Fit for the Future, the 10 Year Health Plan for England, Shipman, Partnership of Trust & Building the future at Haughton Thornley Medical Centres
This is a Plan to create a new model of care, fit for the future. It will be central to how we deliver on our health mission. We will take the NHS’ founding principles – universal care, free at the point of delivery, based on need and funded through general taxation – and from those foundations, entirely reimagine how the NHS does care so patients have real choice and control over their health and care.
“From analogue to digital. New technology will liberate staff from timewasting admin and make booking appointments and managing your care as easy as online banking or shopping.”
The Rt Hon Sir Keir Starmer, KCB KC MP Prime Minister July 2025
Making the NHS App a worldleading tool for patient choice
“The NHS App will be how we create a truly empowering, digitally enabled NHS, that shifts power from ‘producer’ to patient. By 2028, the App will be a full front door to the entire NHS. It will be where patients go to manage their medicines, view their data, book and hold their appointments, communicate with their health team and draft their care plan.”
FIT FOR THE FUTURE 10 Year Health Plan for England
This talk was delivered originally on 6th June 2025 “Engaging communities and patients using their own health and health records and WHO “One Health” and “Patient Safety Charter”. It describes our journey from starting at a practice where Shipman broke the trust of patients and the public and how that trust was regained through the Partnership of Trust, the journey we have been on to enable patients to access their GP electronic health records and gain a better understanding of their healthcare, the NHS app and its wider rollout, some of the benefits of patients accessing their records, how Haughton Thornley Medical Centres has incorporated an explicvit consent process to drive the uptake of access to records, overcoming many challenges along the way and some of the lessons learned as 80% of all its patients now have full access to their records. It also described Paul Welsh’s experiences as a carer and how it has helped him to support his family too.
