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The NHS has actually been marking its 70th anniversary, and the nationwide dispute this has let loose has centred on three big realities. There's been pride in our Health Service's enduring success, and in the shared social dedication it represents. There's been issue - about funding, staffing, increasing inequalities and pressures from a growing and ageing population. But there's also been optimism - about the possibilities for continuing medical advance and much better results of care.

In looking ahead to the Health Service's 80th birthday, this NHS Long Term Plan takes all 3 of these realities as its starting point. So to be successful, we need to keep all that's excellent about our health service and its location in our nationwide life. But we should take on head-on the pressures our personnel face, while making our additional funding reach possible. And as we do so, we need to speed up the redesign of patient care to future-proof the NHS for the years ahead. This Plan sets out how we will do that. We are now able to because:

- initially, we now have a protected and improved financing course for the NHS, averaging 3.4% a year over the next 5 years, compared to 2% over the past 5 years;
- 2nd, since there is large agreement about the modifications now required. This has actually been validated by patients' groups, expert bodies and frontline NHS leaders who given that July have all helped form this plan - through over 200 different occasions, over 2,500 different actions, through insights provided by 85,000 members of the general public and from organisations representing over 3.5 million individuals;
- and 3rd, due to the fact that work that kicked-off after the NHS Five Year Forward View is now beginning to bear fruit, offering useful experience of how to produce the modifications set out in this Plan. Almost whatever in this Plan is already being carried out effectively someplace in the NHS. Now as this Plan is carried out right throughout the NHS, here are the big changes it will bring:

Chapter One sets out how the NHS will relocate to a brand-new service design in which patients get more choices, much better support, and appropriately joined-up care at the correct time in the optimum care setting. GP practices and hospital outpatients presently provide around 400 million face-to-face appointments each year. Over the next five years, every patient will have the right to online 'digital' GP assessments, and upgraded hospital assistance will have the ability to avoid as much as a third of outpatient consultations - conserving patients 30 million trips to hospital, and conserving the NHS over ₤ 1 billion a year in brand-new expense avoided. GP practices - generally covering 30-50,000 people - will be funded to collaborate to deal with pressures in main care and extend the series of convenient local services, developing genuinely integrated groups of GPs, community health and social care personnel. New expanded neighborhood health teams will be required under brand-new nationwide standards to offer quick assistance to people in their own homes as an alternative to hospitalisation, and to increase NHS assistance for people living in care homes. Within five years over 2.5 million more people will take advantage of 'social recommending', an individual health budget plan, and brand-new support for managing their own health in partnership with patients' groups and the voluntary sector.

These reforms will be backed by a new guarantee that over the next 5 years, investment in primary medical and community services will grow faster than the total NHS budget. This dedication - an NHS 'first' - creates a ringfenced regional fund worth at least an additional ₤ 4.5 billion a year in genuine terms by 2023/24.