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<p>The Government expects National Health Service leaders, clinicians and experts
to develop the long-term plan to ensure that the NHS can cope with the serious demand
and cost pressures it faces in the future. It will be published later this year.</p><p>
</p><p>We have agreed with the NHS a set of six principles and five financial tests
which must underpin the plan in order to meet the high expectations people have for
the NHS now and in the future. Spreading best practice so people get the right treatment
wherever they live; eliminating the unnecessary and unacceptable variation in quality
of care we see today across the country; building the workforce we need for the future;
and embracing the opportunities of technology will ensure the needs of rural communities
are accounted for in the long-term plan.</p>
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