10 Year Health Plan Hackathon

The launch of Fit for the Future: The 10-Year Health Plan for England was welcomed for its ambition but criticised for a lack of implementation detail. Success would depend not just on high-level policy intent but on widespread understanding, buy-in and practical alignment across health and care. To address this gap, we convened the Hackathon to generate open, multidisciplinary discussion, capture diverse perspectives, and build shared ownership of how the Plan could move from aspiration to reality.

Hosted by HACK and National Healthcare Mentor, the event brought together over 100 participants from across health and care, academia, local government, patients, carers and the private sector. Using thematic breakout groups and light-touch facilitation, discussions focused on four key questions: feelings about the Plan, opportunities, risks, and immediate priorities. Contributions were captured by an AI scribe, synthesised into themes, and reviewed by the organisers to create a balanced summary of views and suggested actions.

The report surfaced consensus on the importance of prevention, community-based models, and digital transformation, but also flagged deep concerns around financial architecture, workforce readiness, governance transparency and equity. It set out practical priorities including implementing year-of-care tariffs, shifting to multi-year budgets, retraining the workforce, protecting local patient voice, and embedding 90-day sprint cycles for system learning. By articulating these multidisciplinary insights, the Hackathon summary provided policymakers and system leaders with a clearer, people-centred roadmap for mobilising the 10-Year Plan.