NHS England chief government, Amanda Pritchard mentioned the NHS is at “a tipping level” with regards to using expertise.
Talking on the NHS Confed Expo in Manchester on 12 June 2024, Pritchard mentioned: “We now have a singular alternative to construct on what we have already got, and really revolutionise our affected person provide, giving the general public better management over their well being than ever earlier than”.
She informed delegates on the convention that the NHS App was being utilized by 34 million folks, which she mentioned equates to greater than 75% of the inhabitants and “twice the subscribers that Netflix has”.
Pritchard added that in April 2024, folks considered or modified 7.7m secondary well being appointments, ordered 3.9m repeat prescriptions and accessed 1.6m on-line consultations by the NHS App.
“We’re additionally modernising methods in order that help workers at over 90% of hospitals now have fashionable digital affected person document methods and GP practices now have cloud-based telephony methods.
“Now by rolling out the NHS federated information platform, which 43 trusts are already utilizing, now we have a reputable path to having the ability to join the a whole bunch of disparate IT methods over the subsequent few years, placing highly effective instruments within the fingers of clinicians”.
The NHSE chief government added: “Some say that the NHS is caught in an analogue previous – and positive, some bits nonetheless are – however we’re already constructing foundations that make higher care doable.
“And the planning we’re doing now to deploy further funding subsequent yr will assist us put rocket boosters below that progress, getting the essential constructing blocks proper so we will take full benefit of the info and AI revolution”.
Pritchard additionally mentioned that the NHS wanted to make it “simpler than ever to innovate”.
“Enchancment will solely take you up to now, typically actually taking alternatives, notably with expertise and with information means doing issues completely otherwise,” she mentioned, including that “expertise enabled care” is “serving to to keep away from 1000’s of pointless hospital visits, and additional plans are shaping up which may make London the primary metropolis on the earth to supply a digital first pressing and emergency care service”.
“In order we finalise the plan for extra tech funding from April, we’ll be calling on you to return ahead to check how linked methods, AI and automation couldn’t simply enhance care, however remodel it.
“On the NHS, we should all the time suppose on the particular person degree to make sure we don’t go away folks behind, and the present cyber incident in south east London exhibits we additionally should be vigilant to the worldwide threats of an web age.
“However the time to suppose large and to be radical is now, and when you try this you’ll have our backing,” Pritchard mentioned.
The NHS Confed Expo is going down on 12-13 June 2024.
