Successive Governments have attempted digital transformation of the NHS. Progress has been slow and uneven, and there is now substantial variation between organisations. This attempt has the potential to be different, with clear intentions and funding to address factors that have frustrated progress in the past. These include the preponderance of “legacy” IT in the NHS, the skills of the workforce, and the challenges of building an inclusive digital health service. The Government will only su...

Successive Governments have attempted digital transformation of the NHS. Progress has been slow and uneven, and there is now substantial variation between organisations. This attempt has the potential to be different, with clear intentions and funding to address factors that have frustrated progress in the past. These include the preponderance of “legacy” IT in the NHS, the skills of the workforce, and the challenges of building an inclusive digital health service. The Government will only succeed this time if it can respond robustly to all of these challenges. (Paragraph 12) Innovation in digital healthcare Type: conclusion | Number: 1 | Response status: under_consideration Government response: We have a coherent policy in place to ensure positive patient outcomes, with a suite of features planned which will be refined, expanded, and modified as we conduct more user research, make discoveries, and examine usage data to tell us what features really are the most useful and impactful f