The report has many transformative propositions, grounded in research. It focuses on building a preventative model of healthcare, as opposed to the reactive version we have been experiencing for the last few decades.
The proposed 10-point plan for the suture of health and social care is as follows:
Prevention: from waiting for sickness to creating health
1. A nationwide roll out of Neighbourhood Health Hubs to coordinate and deliver integrated health and care services in every neighbourhood.
2. A new, rewarding right to salaried employment in general practice as ‘consultants in primary care’.
3. A social care guarantee, delivered by replacing unfair user charges with free personal care and driving up the quality of providers with ethical commissioning.
4. In place of centrally set targets, a bold, long-term ‘healthy lives’ mission for Integrated Care Systems (ICSs), backed by new planning and resource allocation powers to deliver against it.
Productivity: from efficiency to effectiveness
5. A new deal for health and care workers, from better take-home pay to stronger worker rights, to retain and remotivate the workforce.
6. Passing power to the front line, through new forms of worker voice and representation in service design and workplace governance, to unlock innovation.
7. Upgrading digital and physical infrastructure across the health and care system, with investment in diagnostic equipment, buildings, digital connectivity and new technologies.
8. Creating a pipeline of better leaders and managers across the health and care system.
9. New mechanisms for patient and public voice, including a new digital user feedback dashboard and greater use of citizen juries in difficult commissioning decisions.
Financing the future, fairly
10. A five-year funding settlement that grows NHS funding by 3.6 per cent per year and adult social care funding funding by 5.2 per cent per year, to break the feast and famine model and transform services for the 21st century, with revenue raised by progressive tax reform.
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