Posts Tagged ‘NHS’
Building the NHS Business Case: Creating the Case for Change Before Adoption
Most pharma, medtech and device companies accept that, sooner or later, a business case will be required to unlock meaningful NHS adoption. Teams expect to be asked for clinical evidence, cost-effectiveness data, outcomes modelling and impact projections. Many are well rehearsed in responding to those requests and invest heavily in data generation and slide decks designed to support them. And yet, despite strong…
Read MoreAdvice and Guidance: The Next Phase Of NHS Elective Transformation, From Initiative To Expectation
When I first wrote about Advice and Guidance (A&G) earlier this year, it was clear something significant was happening beneath the surface of NHS elective recovery. The idea that a GP could get specialist advice digitally before referring a patient was quietly reshaping care. It promised quicker decisions, reduced waiting lists and fewer unnecessary outpatient…
Read MoreReshaping NHS Planning: A New Five‑Year Framework For England
In September 2025, NHS England published its new Planning Framework for the NHS in England, a guide intended to reshape medium term strategy across the service. It is designed for local leaders across Integrated Care Boards, providers, regional teams and local government who are responsible for planning services over the next five years from 2026/27…
Read MoreRadical Transparency In The NHS: What Chapter 6 Of The 10-Year Plan Means For Suppliers, GPs And Systems
The NHS 10-Year Plan sets out a vision that is both simple and ambitious for better care, with much greater transparency, for all. In chapter six, the focus turns to the quality of care and asks how patients, professionals and systems can understand, improve and be held accountable for the care delivered across settings. This…
Read MoreNHS 10-Year Plan: The devolved NHS and what the new operating model means for pharma, medtech and device suppliers
Chapter five of the NHS 10-Year Plan sets out one of the most radical structural shifts in the service’s 75-year history. A transformation from a command and control model to one built on devolution, place leadership and local accountability. It proposes a new operating model where Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) and, within them, Places and…
Read MoreNHS 10-Year Plan: From sickness to prevention and what this means for industry and ICSs
Chapter four of the NHS 10-Year Plan makes an urgent and ambitious argument – the UK must shift decisively from a reactive sickness model to a proactive prevention model. The evidence is overwhelming – one out of every five deaths in England are preventable. Yet the vast majority of NHS spending still goes on treating…
Read MoreNHS 10-Year Plan: Data, AI and the Trust Gap
The third chapter of the 10 Year Health Plan for England highlights ambitions to use patient data for personalised care, research and AI development. It talks about a Learning Health System where data flows in real time, guiding decisions, identifying risk and improving outcomes. These are exciting possibilities. But they depend on public trust, and…
Read MoreNHS 10-year Plan: From Hospital To Community: The Promise And The Problem Of Neighbourhood Health
Chapter Two of the NHS 10‑Year Plan introduces one of its most radical and hopeful ideas; a fully integrated, community led Neighbourhood Health Service. If realised, it could transform the way patients experience care, bringing General Practice, community pharmacy, diagnostics, social care, mental health and prevention into one cohesive, locally delivered system. It’s a great…
Read MoreThe NHS 10-Year Plan: Strategic Vision or Delivery Dilemma?
After working through all ten chapters of the NHS 10-Year Plan, one thing is clear, this is a plan with vision. It offers a compelling picture of a more integrated, preventive, community based NHS, rooted in neighbourhood teams, powered by data and innovation and focused on population health and outcomes. But it’s also a plan…
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