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What exactly is healthcare trying to achieve? Will we know when we’ve got there? Professor David Haslam examines these questions and the values of our current health system in this blog on the future of healthcare.

Annual funding for the NHS is falling ever further behind increases in activity costs. The government’s promise in 2015 of an additional “£8bn” assumed heroic savings of £22bn over a five year Parliament, which health policy experts think unattainable. The NHS now has the biggest deficit in its history.

The NHS is no stranger to five or ten year plans. Today’s publication of the 'Five Year Forward View' takes its place in a lineage that includes 2009’s 'NHS 2010-2015: from good to great' and 2000’s 'NHS Plan', among a library full of other titles with similar echoes of communist tractor production.