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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.

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National Cancer Plan

The National Cancer Plan sets out the government’s ambitions to improve cancer survival, treatment and quality of life.

Key commitments:

  • meet cancer waiting times standards by 2029
  • improve cancer survival rates
  • improve quality of life for those diagnosed with, treated for or living with cancer

The ambition is that by 2035, more people will survive cancer or live well with it – delivering the fastest improvement in survival this century.

Read the National Cancer Plan

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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.

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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.

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.

Primary care

Offering patients a wider choice of personalised health services.

NHS IMPACT

Delivering continuous improvement across the NHS.

NHS @home

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

News and blogs

Health and care professionals should feel empowered to promote physical activity to their patients, and this is how we can support them

In this blog shared for World Cancer Day, Zoe Merchant, AHP Clinical Lead for the Prehab4Cancer Programme and Jack Murphy, Prehab4Cancer Programme Manager for GM Active consider physical activity as a tool for supporting people to prepare for and recover from surgery and cancer treatment. Empowering healthcare professionals to promote physical activity to their patients […]