NHS: Innovation and Telemedicine

(asked on 17th January 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to (a) assess the potential merits of introducing (i) new health technologies and (ii) virtual wards and (b) challenge outdated practices in the NHS.


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Will Quince
This question was answered on 24th January 2023

A plan for digital health and social care, published June 2022, sets out how we plan to help systems to digitise, connect and transform, outlining how the delivery of health and social care will change, taking forward what we have learned from tech providers from across the world. This includes supporting the uptake of digital health technologies, adoption of which varies across the National Health Service. NHS England is working with the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, to speed up access for patients to those technologies that are proven to be safe and effective. We also set out our plans for virtual wards, which are helping patients be treated and monitored at home, thereby improving the experience of care and freeing up beds in hospitals for those people that need them most. As of November 2022 there are 115 tech enabled virtual wards live covering 35 of 42 integrated care systems.

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