State of health and care: The NHS Long Term Plan after Covid-19

However, those plans have been severely disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic. Our new analysis shows the scale of the damage done by the pandemic across several major health conditions.

We recommend a package of six ambitious changes to ‘build back better’. These policies are designed to do three things.

• First, they intend to ensure the pandemic does not cause lasting damage to healthcare services for future generations.
• Second, they look to bring in areas – like social care and public health – that are not covered in The NHS Long Term Plan, but which Covid-19 has harshly reminded us are integral to healthcare.
• Third, they look to capture the innovations that occurred during the pandemic.

Together, our recommendations form a £12 billion blueprint to ‘build back better’ health and care.