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The NHS Plan: a plan for investment, a plan for reform

• Preface
• Foreword by the Prime Minister
• Executive summary
• Introduction by the Secretary of State
• 1 Our vision: a health service designed around the patient
• 2 The NHS now
• 3 Options for funding healthcare
• 4 Investing in NHS facilities
• 5 Investing in NHS staff
• 6 Changed systems for the NHS
• 7 Changes between health and social services
• 8 Changes for NHS doctors
• 9 Changes for nurses, midwives, therapists and other NHS staff
• 10 Changes for patients
• 11 Changes in the relationship between the NHS and the private sector
• 12 Cutting waiting for treatment
• 13 Improving health and reducing inequality
• 15 Dignity, security and independence in old age
• 16 The reform programme
• Annex 1 The public's concerns about the NHS today
• Annex 2 Modernisation action team members
• Annex 3 Department of Health Public Service Agreement
• 14 The clinical priorities