A new five year vision for the NHS, based around community services and placing prevention, quality and transparency at the heart of healthcare has been published by Health Minister, Lesley Griffiths.

“Together for Health” outlines the challenges facing the health service and the actions necessary to ensure it is capable of world-class performance.

It lists the factors driving the need for reform, including a rising elderly population, health inequalities, more people with chronic conditions, medical staffing pressures and some specialist services being spread too thinly.

The document sets out how the NHS will look in five years time, based around primary and community services playing a major role in delivery.