Science and technologies have the potential to transform the healthcare landscape over the next 20 years. Such a transformation will be directly influenced by a range of factors including the complex, interrelated challenges plaguing the UK health system, the impact of evolving drivers of change including demographics and cultural shifts, and how health policy has been developed and implemented by successive policymakers over the years.
To understand how the future of health may look, it is vitally important to understand the underlying context of health policy, and how this is reflected within our current health system, and the work of public, private and third sector organisations, and how they have shaped the current reality of healthcare
The My healthy future series of reports presents our vision of what the future of health could look like. It also sets out the issues and actions we identified during extensive consultation which included three roundtable discussions focussed on our three key themes, and four workshops on the life stages.
Our healthy future
This summary report outlines the features of a future health system underpinned by science and technology and calls for alliances of stakeholders to support responsible design and effective delivery of health innovations. With such alliances, policy-makers can make preparations today to realise potential of new technologies – and avoid the pitfalls. In depth discussion of the areas touched on in the summary, can be found in the background reports below (all PDF downloads):
- The technologies of a healthy future
- The policy landscape
- Technologies and social impacts
- Privacy and autonomy
- Person centred care
- Overdiagnosis
We thank the WYNG Foundation for generously supporting this research programme.
Views expressed in the my healthy future documents and reports including Our healthy future do not necessarily reflect those of the WYNG Foundation.
