NHS trusts are bringing the government's 10-year health plan to
life.
A new podcast mini-series by NHS Providers shows how they are
working towards the goals set out in the plan: shifting care from
hospital to community, treatment to prevention and analogue to
digital.
In the course of three episodes Providers deliver: 10-year
health plan trailblazers demonstrates how trusts in
different parts of the country, including hospital, mental
health, community and ambulance services, are taking forward new
and creative ways of working to ensure patients receive the care
they need, while also contributing to a more sustainable future
for the NHS.
In episode one, We can actually do
this! NHS Providers chief executive Daniel Elkeles
reflects on the merits of the 10-year health plan, and the
progress he's witnessed during many trust visits up and down the
country. This episode also explores two case studies – Somerset
NHS Foundation Trust and Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust –
and highlights innovative, collaborative approaches to improving
population health.
Episode two, Relationships at the heart
of it focuses on two more compelling case studies –
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and Kent
Community Health NHS Foundation Trust. This episode demonstrates
how collaborative care models and digital innovation are
transforming patient outcomes and workforce efficiency across
organisational boundaries.
The final episode, Making the three shifts
business as usual looks at the extraordinary work of
Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust in transforming
mental health care by embedding support into primary care, guided
by patient feedback and community collaboration, leading to
better access to care, fewer referrals, and a more preventative,
empowering model.
Launching the podcast series the chief executive of NHS
Providers, Daniel Elkeles, said:
“Through my trust visits I have seen at first hand the amazing
work that's bringing to life the ambitions of the 10-year health
plan.
“No one under-estimates the scale of the challenges, but the plan
has helped to create the conditions for transformation, and I'm
absolutely convinced the NHS can do this.
“A vital ingredient will be to share and scale up success,
building on lessons learned by trailblazing trusts, so they don't
have to be re-discovered time and again.
“That's why this Providers Deliver series is so
important – celebrating the success of trusts that have set the
pace.
“The amount of change and transformation already happening across
hospitals, mental health, community and ambulance services, is
huge.
“Trust leaders understand and accept the scale of the challenge
and are already working to deliver meaningful change – these
efforts deserve recognition.
“With the right support and encouragement, NHS providers can and
will deliver.”
