The Tories and Lib Dems have guaranteed the £8bn extra of public funds by 2020 that NHS England's Five Year Forward View blueprint demands.
Douglas was helped thanks to the All Together Better partnership, part of NHS England's Vanguard programme that was ushered in last year via chief executive, Simon Stevens's Five Year Forward View blueprint policy.
At NHS England's annual general meeting last month he called for "some frontloaded investment in service transformation", as envisaged in the Five Year Forward View blueprint to safeguard the service's future.
The Five Year Forward View blueprint by NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens, which claims that the NHS could deliver £22bn of annual savings in five years' time, is the latest of a long line of reports to assert that there is scope for the NHS to make major savings.
But he added that NHS England was confident that the major changes outlined in October in its Five Year Forward View blueprint for the service's future, including an unprecedented build up of services delivered outside of hospitals, would help the NHS remain viable.
It offers no prospect of relief any time soon for an increasingly overstretched NHS except backing Stevens's Five Year Forward View blueprint to sort it all out by 2020 and hoping that further integration of health and social care also helps keep people out of hospital.
A work stream entitled "engaging people and communities" is at the heart of NHS England's work on implementing the Five Year Forward View, the blueprint for making the English health and social care system sustainable.
The NHS "five year forward" review, a blueprint for the service's future, made clear that much more work was needed to prevent strokes from occurring in the first place, she added.
Stevens identified the £8bn as the minimum extra amount the NHS would need by 2020 to help close an anticipated £30bn gap in its finances when he launched the NHS Five Year Forward View, a blueprint for its future, last October.
Addressing healthcare leaders at the King's Fund's fifth annual leadership and management summit, Hunt said the government was committed to addressing the Five Year Forward View (pdf), the blueprint for the health service put together by the NHS England chief executive, Simon Stevens.
The Five Year Forward View (5YFV) is a blueprint for NHS renewal and sustainability over the next five years, beating the politicians to the punch on their manifestos.
