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## We lead the NHS in England to deliver high quality services for all

If you are looking for information about health conditions and NHS services please visit NHS.uk.

My Planned Care gives you advice and support while you wait and helps you to prepare for your hospital consultation, treatment, or surgery.

## NHS league tables

These league tables provide a view of how NHS trusts are performing in key services including urgent and emergency care, elective services, mental health and more.

## Fit for the Future: 10 Year Health Plan for England

The 10 Year Health Plan for England seizes the opportunities provided by new technologies, medicines, and innovations to deliver better care for all patients – wherever they live and whatever they earn – and better value for taxpayers.

It is making 3 big shifts to how the NHS works:

- from hospital to community
- from analogue to digital
- from sickness to prevention

To find out what the next decade of health and care looks like, read Fit for the Future: 10 Year Health Plan for England.

## Urgent and emergency care plan 2025/26

This plan sets out how we’ll resuscitate urgent and emergency care, with a focus on getting patients out of corridors, keeping more ambulances on the road, and enable those ready to leave hospital to do so as soon as possible.

## Reforming elective care for patients

Our new plan sets out how the NHS will reform elective care services and meet the 18 week referral to treatment standard by March 2029.

## 2025/26 priorities and operational planning guidance

Our national planning guidance for 2025/26 sets out the priorities for the NHS to transform services, cut waiting times and improve care for our patients across England.

### Digital transformation

Helping health and care professionals communicate better.

### Elective care

How we are improving experience and giving people choice and control for elective care services.

### Workforce

How we can put the NHS workforce on a sustainable footing and meet future challenges.

### Mental health

Improving outcomes and experiences of people with mental health problems.

### Integrated care

Giving people the support they need and removing disjointed care.

### Cancer

Making sure everyone with cancer receives care, support and treatment.

### Urgent and emergency care

Ensuring patients get the right care whenever they need it.

### Primary care

Offering patients a wider choice of personalised health services.

### Health inequalities improvement

Tackling health inequalities and advancing equality and diversity across the NHS.

### NHS IMPACT

The new, single, shared NHS improvement approach.

### NHS @home

Providing better connected, more personalised care in homes and care homes.

## News and blogs

### Play Well: improving children’s healthcare through play

22 October 2025

Ellen Duke and McKenzie

- Children and young people

Ellen Duke – Deputy Director of Children and Young People’s Nursing at NHS England – and McKenzie – Youth Advisor to the Play Taskforce – explain how the newly launched Play well – Toolkit for health play services for England can support services to make a huge difference for children. Play for children in healthcare matters \[…\]

- #### How acting as an anchor employer can help the NHS address health inequalities in coastal communities

22 October 2025

Cicely Ryder-Belson

- Healthcare inequalities
- #### NHS to roll out first long-acting injection to prevent HIV

17 October 2025

- Long term conditions

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