How data can help make ‘care closer to home’ a reality
Digital Health February 21, 2024
Poor quality data is partly to blame for the failure to shift care out of hospitals and into the community. But simple steps can make data an enabler of change, writes The King’s Fund’s Danielle Jefferies
Care ‘closer to home’ is the way forward for health and care services in England. For the last 30 years, policy makers and system leaders have had a vision to deliver more care via primary care services, community care services, public health, and social care services, rather than via hospitals services. However, as a new report from The King’s Fund highlights, there has been a systematic failure to turn this vision into reality, and data has played a part in this failure.
To make...