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The NHS 10 Year Plan: An outcome-focused analysis for suppliers

12 August 20251 min read
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The NHS 10 Year Plan: An outcome-focused analysis for suppliers

​The NHS has launched a 10-Year Plan and it’s rewriting the rules for suppliers to the NHS.

If you sell to the NHS, especially in health tech, digital services, or community care, you’re not just competing on price or innovation anymore. You’re being measured by outcomes.

Can you save time, cut costs, or move care closer to home? Prove it, and you’re in.

Stotles dug into over 2,200 contracts worth £26.6 billion to create a report on what’s really happening and what to do about it.

What’s changing?

The NHS is backing three big shifts with real budget:

  • Care is moving into the community: £21.4B spent across 987 projects. Think virtual wards, home diagnostics, and place-based delivery.

  • Prevention is finally being prioritised: £2.97B in contracts focused on early intervention, genome screening, and behavioural health.

  • The analogue days are over: £2.23B awarded to digital-first solutions like EHR integration, NHS App modules, automation tools.

How to stand out

  • Link your solution to NHS targets (speed, access, outcomes)

  • Get NHS App-ready. It’s the new front door to care.

  • Show how you reduce pressure on staff or systems

  • Build with and for community providers and ICBs

  • Co-design solutions with measurable impact

Want to understand in full what your business needs to do to succeed under the NHS 10 Year Plan and access the complete data set? You can download it for free here.