Policy paper: Our plan for patients

Policy paper: Our plan for patients Our plan for patients sets out our priorities for health and care, delivering across 4 key areas:

• ambulances
• backlogs
• care
• doctors and dentists

It includes common sense changes, delivering tangible benefits for patients. This means removing the barriers that get in the way of patient care, putting more information at the fingertips of patients and freeing up the time of clinicians to do what they do best: caring for patients. Department of Health and Social Care

See also: 

• Health and Social Care Secretary to set out new plan for patients and call on public to play a part in national endeavour Department of Health and Social Care
• Health Secretary’s NHS plan is little more than ‘rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic’ BMA
• Government must address workforce crisis Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
• Tiny fixes in the face of huge challenges for the NHS and patients The Health Foundation
• Does a new Prime Minister signal change in health and social care? (podcast) The Health Foundation
• Priorities recognise challenge of perilous winter for NHS and care services but there are no quick fixes Nuffield Trust
• 'We don't have enough nursing staff' Royal College of Nursing
• RCP responds to statement from the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Royal College of Physicians
• £500m funding to help hospitals discharge patients BBC News
• Backlash over NHS rescue 'plan': Ex-Health Sec Jeremy Hunt says service needs more staff NOT targets The Daily Mail
• Practices face two-week access target with 300 fewer GPs than last year GPonline
• What is in Thérèse Coffey’s new NHS plan? The Guardian
• The Guardian view on the NHS: A brutal winter is coming | Editorial The Guardian
• Coffey promises £500 million ‘down payment’ for social care over winter The Independent
• GP numbers fall again as NHS surgeries told they must see patients within two weeks iNews
• NHS facing 'most extreme winter crisis it has ever seen' Metro