Opinion

Paperless NHS Investment Should Focus on People, Not Products

Opinion Article by Shane Tickell, CEO, IMS MAXIMS.
The UK Government's commitment to invest £4bn in technology for the NHS in England yesterday is welcomed, but the taxpayer's money needs to be spent wisely to have the anticipated impact.

NHS Must Move Beyond 19th Century Cancer Diagnostics to Save 11,000 More Lives

Opinion Article by Chris Scarisbrick, Sectra UK & Ireland.
Radical recommendations were set out by England's Independent Cancer Taskforce in July 2015. The goal: to allow an additional 30,000 patients every year to survive cancer for 10 years or more by 2020.

The Biggest Cost to Healthcare is not Learning from Best Practice

Opinion Article by Vivek Patkar, Chief Medical Officer, Deontics.
If the recent publication of the Atlas of Variation shows the human costs of unwarranted variation across the NHS; then The Kings Fund's Better Value in the NHS report showed the financial cost.

Mobile Technology - a New Infection Risk?

Opinion Article by Mike Casey, CEO of FutureNova, former NHS CIO.
Before the advent of modern medicine, a stay in hospital was a risky business - in a crowded, dirty ward, an infection could spread like wildfire. The introduction of good hygiene practices, followed by the development of penicillin, resulted in a dramatic fall in infection rates.

Driving Out Variations in Clinical Care Across the Patient Journey

Opinion Article by Robert Dunlop, Clinical Director, Elsevier Clinical Solutions.
Good care costs less, the health secretary announced. How much less? According to NHS productivity lead Lord Carter, around £5 billion a year less. That is the amount that the NHS could save if it reduced the amount of unwarranted variation in clinical care.

Redefining Technologies in the Quest for Patient Centricity

Opinion Article by Chris Scarisbrick, Sectra UK & Ireland.
The advent of the radiology picture archiving and communication system, or PACS, signalled an early and pioneering shift to digital within NHS hospitals some 15 years ago. As an NHS radiographer, and then PACS manager, during the early parts of this journey, I witnessed first-hand the end of working with restrictive light boxes and acetates, and the improved flow of information that resulted from the new technology.

UK SMEs Can Play a Crucial Role in Meeting NHS Grand Challenges

Opinion Article by Donald Kennedy, Managing Director, Patientrack.

When clinicians at Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust sought to become the first in the country to be able to predict when patients were at risk of one of the UK's most deadly conditions, the hospital turned to a small specialist UK company to enter into what would quickly become a strong collaboration.

Opinion News

Paperless NHS Investment Should Focus on People, Not Products

NHS Must Move Beyond 19th Century Cancer Diagnostics to Save 11,000 More Lives

The Biggest Cost to Healthcare is not Learning from Best Practice

Mobile Technology - a New Infection Risk?

Driving Out Variations in Clinical Care Across the Patient Journey

Redefining Technologies in the Quest for Patient Centricity

UK SMEs Can Play a Crucial Role in Meeting NHS Grand Challenges

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