Guidance

Change NHS: help build a health service fit for the future

The government is seeking your views on how we can make a health service fit for the future.

Applies to England

Documents

Change NHS online portal

Details

The 10 Year Health Plan is part of the government’s health mission to build a health service fit for the future.

The first step in the process was Lord Darzi’s independent review of the NHS in England to understand the true scale of the challenge facing the health service. That was published on 12 September 2024.  Now that we have the results of that investigation, the government is working to develop a plan to tackle the challenges it identifies.

The plan will set out how we will deliver an NHS fit for the future, creating a truly modern health service designed to meet the changing needs of our changing population. This will not be a top-down imposition. The government will co-develop the plan with the public, staff and patients through a detailed engagement exercise.

To do this, we have launched ‘Change NHS: help build a health service fit for the future’. This is a national conversation to develop the 10 Year Health Plan.

As part of this, we want the public and health and care staff in England to share their views, experiences and ideas at the Change NHS online portal. The portal opened on 21 October 2024 and will run for several months.

This portal is alongside a series of events for people across the country to share their ideas and views over the coming months. This includes a number of regional events with the public and health and care workers to hold more detailed discussions on how we can fix the NHS.

This GOV.UK page gives an outline of the questions asked for public reference and holds the privacy notices for both the online portal and the ‘deliberative events’ taking place.

Alternative formats

Watch the British Sign Language (BSL) version of the Change NHS survey:

BSL version of the Change NHS survey

Ways to respond

Go to the Change NHS online portal to give your views on how we can make a health service fit for the future.

If you prefer to submit your response in another format, for example in a video in BSL or by written email response, email changenhs@thinksinsight.com.

You can also send a response by post to:

Thinks Insight and Strategy
West Wing
Somerset House
London
WC2R 1LA

If you’re completing the easy read version of the survey, you can send this by email or post.

Updates to this page

Published 21 October 2024
Last updated 18 November 2024 + show all updates
  1. Added a privacy notice for the Change NHS 'deliberative events'; moved the privacy notice for the Change NHS online portal to a separate HTML attachment; added links to the easy read and BSL versions of the Change NHS survey.

  2. First published.

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