Providers Deliver: 10-year health plan trailblazers

On 3 July 2025, the Department of Health and Social Care published the 10-year health plan (10YHP) for England. This has set the strategic direction for healthcare over the coming decade, committing to major reform of the NHS. 

The plan outlines an ambition to better integrate health and social care services, strengthen neighbourhood working and prioritise multidisciplinary working to bring healthcare ‘closer to home’. 

This new three-part podcast series from NHS Providers highlights how trusts across England are already rising to the challenge of the 10YHP, delivering on its ambitions through innovative, joined-up approaches to service delivery. 

Across the series, we hear from five trusts who are leading the way. They share how their innovative approaches to healthcare delivery are making a real difference to patients, families and service users. 

In episode one, We can actually do this! NHS Providers chief executive Daniel Elkeles introduces the podcast series and sets the context. This first episode explores two case studies – Somerset NHS Foundation Trust and Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust – and highlights innovative, collaborative approaches to improving population health.  

These integrated care models aim to reduce barriers between patients and clinicians, ensure timely access to the right support, and strengthen partnerships with the voluntary sector. The episode showcases how frontline services are working together to deliver holistic, community-based mental health care. 

In episode two, Relationships at the heart of it, we highlight two more compelling case studies – Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust. This episode demonstrates how collaborative care models and digital innovation are transforming patient outcomes and workforce efficiency across organisational boundaries. 

In our final episode, Making the three shifts business as usual, we showcase our final case study – Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust. It explores how the trust transformed mental health care in the north east by embedding support into primary care, guided by patient feedback and community collaboration, leading to better access to care, fewer referrals, and a more preventative, empowering model.