Twelve key takeaways from Labour’s 10-year NHS plan

The 10-year NHS plan aims to make healthcare more digital, focus on preventing ill health and provide more services locally, rather than in hospitals. It will greatly expand the NHS app and increase the use of AI and other technology.

Structural changes aim to bring routine healthcare closer to patients, with the aim that most outpatient care will happen outside hospitals, while new neighbourhood health centres will provide most services so that acute hospitals can focus on looking after the most unwell.

The main measures include:

1. NHS app becoming a “doctor” in patients’ pockets

2. Patient league tables from this summer

3. Integrated digital patient records

4. Patients referring themselves for hearing tests, counselling, podiatry and back pain

5. Digitised “red book” system of recording baby and child health records

6. Greater use of AI and genomic sequencing and free wearable devices in some areas

7. One million people being offered a personal health budget by 2030, with everyone eligible by 2035

8. Community health hubs providing a “one-stop shop” for integrated care

9. Treatment targets brought back and promises to end “corridor care”

10. Specialist mental health emergency departments

11. Expanded access to weight loss jabs and anti-obesity measures

12. More NHS staff

Read full story

Source: The Guardian, 3 July 2025