NHS England 29 January 2018
- The Plan sets out NHS England’s proposed actions against all of the commitments in the Strategy for which it has a lead responsibility. In particular, the Plan aims to address the following three objectives:
- Facilitating earlier diagnosis and intervention.
- Improving care coordination.
- Promoting research.
- Of particular note are the following key actions:
- The continuing progress of the 100,000 Genomes Project and the concurrent development of a genomic testing strategy that will underpin the development of a new genomic medicine services for the NHS
- The development of a set of criteria that will allow NHS England to hold providers to account for the way in which they treat patients with rare diseases via a rare disease ‘insert’ to the standard NHS Contract
- The development of Rare Disease Collaborative Networks. These will be groups of providers who have a demonstrable research-active interest in a rare/very rare disease, with the aim of improving patient outcomes
NHS England 11 July 2019
- This update reviews progress against the dashboard of performance measures set out in the Plan and is in the order set out in the Plan for ease of reference.
