Earlier this month, the government launched its 10-Year Health Plan. It sets out how the government plans to reinvent the NHS with three radical shifts: from hospital to community; from analogue to digital; and from sickness to prevention.
With the government promising to upgrade more than 1,000 doctors’ surgeries, in this issue of Health Business, we take a look at how this money is going to be spent.
Simon Taylor from NHS Property Services outlines how the NHS can better use its existing estate to support the Government’s ten-year health plan by improving space utilisation, reducing waste, and delivering more community-based healthcare.
NHS Supply Chain talk about their new Digital Commerce Programme, which is transforming how NHS trusts order products and ABHI explain how their Accelerator Programme is bringing innovation, investment, and clinical benefits back to the NHS.
The British Institute of Cleaning Science emphasises that effective infection control in cleaning goes beyond disinfectants and PPE.
We've also got some framework explainers and event previews.
Polly Jones, editor
