NHS 10 Year Plan- Fit for the Future

How ARC Yorkshire & Humber will play a pivotal role in supporting the government’s 10 Year Health Plan for England

NIHR ARC Yorkshire & Humber, along with all NIHR Infrastructure, work collaboratively to be the research arm of the nation, providing evidence-based solutions to address the health and social care needs of our local populations.

ARC Yorkshire & Humber is responsive to changing policy and has ensured that our current and future research themes and projects align with the 3 major shifts:

From hospital to community
From analogue to digital
From sickness to prevention

You can find more information about The 10 Year Health Plan for England here.

The examples below show how our projects and research are making an impact in these 3 major shift areas;

10 Year Plan Healthy Families

BABI-RSV: Evaluating RSV Immunity Based on Prematurity and Maternal Vaccine Timing

BackgroundRespiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is one of the leading causes of hospital admission in young infants. In September 2024, the UK introduced a maternal RSV vaccination programme to help protect...

From sickness to prevention

10 Year Plan Core Projects

EMBED-INH: Evidence Mobilisation to Build Effective in Integrated Neighbourhood Health

Integrated Neighbourhood Health (INH) is a strategic priority for our Integrated Care Board (ICB) and getting it right means making decisions that are grounded in the best available evidence. EMBED-INH is a...

10 Year Plan Older People

Using the new electronic frailty index (eFI2) to aid frailty identification and management in primary care

From analogue to digital

10 Year Plan Older People

Development and external validation of the electronic frailty index 2 using routine primary care electronic health record data

From analogue to digital

10 Year Plan Urgent Care

IMPACT SNAPSHOT: CUREd Data Platform for Urgent and Emergency Care

We developed the first integrated data platform tracking patient journeys across emergency care, identifying system inefficiencies and drive evidence-based service redesign....

From analogue to digital

From hospital to community

From sickness to prevention

10 Year Plan Older People

IMPACT SNAPSHOT: The Electronic Frailty Index (eFI): Transforming Care for Older People

Our Electronic Frailty Index (eFI) has revolutionised frailty identification across UK general practices, assessing 2.5 million older people in its first year and preventing an estimated 2,300 falls....

From analogue to digital

From hospital to community

From sickness to prevention

10 Year Plan Healthy Families

IMPACT SNAPSHOT: JUMP!

JUMP! Increased children's physical activity by 8.3 minutes daily (over 70 minutes weekly), showing greater impact than any comparable intervention and securing £4 million new investment....

From sickness to prevention

10 Year Plan Healthy Families

IMPACT SNAPSHOT: Bradford Clean Air Plan and BiB Breathes

The Bradford Clean Air Plan used Born in Bradford data to demonstrate pollution-health links, securing £40 million for Clean Air Zone implementation that reduced GP visits by 700 per month....

From sickness to prevention

10 Year Plan Healthy Families

IMPACT SNAPSHOT: BRUSH: Tackling Children’s Tooth Decay

We developed evidence-based solutions for school toothbrushing programs, influencing £11 million government investment to tackle tooth decay affecting 25% of five-year-olds....

From sickness to prevention

10 Year Plan Healthy Families

IMPACT SNAPSHOT: BaBi Network

Our BaBi Network is transforming maternal health research by embedding research infrastructure within routine NHS maternity services, capturing 10% of England's births and training 10% of England's midwives in research...

From analogue to digital

From sickness to prevention

10 Year Plan Mental Health

IMPACT SNAPSHOT: SCIMITAR+ Smoking Cessation Program for Severe Mental Illness

We developed tailored smoking cessation for people with severe mental illness, doubling quit rates and securing inclusion in NICE guidelines and NHS Long Term Plan....

From hospital to community

From sickness to prevention

10 Year Plan Mental Health

IMPACT SNAPSHOT: SPIDER Digital Skills Project for People with Severe Mental Illness

We identified significant digital exclusion among people with severe mental illness and developed tailored skills training to address the 42% who lack basic digital skills....

From hospital to community

From sickness to prevention

10 Year Plan Core Projects Knowledge Mobilisation & Implementation

IMPACT SNAPSHOT: Bradford’s Community Health Checks Program

We created community-led cardiovascular health screenings in trusted settings, achieving 94% participant satisfaction and identifying previously undiagnosed hypertension....

From hospital to community

From sickness to prevention

10 Year Plan Knowledge Mobilisation & Implementation Mental Health

IMPACT SNAPSHOT: UCLP-PRIMROSE Cardiovascular Disease Risk Reduction Program

We co-developed an integrated care pathway to address the 15-20 year mortality gap for people with severe mental illness, including NHS England recommended training....

