Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Matt Hancock's speech at NHS Expo 2018, 6 September 2018
- The SOS outlines the issues around healthTech across the NHS as he sees them, and his future plans on how to fix it.
- In his speech the SoS announced the formation of a HealthTech Advisory Board chaired by Dr Ben Goldacre, which will report directly to him, consisting of tech experts, clinicians and academics.
- ... the NHS is at the same moment the world’s biggest opportunity for saving lives through modern technology, and the world’s most frustrating place to work for its IT.
- ... the net result is not just scarce resources wasted but countless hours of clinical staff spent trying to work broken systems, patients being given sub-optimal care because the systems didn’t communicate, and ultimately lives lost.
- We must harness the power of peoples’ innovation - in a full spectrum from the most mundane to the most exciting. From basic IT to advanced AI.
- And here’s how we’re going to do it, in six parts.
- First: Talk to each other
- Next: buy the right stuff
- Third: HealthTech and the cutting edge
- Fourth: Backing the NHS to succeed
- part five: a new skillset
- my final point: culture change
