RE: Game changing news coming, NHS contract Imminent?23 Aug 2024 12:39
By Feedback Medical CEO, Dr Tom Oakley
published on 22 August, that's yesterday!
This week an amazing policy paper from the Tony Blair Institute (TBI) was published outlining a bold vision for the future IT infrastructure and operating model of the NHS – Preparing the NHS for the AI Era: A Digital Health Record for Every Citizen. As a contributor to the TBI paper I wanted to highlight some key elements of the vision and why I believe they will be transformational to the NHS and its patients.
Before doing so, it is worth briefly outlining the current landscape of the NHS in order to demonstrate just how transformational the proposals are.
The current NHS landscape
The NHS exists not as a single system but as hundreds of disparate care providers, each running their own IT estate. Despite patients moving between these providers, the data held by each provider is not readily shared across their care journey. As a patient you have to repeat yourself and your medical history each and every time you interact with a new service. Whilst inconvenient, this belies a much deeper problem