UK NHS Urged To ‘Bottle COVID-19 Spirit’ For Future Health System Change
BY ASHLEY YEO Executive Summary Residual resistance to digital health care solutions in the UK NHS disappeared “almost overnight” when COVID-19 compelled the rapid adoption of new tools to meet the surge in demand and cope with supply challenges.
44 / September 2020
Adoption of digital technology tools by the UK National Health Service was impressively rapid – “almost overnight” – when COVID-19 struck, in the view of Association of British HealthTech Industries digital lead Andrew Davies. What prompted such a change, when nothing comparable in NHS technology adoption, has been seen before? he asked during the association’s webinar on the NHS’s planned care restart, post coronavirus. This spirit of readiness to embrace positive change is to be welcomed, says industry. “If we can bottle it, we should use it in all aspects of the health and care service moving forward,” said Louise Jopling, of the Academic Health Sciences Networks (AHSNs), the 15-member organization that acts as a bridge between industry and the NHS to facilitate innovation adoption locally and nationally.
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