>>BBC Newsreader: Drastic changes and more money. The medicine prescribed by NHS bosses
to preserve the Health Service. The new head of NHS England wants GPs and hospitals to
operate differently and says people should take more responsibility for their health.
>>Simon Stevens: A comprehensive, tax funded National Health Service of the sort that the
nation clearly wants, remains entirely do-able even despite the difficult economic circumstances
that continue to face this country.
>>Dr Nick Harding: We worked out that if you could change what the front end of Primary
Care looked like in terms of people accessing it digitally, we could change the back end
in terms of bigger scale and also we could develop into things like Community Care so
that some of the specialised services that traditionally were delivered in hospitals
would be better delivered closer to the patient in our GP Practices.
The fact that they can get hold of us relatively easily, by phone, means that particularly
parents with young children feel much more confident about their GP Practice.
>>Carol Bernard: Before the new system, we had to go down there and sit in the surgery
and it was full of people coughing and spluttering, kids crying, and screaming. But it's so much
easier now.
>>Prof Maureen Baker: I am optimistic that if we do get the resource and the commitment
to General Practice, we will start to see things turn round.
>>Dr Andy Whitfield: The Five Year Forward View really sets out how patients should be
at the centre of health service design. This place has been designed by patients.
The cafe works because it provides a calm and supportive place for people who are having
mental health problems to come and receive support from health experts plus mutual support
from each other.
>>Kimberley: Finding this place helped me to have hope
>>Aiden : If this place wasn't here, I don't think I'd be around at all I don't think.
>>Dr Andy Whitfield: The evidence that the cafe works is based on a recognised reduction
in A&E attendance for mental health crisis; and a 33% reduction in acute hospital admission
for mental health crisis. That equates to a cost saving of £500,000 a year. The data
just shows how effective it is.
>>Helen Walker: Our health promoting school is once that views their students in a very
holistic way. We recognise that students have got all kinds of needs, not just physical,
but really around their emotional health and wellbeing. Because we know that that affects
their attainment and their success whilst they're here.
>>Maureen Jackson: We've seen all the trends from the days in the old High Schools when
it was chips and burgers and coca cola, so I've seen over the years now how it's changed
and it's good. We hide vegetables in cakes, we do chocolate and beetroot, we do courgette
ones - everybody's happy - we make wraps, we put salads in the wraps and that way gradually
introduce into their diet.
>>Chris Askew: The Five Year Forward View really sets out a framework by which we can
tackle the prevention of Type 2 Diabetes, but also providing the sort of support and
education that allows those with diabetes to be able to manage the condition really
well.
>>Prof Tim Briggs: For knee replacement, we found the same implant of a knee in one trust
at £1000 - and in another Trust it was eighteen hundred pounds - and that Trust was doing
the highest volume. And what's been interesting going around the country is that every hospital
I've been to - they all think they're getting the best deal -and they've told me they're
getting the best deal. And they clearly aren't.
So, huge amount of variation that if we sort out, we could easily save, I think, just in
orthopaedics alone across the NHS, £2 billion over five years - and I think that's a conservative
estimate.