Plan for the best, prepare for the worst?
Prime minister Theresa May and NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens launched the long-awaited NHS Long Term Plan on Monday. There is a lot to like in a document that lays out a new service...
#EHW2018: Sort out ‘bog standard’ IT; plan for the future
This year’s e-Health Week 2018, organised by HIMSS UK, heard that the NHS is to get a new ten-year plan that will be “digitally enabled at its heart”; but to deliver, it will need to...
How technology can help improve the patient experience
What is patient experience? What do we mean by ‘patient experience’? Respected patient experience body The Beryl Institute defines patient experience as: “The sum of all interactions, shaped by an organisation’s culture, that influence patient...
Tim Kelsey leaves NHS England to play a new tune with the same notes down under
So. Farewell then. Tim Kelsey, director of patients and information at NHS England, and the driving force behind NHS technology plans, will be off to Australia and the private sector. He tells us he made...
Your NHS Needs You!
Last week the BBC reported that the Welsh Conservative party would introduce a £10 fine for patients who frequently miss NHS hospital appointments, should they win power at next year’s assembly election. This view has...
UK healthcare blog round-up
There are roughly two million different opinions on how to run the NHS, and there are some fascinating healthcare blogs to add to the debate. Here are a selection of some of those that are...
Healthcare technology marketing: How to go from B2B to B2C
Once labelled the most under-utilised resource in healthcare, patients are starting to be seen as part of the solution for troubled healthcare economies. The use of technology is seen as the enabler to a revolution...
Is technology getting its fair share of NHS cash?
Round two of David Cameron’s Nursing Technology Fund was opened by NHS England this week, meaning that trusts will now be competing for a share of the latest £35m instalment. Specifically designed to help nurses...
NHS five-year plans – the glaring omission
Place the funding headlines and the £30bn funding shortfall to one side and there are in fact some very positive ideas and suggestions in NHS England’s new five year strategy. There has been a long...
The next general election – can we keep the public pound on NHS IT?
Scotland’s referendum may have kept journalists busy for the first few weeks of September, but, with a decision now reached, NHS funding in England has already returned to the mainstay of national headlines. It is...
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