Digital Health August 1, 2024
- The King’s Fund says that digital technology is key to achieving a ‘neighbourhood health service’
- It found that community providers experience difficulties accessing digital transformation funding
- A report calls for NHS and social care staff to be involved in developing or selecting IT systems
Digital technology is key to delivering the new government’s ambition of moving care closer to home, says a report from The King’s Fund.
In its manifesto, Labour calls for a move towards a ‘neighbourhood health service’, with resources shifted to primary care and community services so that more care can be delivered in the community.
The King’s Fund report, commissioned by software firm Nourish, says that to achieve this vision digital technologies in GPs,...