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The Context for Yorkshire and the Humber

On July 5 1948, the brass band from Yorkshire Main Colliery trooped up to the doctor’s surgery in Edlington, South Yorkshire, and began to play. The doctor hung a Union flag out of the window and gave them all a drink. The NHS had arrived.
Dr Michael O’Donnell, the GP’s son, the Independent, 5 July 1988.

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This year will see the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the NHS. In Yorkshire and the Humber (Y&H), as elsewhere in the country, we are proud and privileged to work for a service which touches everyone in the region at some time in their life.

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But life today is very different from when the NHS was set up. Public expectations are changing; working and family lives have altered; people are living longer; and patterns of disease are changing. Technological innovations – both in terms of drug therapies and scientific advances – have transformed the ways in which we can deliver care or support people taking care of themselves.

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This report sets out the work we have been doing to take forward the review established by Lord Ara Darzi last year. The review was led by clinicians from across Y&H and examines how we can improve health and health care in the region. It sets out the Strategic Health Authority’s (SHA's) ambition to save lives and improve the care for our population over the next ten years.

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The report begins with a description of Y&H, and then outlines the process through which we carried out the review. It then describes some of the main reasons why we need to change; in particular, it outlines the main arguments for the need to improve our services.

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The report then outlines the work and recommendations of our eight Clinical Pathway Groups (CPGs), who were each asked to look at how we could make improvements across pathways for: staying healthy, maternity and newborn care, long-term conditions, children, planned care, acute episodes, mental health and end of life. The report concludes with chapters on delivery models and enablers.

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