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Integrating Care Records is Good. Using Intelligence to Make them Active is Better

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07 July 2025
Alcidion Ltd Opinion Article by Dr Paul Deffley, Chief Medical Officer, Alcidion.
A single patient record already exists in the NHS. Or at least, that’s a perception shared by many. A survey of a thousand members of the public, conducted by NHS Confederation hosted organisation Understanding Patient Data, found that more than 6 in 10 UK citizens believed information on their NHS history was already collated in a single repository.
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The 10 Year Health Plan: What do We Need to Deliver?

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18 February 2025
Opinion Article by Piyush Mahapatra, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon and Chief Innovation Officer at Open Medical.
There is a new ten-year plan for the NHS. It will "focus efforts on preventing, as well as treating ill-health"; make "out of hospital care a much larger part of what the NHS does"; and "upgrade technology and digitally enabled care."

Are we talking about the 10 Year Health Plan that will be published next summer?

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Why the NHS is Seeking to Make Media Services Free for Patients

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15 October 2024
Airwave Healthcare Opinion Article by Dean Moody, Healthcare Services Director, Airwave Healthcare.
Tim Kelsey and Martha Lane Fox called for WiFi to be made available free of charge throughout the NHS back in 2015.

The vision of NHS England’s then national director for patients and information, and the former UK digital champion, was to give patients greater access to digital health apps, self-help tools, and social networks, in ways that could "support recovery and promote well-being".

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Why the NHS Needs a Transparency Revolution after Darzi

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08 October 2024
C2-Ai Opinion Article by Dr Mark Ratnarajah, NHS paediatrician and UK Managing Director for C2-Ai.
Wes Streeting wanted 'no stone left unturned' when he asked Lord Darzi to examine the current state of the NHS in England. Laudable to be sure - but we need to keep doing this at every level, and dig deeper without burdening busy teams. Here's why.
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Huge NHS Cloud Deals Mean Tough Questions: Here's What Imaging Tech Suppliers Must Prove

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27 May 2024
Sectra Opinion Article by Chris Scarisbrick, Deputy Managing Director, Sectra.
The largest public cloud projects to ever take place within the NHS are beginning. Regional procurements for public cloud hosted diagnostic imaging solutions have recently seen the earliest of adopters go-live.

Now, a tsunami is set to follow, with projects involving vast amounts of data needed for the care of millions of patients, soon to become commonplace.

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Is 'Smart Health Tech' Solving the Right Problems for the NHS?

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17 May 2024
Alcidion Ltd Opinion Article by Dr. Paul Deffley, Chief Medical Officer, Alcidion.
Where would you position the NHS in relation to other countries, when it comes to the adoption of innovative technologies to support patient care?

Recent research from Newsweek and Statista, which ranked the world’s top 'smart hospitals', placed its first NHS trust at position 72 on the list.

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Why Standards are Key to Building Trust in AI

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15 May 2024
Opinion Article by Dean Mawson, Clinical Director and Founder, DPM Digital Health Consultancy.
There's considerable interest in the potential uses of AI in healthcare at the moment; but there is also concern about the possible risks that it could pose.

Challenges include questions about data privacy and algorithmic bias, how we can make sure that AI tools are subject to robust validation and testing processes, and how to make sure they are used safely in a clinical setting.

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