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We're delighted to be working with the NHS on transforming digital education to change patient health outcomes. Please see video that gives you insight into the ambitions of the work Learning with Experts is doing with our partner company Polyatrics and the NHS. Thanks for this collaboration go to Professor Sir Muir Gray, Professor Joe Harrison (NHS App Lead) and Dr Sissou Pani Sissou (NHS Herts). Mark Fishleigh Justin Cooke Alison Forrestal Alan Naismith David Armfield Daniel Rosewarne Rob Ludgate Stephanie Trowell Yahya Logde Muhammad James Paul Crabtree Steve Thompson Sophie de Schwarzburg-Gunther Maccs Pescatore Jonathan Cole Jack Rolstone-Smith The Oxford Trust

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Key Learnings from the Healthcare Partnership Network Event I recently attended the two-day Healthcare Partnership Network event in Manchester. This networking and shared learning experience brought together over 150 senior leaders from the NHS and the sector's most transformative suppliers. Some reflections: Data: Crucial but Not Enough While data is essential for healthcare transformation, it's only part of the equation. True progress requires building robust infrastructure, deploying intelligent software and applications, and fostering a culture that embraces change. A quote that resonates from the event is: "For every £1 invested in technology, an equal investment in people and culture is vital to cultivate an environment primed for adoption." This makes perfect sense, but it's often overlooked. We tend to see far greater investment in developing innovations than in their implementation. The Human Touch Remains Paramount Whilst innovations like ambient AI voice recognition, and generative AI models are already making a positive impact by streamlining clinical workflows, enhancing decision support, and improving back-office functions, the human element of change remains paramount. Placing the needs of clinicians and patients at the heart of everything is critical to finding the right balance and making the most of the opportunities technology brings. Clarity is Key: at the very foundation, it's vital to be clear on the problem you're trying to solve. Opportunities and Challenges The future holds both opportunities and challenges. One of biggest risk I see is fragmentation and duplication: It’s is very common to see several services and organisations in the same ICS footprint deploying different solutions to address the same problems. While AI's potential is significant, its adoption in healthcare lags behind other sectors due to legacy systems, skill gaps, regulatory complexities, and fragmentation. We must ensure we're doing the basics well before diving headfirst into advanced technologies. #healthcare #NHS #digitaltransformation #innovation #collaboration Healthcare Partnership Network (HPN)

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How is digital innovation impacting roles, responsibilities and the overall patient experience within healthcare? Our latest study – Healthcare Delivery on the Digital Frontline – in which we partnered with iGov Survey to establish, in real terms, what digitalisation means for NHS staff. Access the full research paper here >> https://hubs.ly/Q02zNXwM0

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Off the back of #birminghamtechweek today's HealthTech 2024 session explored the strategic vision, challenges and vision for healthtech in the region. The healthcare tech space is moving rapidly but within a complex, fragmented sector facing multiple needs and demands - some of which include: 👉 The NHS app will eventually become the "digital front door" 👉 Patients, not just providers, are looking for good outcomes & accessing digital or online platforms needs to be as streamlined as 'doing an M&S online shop!" 👉 Solutions have to focus on systems being able to talk to each other (aka interoperability) 5 fast facts health care tech facts about the West Midlands 1️⃣ Virtual wards exist (hospitals from home where patients get hospital-level care at home safely and in familiar surroundings) 🏡 2️⃣ 25% of the population of the West Midlands have no access to digital tools & 25% of the population has poor access to digital tools. Equity in digital inclusion is critical. ⚖ 3️⃣ Yet... 200 digital health tech companies in the West Midlands exist, the largest proportion in the UK. 📈 4️⃣ Out of 28,000 healthcare apps under 20% meet the requirements to be used by the NHS 🔑 5️⃣ The digital divide is widening - young people want faster, virtual answers to their problems. Older people want to see people. The sector wants to make sure everyone has personalised healthcare... 🤝 What today's session highlighted is the complexity of health within a fragmented system... but populated by energy and appetite to create a simple, clear and targeted message about the future of healthcare tech and outcomes. The question for this group is how can the expertise and knowledge within the West Midlands play a part in that 🤔 Thank you to TechWM for bringing together the strategic, innovation and policy voices from across the health tech ecosystem. Great to meet so many of you including B13.ai, ORCHA, Mubashhar Asif.

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How can the NHS lead the world in healthcare innovation? The Innovation Ecosystem report, published today by NHS England sets out recommendations to transform care delivery and boost UK life sciences. Read our response ⬇️

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5 tips to help get your healthtech product to market, fast. Our associate director of NICE Advice, Andrew Walsh shares his top tips for healthtech companies, helping them chart a clear path from innovation to NHS adoption. 🔗https://lnkd.in/duzudjm5

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🚨 A Call for the #NHS #IT community to respond to the Darzi report. A Call to ‘go to the Zone of Uncomfortable Debate- ZOUD’. Professor Joe McDonald flags the importance of #ZOUD. Always refreshing to hear Professor Joe admitting that until people is permitted to talk about the real problems they can’t be fixed. 👉 Professor the Lord Darzi of Denham OM KBE PC FRS showed courage in pointing to the “elephants” in the room: “The NHS is in serious trouble” “A&E is in an awful state” “The CQC is not fit for purpose” *Current IT strategy in the NHS: Seems to be to carry on as we are... "leading us to a broken jigsaw of IT systems and an increasingly stagnant #EPR market". Key highlights 👇 ·       NHS IT needs its own similar rapid review of the last 15 to 20 years and it should be independently led.  ·       We need to look at how we procure things. ·       We need urgently some themes for us as a wider community to move forward with. Any thoughts? What are the "elephants" in the room in IT? Procurement is one of them? https://lnkd.in/esMxKHfN #NHSITreview #RadicalThinking #ZOUD #ITcommunity 

