Interesting read22 Apr 2025 16:44
"For example, we tend to think of the NHS App as some interesting side event, whereas actually it could be the fulcrum of an entirely different operating model for the NHS, where we utilise digital pathways much more and empower people to manage their own health.........The digital health record will enable us to have these new models of care, like if you want to extend Pharmacy First, or have integrated neighbourhood teams.
You can’t have Boots thinking they’re managing your blood pressure over here and your GP thinking they’re managing it over there, and each working on two different records.
You can’t have integrated neighbourhood teams where social workers are going in one day and health visitors the next, and then a GP, and they’re not working off the same record. They’re clearly not a team unless they’re using the same record...We need a digital health record to keep all that information together in one place.
OneLondon, Manchester and the other shared care records go some way to delivering the properties of a digital health record, but there are things that they don’t do.
For example, I may be able to review my health records through the NHS App, but I can’t then share them with trusted third parties to help me manage my COPD or diabetes or blood pressure.
If we want to be able to use more of these services, you need something pulling it all together. It is completely critical to changing the operating model of the NHS.
Worth a red as i believe they are talking about a solution which is ( to a greater degree) offered by FDBK.
https://www.digitalhealth.net/2025/03/charlotte-refsum-digital-health-records-are-critical-to-changing-the-nhs/