Roundtable: What challenges are now emerging from the rapid digital progress in the early stages of the pandemic?

The flurry of digital activity provoked by the first wave of the pandemic often involved decisions made in extreme pressure, and in a belief that any solution was merely a stop gap. But almost two years on, those quick fixes have become business as usual and mean that downsides to rapid digitisation are now being observed. Digital Health brought together a small group for a virtual roundtable, run in association with Virgin Media Business, to discuss that complicated reality. Claire Read reports.

Like colleagues up and down the NHS, Adrian Byrne can easily illustrate just how swiftly digital solutions were implemented during the first weeks of the pandemic.

University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, at which he is...