NHS Long Term Plan The NHS has actually been marking its 70th anniversary, and the national argument this has released has centred on 3 big facts. There's been pride in our Health Service's long-lasting success, and in the shared social dedication it represents. There's been issue - about funding, staffing, increasing inequalities and pressures from a growing and ageing population. But there's also been optimism - about the possibilities for continuing medical advance and better outcomes of care. In expecting the Health Service's 80th birthday, this NHS Long Term Plan takes all three of these truths as its starting point. So to succeed, we must keep all that's excellent about our health service and its place in our nationwide life. But we must tackle head-on the pressures our staff face, while making our extra financing go as far as possible. And as we do so, we should speed up the redesign of client care to future-proof the NHS for the years ahead. This Plan sets out how we will do that. We are now able to because: - initially, we now have a protected and improved funding course for the NHS, balancing 3.4% a year over the next 5 years, compared with 2% over the past 5 years; - 2nd, due to the fact that there is large agreement about the changes now required. This has actually been verified by clients' groups, expert bodies and frontline NHS leaders who considering that July have all assisted form this plan - through over 200 separate events, over 2,500 different actions, through insights provided by 85,000 members of the public and from organisations representing over 3.5 million individuals; - and 3rd, due to the fact that work that kicked-off after the NHS Five Year Forward View is now beginning to bear fruit, providing practical experience of how to produce the modifications set out in this Plan. Almost everything in this Plan is currently being carried out effectively somewhere in the NHS.