SPONSORED BY HEALTH SECTOR NEWS Long Term Plan aims for ‘NHS fit for the future’
The NHS Long Term Plan, launched on 7 January, sets out how the £20.5 billion budget settlement for the NHS, announced by the Prime Minister last summer, will be spent over the next five years, and includes measures to prevent 150,000 heart attacks, strokes, and dementia cases, as well as to provide better access to mental health services for both adults and children. The Department of Health and Social Care says the Plan ‘focuses on building an NHS fit for the future’, by: n enabling everyone to get the best start in life;
n helping communities to live well; n helping people to age well.
It has been developed in partnership with frontline health and care staff, patients, and their families, with the aim of improving outcomes for major diseases, including cancer, heart disease, stroke, respiratory disease, and dementia. The
Plan includes measures to: n improve out-of-hospital care, supporting primary medical and community health services;
n ‘ensure that all children get the best start in life’ – by continuing to improve maternity safety, including halving the number of stillbirths, maternal and neonatal deaths, and serious brain injury, by 2025;
n support older people through more personalised care and stronger community and primary care services;
n ‘make digital health services a mainstream part of the NHS, so that in five years, patients in England will be able to access a digital GP offer’.
Health and Social Care Secretary, Matt Hancock, said: “The NHS Long Term Plan, backed by a historic commitment of an extra £20.5 billion a year from taxpayers, marks an important moment not just for the health service, but for the lives of millions of patients and hardworking NHS
staff across the country. Whether it’s treating ever more people in their communities, using the latest technology to tackle preventable diseases, or giving every baby the very best start in life, this government has given the NHS the multi- billion-pound investment needed to nurture and safeguard our nation’s health service for generations to come.” With the Government having made much in the past 3-4 years of its determination to give parity to physical and mental healthcare, the Plan also includes a promise to spend at least £2.3 bn more a year on mental healthcare over the next five years, ‘expanding support for perinatal mental health conditions, increasing funding for children and young people’s mental health, helping 380,000 more people get therapy for depression and anxiety by 2023/24, and delivering community-based physical and mental care for 370,000 people with severe mental illness a year by the same date’.
Opening for ‘one of Europe’s largest endoscopy centres’
The Gastroenterology Department at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital (NNUH) has moved some of its services to the Quadram Institute (pictured), a multi-million pound facility on Norwich Research Park, which will now be home to a range of endoscopy and bowel cancer screening services.
In its new location the Department will be able to conduct at least 40,000 procedures annually, making it one of Europe’s largest endoscopy centres. Dr Simon Rushbrook, clinical lead for Gastroenterology at NNUH said: “We are excited to be starting our endoscopic service in this state-of-the- art building. The Quadram Institute is a unique institution, bringing together a busy NHS department with scientists and researchers in a ground-breaking
diagnosis or exclusion of gastrointestinal cancer.”
The Quadram Institute’s ‘mission’ is ‘to develop solutions to worldwide challenges in human health, food and disease’. It has been created by the NNUH, the University of East Anglia, Quadram Institute Bioscience, and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) – ‘to work across four research themes’: the gut, healthy ageing, food innovation, and food safety.
collaboration. It will result in quicker access to endoscopic diagnostics for patients, and rapid access for the
The 10-room endoscopy centre will be run under a ‘vendor-neutral’ managed service agreement between NNUH and Genmed, working in partnership with Olympus, which will provide ‘the latest medical devices’, together with a seven- year maintenance contract.
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