New Vision for NHS says small local hospitals will remain

Setting out his vision for the next five years, NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens said that the health service would have to break out of its “narrow confines” and promote healthy lifestyles.

Entirely new models of care, which could include GP surgeries clubbing together into federations to replace many services currently carried out in hospitals, will be set up across the country.

The report, Five Year Forward View, which has been produced by NHS England along with other national NHS bodies including Public Health England and the Care Quality Commission, throws down the gauntlet to the next government on the long-term future and funding of the NHS in England.

It sets out a wide-ranging vision for the future of the health service, with reforms in almost all key areas of care, For example on Hospitals:
Hospitals Care and surgery for many serious conditions – such as stroke, heart disease and some cancers – to be concentrated at specialist centres. However, small local hospitals will remain, and in some places could be taken over by new, GP-local care organisations led groups. Large hospitals in big cities could take on responsibility for leading community care and GP services in their area.

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