
Committing to further national support in dentistry.New targets would be unwelcome without additional funding and resources. Retained national targets should focus on the five clinical target areas laid out in the CORE20PLUS5 approach (maternity, severe mental illness, chronic respiratory disease, cancer and hypertension) where national intervention has been effective. Several targets outlined in the Long Term Plan can be retired. Setting out fewer, more focused targets.
First, it must present a less centralised approach to reflect a different health and care landscape and the new operating model:. It argues that any review of a long-term strategy for the NHS should seek to achieve three objectives: This report has been informed by extensive engagement with our members, leaders across the NHS, through a series of roundtables and interviews. To have any value, discussions about future plans for the NHS must reflect this reality and set out an honest vision for what the NHS should seek to achieve over the remainder of this decade, and how it will be supported to do so amid the severe pressures local services are experiencing. While the NHS Long Term Plan (LTP) in 2019 was welcomed by health leaders, the NHS has since faced the most significant pressures in its history resulting from COVID-19 and, more recently, inflation and the cost-of-living crisis.