ARE YOU READY?

The NHS has recently published its 10 Year Health Plan. 

By anyone’s standards, ‘Fit for the future: 10 year health plan for England’ is a pretty bold plan. It says that The Government will reinvent the NHS through 3 radical shifts:

1. Hospital to community
2. Analogue to digital
3. Sickness to prevention

We really recommend you read this strategy, but here are just four things that I think are important, or exciting, for us to know.

FIT FOR THE FUTURE

Identifying rare diseases and risk of common diseases

“We will implement universal newborn genomic testing and population-based polygenic risk scoring alongside other emerging diagnostic tools, enabling early identification and intervention for individuals at high risk of developing common diseases”.

Wordbird worked on the initial Genomics England project and so I personally feel super-excited about the promise that this holds to reduce the time to diagnosis for rare diseases. And I love the prevention promise, especially in obesity.

Industry playing a bigger role

“Expand the role life sciences and technology companies can play in service delivery. We will streamline procurement of technology, and we will move to a single national formulary (SNF) for medicines within the next 2 years.”

More opportunity for devices

“Expand NICE’s technology appraisal process to cover devices, diagnostics and digital products. NICE will also be given a new role to identify which outdated technologies and therapies can be removed from the NHS to free up resources for investment in more effective ones.”

 

What opportunities does the ‘Fit for the future’ strategy create for your brand or company?

Drop us a line at hello@wordbird.london if you’d like us to help you answer this question.