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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Anna Bawden Health and social affairs correspondent

Twelve key takeaways from Labour’s 10-year NHS plan

A busy corridor in an NHS hospital.
The plan aims to ‘end hospital outpatients as we know it’ and allow acute hospitals to focus on urgent care. Photograph: Jeff Moore/PA

The 10-year NHS plan aims to make healthcare more digital, focus on preventing ill health and provide more services locally, rather than in hospitals. It will greatly expand the NHS app and increase the use of AI and other technology.

Structural changes aim to bring routine healthcare closer to patients, with the aim that most outpatient care will happen outside hospitals, while new neighbourhood health centres will provide most services so that acute hospitals can focus on looking after the most unwell.

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