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We lead the NHS in England to deliver high quality services for all

If you are looking for information about health conditions and NHS services please visit NHS.uk.

My Planned Care gives you advice and support while you wait and helps you to prepare for your hospital consultation, treatment, or surgery.

NHS league tables

These league tables provide a view of how NHS trusts are performing in key services including urgent and emergency care, elective services, mental health and more.

Fit for the Future: 10 Year Health Plan for England

The 10 Year Health Plan for England seizes the opportunities provided by new technologies, medicines, and innovations to deliver better care for all patients – wherever they live and whatever they earn – and better value for taxpayers.

It is making 3 big shifts to how the NHS works:

• from hospital to community
• from analogue to digital
• from sickness to prevention

To find out what the next decade of health and care looks like, read Fit for the Future: 10 Year Health Plan for England.

Medium Term Planning Framework - delivering change together 2026/27 to 2028/29

The Medium Term Planning Framework – delivering change together 2026/27 to 2028/29 is the NHS’s most ambitious plan in a generation, setting out how waiting times will be dramatically reduced and local care restored over the next 3 years while resetting the foundations to deliver the 10 Year Health Plan.

Urgent and emergency care plan 2025/26

This plan sets out how we’ll resuscitate urgent and emergency care, with a focus on getting patients out of corridors, keeping more ambulances on the road, and enable those ready to leave hospital to do so as soon as possible.

Reforming elective care for patients

Our plan sets out how the NHS will reform elective care services and meet the 18 week referral to treatment standard by March 2029.

Digital transformation

Helping health and care professionals communicate better.

Elective care

How we are improving experience and giving people choice and control for elective care services.

Workforce

How we can put the NHS workforce on a sustainable footing and meet future challenges.

Mental health

Improving outcomes and experiences of people with mental health problems.

Integrated care

Giving people the support they need and removing disjointed care.

Cancer

Making sure everyone with cancer receives care, support and treatment.

Urgent and emergency care

Ensuring patients get the right care whenever they need it.

Primary care

Offering patients a wider choice of personalised health services.

Health inequalities improvement

Tackling health inequalities and advancing equality and diversity across the NHS.

NHS IMPACT

Delivering continuous improvement across the NHS.

NHS @home

Providing better connected, more personalised care in homes and care homes.

Record numbers of people are using the NHS App to manage their health, according to the latest statistics. The NHS has released a Spotify Wrapped-style end-of-year update which shows the NHS App now has more than 39 million registered users. A total of 67.8 million repeat prescriptions were also ordered through the app in the past 12 months (1 […]

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