NHS 10 Year Health Plan and its Impact on Tendering
The forthcoming NHS 10 Year Health Plan will focus on 3 key areas of change and development within the NHS:
- A Focus on Preventing Sickness: A priority on preventative care, detecting illnesses as early as possible and implementing public services and policies that promote good health.
- Moving Care from Hospitals to Communities: Expanding primary and community care services to manage long-term health conditions and reduce hospital reliance.
- A Switch from Analogue to Digital Healthcare Systems: Moving health and care services from paper-based systems, utilising digital technologies to improve service efficiency and patient care, empowering patients to manage their own health more effectively.
NHS 10 Year Health Plan – What Is It?
The plan is being developed through consultations and conversations with the public and healthcare professionals, with addressing health inequalities, and workforce challenges (such as nursing shortages) central to implementing a plan that will establish a financially sustainable, proactive and community-focused NHS.
NHS 10 Year Health Plan And Tendering
So how will this impact tendering within healthcare? As the landscape of the NHS changes, so too will the priorities of contract commissioners. Based on these 3 core areas of adaptation set to make up the next 10 years of the NHS, these are the key areas we expect to be a primary focus of tenders moving forwards:
Preventative Care
Preventative Care focuses on proactively maintaining good health and preventing diseases before they occur. This includes routine screenings and check-ups to enable early detection of potential health issues, vaccinations and the provision and advertisement of information and resources around health education and healthy habits. Early detection of illness and diseases reduces costs and burden on healthcare resources further down the line, improving people’s quality of life in the present.
With preventative care set to take a central role within the 10-year health plan it is inevitable that commissioners will be looking to work with services that take a proactive approach to care, working to maintain service-user independence and good health for as long as possible.
Community Based Services
Reducing hospital visits and treating individuals within the community will reduce the strain on the NHS and support individuals to maintain normality and routine in their day-to-day life. This may involve an increase in virtual wards and an increase in local diagnostic centres.
Services that can demonstrate integration and partnerships with external healthcare professionals would undoubtedly be appealing to commissioners when considering this element of the 10-year plan. Services that actively support individuals in the community and in collaboration with specialist practitioners will be well placed with these proposed changes.
Digital Services
The utilisation of technology very much encompasses elements of proposed improvements in preventative care and increased usage of community-based support. Digitalisation is key to enabling integration of services and greater understanding of preventing future illnesses and diseases. Any increased reliance on community-based services would require a greater integration of personal information via digitisation between hospitals, local GPs and other healthcare professionals to enable adaptive and up-to-date support.
Services striking a balance between in-person and digital support, utilising the technology available to them, will benefit from this shift from analogue to digital, with digitalisation and technology usage increasingly becoming an important factor in tendering.
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