NHS: Innovation

(asked on 15th October 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the effect on the ability of the NHS to adopt new technologies to improve patient outcomes of changes in the level of its funding.


Answered by
Matt Hancock Portrait
Matt Hancock
This question was answered on 23rd October 2018

We are committed to harnessing the opportunities of new technologies to enable the National Health Service to become the most advanced health system in the world. This is one of my top three priorities, and half a billion pounds has been made available via sustainability and transformation partnerships to catalyse the rollout of innovative technology to save more lives and support staff in the NHS.

On 17 October, the Department published its vision for digital, data and technology in health and care, outlining what is needed to enable the system to make the best use of technology to support preventive, predictive and personalised care.

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