From analogue to digital

From hospital to community

From sickness to prevention

10 Year Plan Mental Health Older People

IMPACT SNAPSHOT: BASIL+ Trial: Preventing Loneliness and Depression in Older People

We created an evidence-based telehealth intervention preventing loneliness in older adults, demonstrating £8 saved for every £1 invested and influencing national policy....

From analogue to digital

From hospital to community

From sickness to prevention

10 Year Plan Improvement Science Knowledge Mobilisation & Implementation

IMPACT SNAPSHOT: Martha’s Rule/Patient Wellness Questions: Early Detection of Patient Deterioration

We co-developed a simple patient self-assessment tool that predicts deterioration 24 hours in advance, now adopted nationally as part of NHS England protocol....

From hospital to community

From sickness to prevention

10 Year Plan Improvement Science Knowledge Mobilisation & Implementation

IMPACT SNAPSHOT: Reducing antibiotic resistance and improving prescribing safety

We improved antibiotic stewardship across 1,000+ GP practices, reducing overall antibiotic prescribing by 21.5% while saving £700,000 in direct prescribing costs....

From analogue to digital

10 Year Plan Urgent Care

IMPACT SNAPSHOT: Healthcall App

We showed that the Healthcall app could reduce emergency admissions from care homes by 25% through digital monitoring, potentially saving the NHS £247 million annually if scaled nationally....

From analogue to digital

From hospital to community

10 Year Plan Healthy Families

IMPACT SNAPSHOT: Child of the North and Centre for Applied Educational Research

We connected health services with educational settings to address stark regional inequalities, producing 12 evidence-based reports that influenced national policy....

From hospital to community

From sickness to prevention

10 Year Plan Healthy Families Mental Health

IMPACT SNAPSHOT: Addressing Perinatal Mental Health Inequalities

We created the "Tackling Perinatal Mental Health Inequalities Framework" addressing systemic barriers affecting 1 in 5 women, now adopted across West Yorkshire....

From hospital to community

From sickness to prevention

10 Year Plan Core Projects Knowledge Mobilisation & Implementation

IMPACT SNAPSHOT: Bradford’s COVID Scientific Advisory Group (CSAG)

We rapidly established a research-informed pandemic response group that shaped Bradford's test and trace service and addressed misinformation in diverse communities....

From sickness to prevention

10 Year Plan Core Projects Knowledge Mobilisation & Implementation

IMPACT SNAPSHOT: Developing the Co-production and Peer Research (CoPPer) network

We have established a sustainable model enabling seldom-heard communities, researchers, and policymakers to co-produce health research addressing community-identified priorities....

From hospital to community

From sickness to prevention

10 Year Plan Health Economics

IMPACT SNAPSHOT: Cardiac Rehabilitation Commissioning Model

We demonstrated that achieving a 85% cardiac rehabilitation target would prevent 49,000 hospital admissions and 19,500 deaths over 10 years, directly informing national policy....

From sickness to prevention

10 Year Plan Knowledge Mobilisation & Implementation Mental Health

IMPACT SNAPSHOT: ReQoL Mental Health Measurement Tool

We developed a recovery-focused mental health outcome measure now selected by NHS England as one of just three recommended measures for all Community Mental Health teams....

From hospital to community

From sickness to prevention

Our resources

Core Projects

Webinar Resource Pack: Neighbourhood Health Models of Care for People with Frailty

This resource pack brings together the presentation slides, webinar recording, key resources, references, and questions from the discussion to support learning, service development and evidence-informed practice.

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Health Economics Urgent Care

Emergency Care Data Set (ECDS) Report: Understanding the Non-Urgent Use of Emergency Care in Yorkshire and the Humber: An Integrated Care Board Level Analysis

In this report, our health economics theme examines the scale and distribution of non-urgent Emergency Department attendances across Yorkshire and England, exploring what the latest data tells us about who attends, when, and what this costs a system already stretched to its limits.

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Healthy Families

World-Leading Results: How Bradford’s JU:MP Programme is Transforming Children’s Physical Activity

In this blog, Dr Sally Barber's details how Bradford's community-led JU:MP programme increased children's daily physical activity by 8.3 minutes - the largest effect of any long-term population intervention globally, securing £4 million in continued funding.

Healthy Families

The Supervised Toothbrushing Toolkit

This toolkit brings together resources to help support the implementation of supervised toothbrushing programmes and clubs. There are resources for those who are responsible for commissioning new programmes, for those delivering programmes across a specific area, as well as resources for early years settings with a Supervised Toothbrushing Programme running and parents whose children are involved.

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