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The government’s NHS 10-Year Health Plan will focus on ‘easier care in neighbourhoods’
The long-awaited NHS 10-Year Health Plan has finally been unveiled by the Government. Under the new plans, millions of patients will be treated closer to home with a new network of neighbourhood health hubs. The aim will be to shift care out of hospitals and into the community. The launch of a Neighbourhood Health Service will see pioneering teams, some based entirely under one roof, set up in local communities across the country, to dramatically improve access to the NHS. The Government says that these neighbourhood health centres will provide easier, more convenient access to a full range of healthcare services on people’s doorsteps – stopping them from having to make lengthy trips to hospitals. Neighbourhood teams will include staff like nurses, doctors, social care workers, pharmacists, health visitors, palliative care staff, and paramedics. Community health workers and volunteers will play a pivotal role in these teams, and local areas will be encouraged to trial innovative schemes like community outreach door-to-door – to detect early signs of illness and reduce pressure on GPs and A&E. New health centres will house the neighbourhood teams, which will eventually be open 12 hours a day, six days a week within local communities. They will not only bring historically hospital-based services into the community - diagnostics, post-operative care, and rehab - but will also offer services like debt advice, employment support and stop smoking or weight management, all of which will help tackle issues which affect people’s health. Under the 10-Year Health Plan, there will also be a focus on prevention measures, which will include: l Harnessing recent breakthroughs in weight loss medication and expanding access through the NHS.
l Encouraging citizens to play their part, including through a new health reward scheme to incentivise healthier choices.
l Tackling harmful alcohol consumption by introducing new standards for alcohol labelling.
l Expanding mental health support teams in schools and colleges and provide additional support for children and young people’s mental health through Young Futures Hubs.
l Increasing uptake of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccinations among young people who have left school, to support the aim of eliminating cervical cancer by 2040.
l Creating a new genomics population health service, accessible to all, by the end of the decade. The Government pledges to implement universal newborn genomic testing and population-based polygenic risk scoring, alongside other emerging diagnostic tools, enabling early identification and intervention for individuals at high risk of developing common diseases.
Chief Executive of the Health Foundation, added: “These ambitions have appeared in NHS plans for decades, so the question now is whether they will
be backed up by the concrete policy changes and investment needed to turn them from rhetoric to reality. A clear delivery plan backed up by the right leadership and support will be needed. Otherwise, the critical benefits of AI and technology may not be realised. While we await the detail, the risk is that it is a plan for the NHS, rather than a plan for health. To tackle the UK’s stalling health and for the NHS to remain sustainable, a comprehensive cross-government strategy is needed for rebuilding the nation’s health – for instance, through tacking poverty and strengthening public health. Just such an approach was promised in the government’s health mission but this is currently missing in action. “There is also a risk that the plan is derailed
by yet another reorganisation of NHS structures. Evidence shows that these reorganisations cause huge disruption and rarely deliver the benefits politicians expect, so the risk is that valuable time, effort and resources are diverted from improving patient care. Given funding for the NHS and other public services is so constrained, this is a distraction that the health service and patients could do without.” To view the 10-Year Health Plan, visit:
https://tinyurl.com/vyadyw6h
Where you live can double your risk of dying prematurely, new analysis finds
New analysis from the Health Foundation, using data and modelling from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), has revealed stark inequalities in premature deaths across England and Wales. The analysis finds that, in the local authority
areas with the highest rates of premature deaths, people are almost twice as likely to die before the age of 75 than those in the areas with the lowest rates. It highlights the deep and entrenched inequalities that hold back the UK’s health and follows on from a recent study from the Foundation that showed our health is falling behind other high
income countries. The new analysis looks at the reasons behind the striking variation in premature deaths in different parts of the country. It finds that by far the biggest contributors are socio-economic factors, such as the levels of education, types of
occupation and the level of deprivation in an area. Ethnicity and being born outside the UK also play a role, although this is much smaller. The analysis finds that, taken together, socio-economic factors, ethnicity and being born outside the UK account for 61% of the variation in premature deaths rates between different areas – whereas, on their own, ethnicity and being born outside the UK account for 7% of the variation. Premature death rates are highest in the North
West, Yorkshire and Humber and, in particular, the North East.
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