4 May 2018

Powerful Patients, Paperless Systems: How new technology can renew the NHS

Powerful Patients, Paperless Systems: How new technology can renew the NHS
Centre for Policy Studies, 1 May 2018
  • The basis of this report, written by Alan Mak MP with a foreword by Jeremy Hunt MP,  is that there is an historic opportunity to strengthen the NHS, empower patients and support doctors through the use of technology. It argues that the NHS must be paperless and wholly digital.
  • "New apps and messaging services must be introduced to allow doctors and nurses to communicate more easily; the NHS must invest heavily in incubating new innovations; and NHS staff must be up-skilled to use new technologies as automation, virtual reality." 
  • Inlcudes a case studies of medCrowd - a messaging technology for health and care teams all over the world.