New measures in the White Paper include:

• Shifting expenditure from spending on hospitals to spending on care closer to home and on preventative services
• New responsibilities placed on local councils and the NHS to work together to provide joined up care plans for those who need them.
• Bringing some specialties out of the hospital nearer to people including dermatology, ENT, orthopaedics and gynaecology
• Introducing a new generation of community hospitals that will provide diagnostics, minor surgery, outpatient facilities and access to social services in one location.
• Pilot a new NHS “Life Check” to assess people's lifestyle risks, the right steps to take and provide referrals to specialists if needed.
• Give patients a guarantee of registration onto a GP practice list in their locality and simplifying the system for doing this
• Introducing incentives to GP practices to offer opening times that respond to the needs of patients in their area
• Increasing the quantity and quality of primary care in under served, deprived areas through nationally supported procurement of new capacity with contracts awarded by PCTs
• Supporting people to self care by trebling the investment in the Expert Patient Programme
• Developing an “information prescription” for people with long term health and social care needs and for their carers, investing in professional education and skills development
• Providing a Personal Health and Social Care Plan as part of an integrated health and social care record
• More support for carers including improved emergency respite arrangements and the establishment of a national helpline for carers.
• Extension of direct payments and piloting of Individual Budgets for social care

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