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The Health and Care Act 2022 finally took effect, putting integrated care systems on a statutory footing. The Department of Health and Social Care published ‘A plant for digital health and social care’ rounding up recent health tech plans for cloud computing, electronic patient records, shared care records, virtual wards, and the NHS App.
The Tony Blair Institute for Global Governance argued more should be done to digitise the NHS, and parties should agree a long-term strategy for doing this, in cooperation with users. CliniSys and Sectra announced significant wins for their flagship WinPath Enterprise and Sectra One Cloud solutions.
Scotland published the Bill that will enable the creation of its radical National Care Service, to try and end the postcode lottery of social care, and encourage greater integration with the NHS. Opposition parties and unions condemned the move.
In England, the government took a different tack to health and care integration, and announced yet another round of pilot projects, focused on facilitating discharge from hospital. Areas that want to be an ‘integration frontrunner’ have until the end of the month to apply. Also, don’t miss our roundup from NHS Confed Expo.
The raw politics of the NHS were on display in Liverpool, as politicians, NHS leaders, and think-tanks debated current crises and future plans at NHS Confed Expo. The Department of Health and Social Care published the final version of the NHS data strategy, ‘Data saves lives’.
Homerton Healthcare made a significant move on cloud computing, by announcing that it will migrate its enterprise imaging to Sectra One Cloud. And the Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust announced that it will run one of the biggest virtual wards in the country using technology from Dignio.
Healthcare Roundup 1 July 2022