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🚀 Updates from the One HealthTech Manchester Hub and our movement to increase leadership diversity in #DDaT in the #nhs. Thank you to Nosheen Hussain, who summarised our journey and the highlights of our #rewired session. Your support has been fully appreciated! Here are some key points I want to share as we continue a reflection ignited by Frank Hester's news three weeks ago (yes, we still need to make reference to this and ensure we are accountable for a cultural shift): 1. #Diversity and #inclusion do not just happen. It takes work, intention, and cultural competence. 2. Our recommendations are: 🚦 Reflect on your activity: Whether recruiting, chairing a meeting, or line managing someone with feedback, reflect on how you are doing so. Think about the language you use and be aware of your biases. Dr Rizwan Malik thanks for challenging our language and use of #unconsciousbias. Perhaps this is not unconscious anymore? --> Food for thought there! 🚦 Review recruitment and retention processes: Check your processes for both external recruitment and internal promotions. Check your use of language for job descriptions and person specifications. Challenge your HR teams to think about different audiences. 🚦 Prioritise ongoing education: Don’t stop at the ‘mandatory’ diversity training; make space and time for follow ups and team discussions. By recognising differences, we will increase the cultural competence of individuals and teams, as well as increase the curiosity of people about how others work and learn rather than judging. 👉 Check out our blog here and let us know what you think: https://lnkd.in/e8TBzY4M We have engaged with more teams and organisations after our experience at #rewired and planning new collaborations in the coming months. We look forward to progressing this movement!😎 Charlotte Lewis Bernadette Clarke Nosheen Hussain Angela Maragna One HealthTech #BeDDaTChange #DDaT #leadership #digital #nhs

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On route to Digital Health Summer School. Looking forward to learning and catching up with friends. Friday at 10am I’ll be joining a panel with esteemed colleagues, Chair Shera Chok Jon Hoeksma Ola Zahran Lisa Emery and Nic Fox Shera will be asking - How do NHS organisations manage contracts effectively and ethically ? With our increasing reliance and spend on technology, how do ensure equity and diversity are included in discussions and not just a tick-box exercise ? What can commissioners, industry leaders and trusts do to drive change through commercial and digital channels ? What questions do Boards, staff and service users need to ask about digital products, suppliers and contracts ? A highly relevant topic that we should all be having with our organisations. Thanks to Liz Ashall-Payne and Rob Knott FCIPS for your important contributions to my research for this. #DHSUMMERSCHOOL2024

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Exclusive: Digital Health News can reveal the membership of the key group leading strategy on data and technology for the NHS 10 year health plan. Full story 👉 https://ow.ly/hrcy50Untmy

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I wrote a blog! Please give this a read to find out more about the support that we can offer at HI NENC and also to learn about the exciting work we are doing with the Tees Valley Innovation Challenge Programme 💡🎉

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The Darzi report called for the NHS app to deliver a ‘digital-first’ experience and scale beyond the 20% of people using it monthly. The problem is despite the huge number of citizens who have registered, the NHS app is a product for people who have a chronic condition. That’s why the usage numbers are what they are… As for the rest of us, we only (thankfully) touch the health service on the odd occasion when we need to… So there’s no reason to engage regularly. I suspect it’s the same problem every digital health application is trying to crack. So what’s the solution? Is there a solution? The obvious answer is to integrate more primary and secondary care services, and with their platform approach that’s the direction the NHS is heading. The challenge is one of agility (it takes ages to get these services onboarded), and interoperability - secondary care infrastructure makes the integration of services painful at best. If the app achieved these things it would be a massive step forward, but would regular usage increase hugely? Afterall, it would still be an app for sick people. And thankfully not all of us are sick all the time. I think a shift in product ‘mindset’ is needed if the app is to be relevant and useful to more people more of the time. The NHS app needs to think, behave, and have features akin to a mass D2C brand. It needs to become a health and wellness app, not just an application for sick people. And to do that it needs to provide a first class customer experience, integrate pharmacy services, health and wellness 3rd party products, and take advantage of the huge demand in healthcare content. Is that ever achievable given the NHS app is a public service product like Gov.uk? Should we even be worrying about getting everybody using the app all the time? Or would it be better to accept that the app is never going to become the Amazon of healthcare, concentrate on the core user, and simply focus on providing brilliant, seamless access to the health service? #digitalhealth #nhsapp

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The Darzi Report is a roadmap to a future-ready NHS. At CLEO Systems, we’re committed to turning the Darzi Report’s vision into reality. By embracing digital-first solutions, we’re helping Urgent Care providers: ✅ Simplify care pathways ✅ Enhance patient engagement ✅ Drive early intervention and prevention Together, we can build a more connected, sustainable healthcare system that delivers better outcomes for all. Find out how our solutions align with the Darzi Report goals: https://ow.ly/XExk50UqtS2 #nhs #nhsuk #darzireport #cleosystems #urgentcare #healthcare #technology

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Commenting on The Health Innovation Network’s Impact Report 2023-24, Dr Vin Diwakar, Interim Director of Transformation for NHS England, said: “The latest report highlights that investing in innovation, research and life sciences can significantly enhance patient outcomes and benefit the UK economy and society.” Read the report: https://lnkd.in/eKYmriY2

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