4.8 One of the five tests in The NHS Long Term Plan is: "the NHS will make better use of capital investment and its existing assets to drive transformation". The NHS Long Term Plan explains that in order to achieve this transformation it will consider a number of reforms to the NHS's capital strategy to prioritise and allocate capital funding efficiently. The Department had planned to set out these reforms at the (now postponed) 2019 Spending Review.
4.9 The NHS Long Term Plan has set out new ambitions for the NHS such as digitally enabled care and local partnerships, with estate plans to include a pipeline of possible capital investments. It gives no information on the cost of delivering digitally enabled care or how it will assess these "possible capital investments".