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2025/26 priorities and operational planning guidance
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Our [national planning guidance for 2025/26](https://www.england.nhs.uk/operational-planning-and-contracting/) sets out the priorities for the NHS to transform services, cut waiting times and improve care for our patients across England.
Reforming elective care for patients
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Our new plan sets out [how the NHS will reform elective care services](https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/reforming-elective-care-for-patients) and meet the 18 week referral to treatment standard by March 2029.
### [Digital transformation](https://www.england.nhs.uk/digitaltechnology/)
Helping health and care professionals communicate better.
### [Elective care](https://www.england.nhs.uk/elective-care/)
How we are improving experience and giving people choice and control for elective care services.
### [Workforce](https://www.england.nhs.uk/ltwp/)
How we can put the NHS workforce on a sustainable footing and meet future challenges.
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The new, single, shared NHS improvement approach.
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1 in 7 NHS staff (14.38%) experienced physical violence from patients, their relatives or other members of the public in 2024, according to the latest annual NHS staff survey. The report reveals attacks on staff has increased since 2023 (13.88%) – though numbers are below the record levels seen between 2020 to 2022 during and \[…\]
* #### [NHS slashes tests and checks waits to 5-year low](https://www.england.nhs.uk/2025/03/nhs-slashes-tests-and-checks-waits-to-5-year-low/)
13 March 2025
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* #### [Thousands of NHS patients to benefit from ‘take at home’ multiple sclerosis tablet in European first](https://www.england.nhs.uk/2025/03/thousands-of-nhs-patients-to-benefit-from-take-at-home-multiple-sclerosis-tablet-in-european-first/)
12 March 2025
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