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.
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.'
