NHS Long Term Plan

With growing pressure on the NHS – an ageing population, more people living with long-term conditions, and lifestyle choices affecting people’s health – changes are needed to make sure everybody gets the support they need.

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About the Long Term Plan

The Government is investing an extra £20bn a year in the NHS. The NHS has produced a Long Term Plan, setting out all the things it wants health services to do better for people across the country. Now your local NHS needs to hear from you about what those changes should look like in your community.

The Long Term Plan sets out what the NHS wants to do better, including making it easier for people to access support closer to home and via technology, doing more to help people stay well, and providing better support for people with cancer, mental health conditions, heart and lung diseases, long-term conditions, such as diabetes and arthritis, learning disabilities and autism, and for people as they get older and experience conditions such as dementia.

Your local NHS needs to hear from you about what it should do to make care better for your community:

  • How would you help people live healthier lives?
  • What would make health services better?
  • How would you make it easier for people to take control of their own health and wellbeing?
  • What would you do to make support better for people with long-term conditions?

Update December 2020

Healthwatch Hertfordshire and Herts and West Essex Sustainability Transformation Partnership (STP) worked together to identify the needs of local residents and published The NHS Long Term Plan: Views from Hertfordshire report.

You can read about the consultation and find the reports here on our website or download the documents below.

NHS Long Term Plan Reports

You can download and read the full findings and summary reports here.

NHS Long Term Plan Report
NHS Long Term Plan Summary Report