Med-Tech Innovation August 10, 2020
Rowan Pritchard Jones, medical director at St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, says COVID-19 has provided an all-too real use case for video consultation in the NHS, but the power it gives patients over their own care will ensure it survives long after the pandemic.
Across healthcare, trusts are using all sorts of different platforms for video conferencing. This year, the NHS has conducted more remote working than it ever has before. Perhaps an unintended consequence of COVID-19 has been the rise and accelerated adoption of video consultations at trusts, GP practices and clinics across the country.
Adopting video is something that we at St Helens and Knowsley (STHK), came to independently some time ago. Before I...