10 year health plan for England announced | Latest news

Today, the Government published its 10 Year Health Plan for England.

The plan aims to fundamentally reinvent the approach to healthcare and focuses on three shifts:

• From hospital to community
• From analogue to digital
• From treatment to prevention

Here at NUH, we are already delivering on these three shifts, tackling waiting times and improving care. Here are just some of the ways we are making improvements:

• Using AI to diagnose prostate cancer – helping us to improve the accuracy of prostate cancer diagnosis, reducing turnaround times which results in quicker treatment.
• Opening the National Rehabilitation Centre (NRC) – to be launched later this year for patients across the East Midlands, the NRC aims to transform UK rehabilitation. The cost of treating each patient will save £500,000 in health and social care costs. 
• Using virtual wards – a digital alternative to hospital care supported by an expect clinical consultant team.
• Improved discharge - processes and collaboration with Nottinghamshire social care have resulted in two wards’ worth of beds being freed up.
• Maximising theatre and planned care space – from dual-operating theatres to high-intensity theatre lists and 24-hour surgery, our teams are delivering more procedures and reducing waiting lists using innovative practices.
• Electronic patient record – we’re consolidating existing paper-based and digital systems into a single integrated electronic patient record, moving to an intuitive solution that allows clinicians to efficiently review and enter timely patient information.
• Respiratory clinic for the homeless - a dedicated clinic in the community supporting admission avoidance for some of the most vulnerable patients in our communities.
• Specialist antenatal clinics - for women with diabetes and female genital mutilation have moved from our hospitals to the community, improving access and attendance.
• Orthopaedic Frailty Admission and Discharge Unit - the first in the UK, the unit is a space for older patients with critical injuries. Patients benefit from improved outcomes, and it helps to relieve pressures in the emergency department.