*UKHotViewsExtra* A major tilt towards technology in the NHS

Prime Minister Keir Starmer has pledged the "biggest reimagining of our NHS since its birth" in a shake-up that prioritises wide-scale digital transformation of healthcare.

He revealed the government is developing a new 10-year plan to radically reform the NHS, describing it as "so different from anything that has gone before". The plan will be framed around three shifts in approach: 1) moving from an analogue to a digital NHS; 2) moving more care from hospitals to communities; and 3) moving from sickness to prevention.

The speech followed the publication of Lord Darzi's investigation of the state of the NHS in England. The investigation concludes that the NHS is in serious trouble and it’s imperative to turn the situation around. The investigation says many of the measures needed to tackle the current situation are already well known and can be found in parts of the NHS today. Good practice exists, but it is not consistent across the NHS.

While admitting that it will take years to address these problems, the investigation identifies several key themes for how to repair the NHS, including the need for a “major tilt towards technology to unlock productivity”. It says the NHS is still only in the “foothills of digital transformation” and digital maturity across much of the health sector remains low.

The report highlights the need for the NHS to make more of its rich datasets, embrace the AI revolution in healthcare, improve the utilisation of the NHS App, and make it easier for innovative start-ups to scale in the sector. 

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Posted by Dale Peters at '15:47' - Tagged: nhs   strategy   policy   government   healthcare   digital+transformation