care for their populations. And where protected connected medical, genomic and other data support brand-new medical advancements and constant quality of care. Chapter Five identifies costed foundation and turning points for these developments.
Chapter Six sets out how the 3.4% five year NHS funding settlement will assist put the NHS back onto a sustainable monetary course. In guaranteeing the price of the phased dedications in this Long Term Plan we have actually taken account of the current monetary pressures across the NHS, which are a first call on additional funds. We have actually likewise been sensible about inevitable continuing demand development from our growing and aging population, increasing issue about areas of longstanding unmet requirement, and the expanding frontiers of medical science and innovation. In the modelling underpinning this Long Term Plan we have therefore not locked-in an assumption that its increased investment in community and main care will always reduce the need for medical facility beds. Instead, taking a sensible technique, we have actually attended to healthcare facility financing as if patterns over the past three years continue. But in practice we expect that if areas implement the Long Term Plan effectively, they will gain from a financial and medical facility capacity 'dividend'.
In order to provide for taxpayers, the NHS will continue to drive performances - all of which are then readily available to local areas to reinvest in frontline care. The Plan lays out major reforms to the NHS' financial architecture, payment systems and rewards. It develops a brand-new Financial Recovery Fund and 'turnaround' process, so that on a phased basis over the next 5 years not only the NHS as an entire, however likewise the trust sector, local systems and specific organisations progressively go back to financial balance. And it reveals how we will save taxpayers an additional ₤ 700 million in decreased administrative costs throughout suppliers and commissioners both nationally and locally.
Chapter Seven explains next steps in implementing the Long Term Plan. We will develop on the open and consultative process used to establish this Plan and enhance the capability of clients, experts and the public to contribute by developing the brand-new NHS Assembly in early 2019. 2019/20 will be a transitional year, as the local NHS and its partners have the chance to form regional application for their populations, taking account of the Clinical Standards Review and the national application structure being published in the spring, as well as their differential regional beginning points in protecting the significant nationwide improvements set out in this Long Term Plan. These will be brought together in an in-depth national execution programme by the autumn so that we can likewise appropriately appraise Government Spending Review decisions on labor force education and training budget plans, social care, councils' public health services and NHS capital investment.

Parliament and the Government have both asked the NHS to make consensus propositions for how primary legislation might be adapted to better support shipment of the concurred changes set out in this LTP. This Plan does not require changes to the law in order to be carried out. But our view is that modification to the primary legislation would considerably speed up progress on service integration, on administrative performance, and on public accountability. We advise modifications to: create publicly-accountable integrated care in your area; to enhance the nationwide administrative structures of the NHS; and eliminate the extremely stiff competitors and procurement regime used to the NHS.
In the meantime, within the existing legal structure, the NHS and our partners will be relocating to develop Integrated Care Systems everywhere by April 2021, building on the progress already made. ICSs bring together regional organisations in a practical and practical way to deliver the 'triple integration' of primary and specialist care, physical and mental health services, and health with social care. They will have a crucial function in dealing with Local Authorities at 'location' level, and through ICSs, commissioners will make shared choices with suppliers on population health, service redesign and Long Term Plan application.
