The 10 Year Health Plan for England was published on 3 July 2025.
The RCGP has responded to the plan in the media - you read our statement on a neighbourhood health service - and will continue to engage with key stakeholders to represent the profession’s voice as implementation plans develop.
Summary for members
To support members in digesting the plan and engaging with its implementation, we have produced a summary setting out the key implications for general practice.
10 Year Health Plan for England - RCGP member summary (PDF file, 565 KB)
RCGP activity to influence the plan
In preparation for the publication of the ten-year health plan for England, the RCGP engaged with its development, working to ensure the GP voice was heard.
In autumn 2024, the Government outlined the three shifts they will be prioritising as part of the plan:
- Hospital to community
- Analogue to digital
- Sickness to prevention.
The RCGP is supportive of each of these aims and believes, if well implemented, they have the potential to significantly improve care in general practice.
RCGP response to the 10 Year Health Plan consultation
In December 2024, we responded to the Government’s consultation setting out our vision for these three shifts. This followed a series of workshops with our members, and an external stakeholder roundtable including representatives from range of key organisations across the primary and community care sector.
RCGP press coverage on the 10 Year Health Plan
We have also widely promoted our messages on what we would like to see in the plan via the press, on social media and in meetings with key decision makers:
- In December, our Chair, Kamila Hawthorne wrote an op-ed for GPonline summarising our consultation response.
- In February, Kamila wrote another op-ed for the Telegraph outlining how we think the NHS can be fixed and reflecting our consultation response.
- In March, we fed into a BBC Panorama programme on the plan which cited some of our research about GP pressures.
- In April, our President, Richard Vautrey, spoke to the BBC for an in-depth BBC piece on the plan.
- In June, an op-ed from Kamila Hawthorne was published in The Telegraph exploring what we need to see in the plan to shore up general practice.
- We responded strongly to rumours in the HSJ that the plan could include a delay to previous commitments to transfer funding to primary and community care.
- We will continue to respond to announcements from the government regarding what to expect in the plan - such as the commitment to review the Carr-Hill funding formula for general practice, something the College has long called for.
Implementing an effective 10 Year Health Plan to improve patient care – RCGP recommendations
With the plan expected to be published in late June or early July, this paper summarises the RCGP’s key recommendations to Government and regional decision-makers as they refine details about how the plan will be implemented over the coming months and years.
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