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“What Good Looks Like” in practice
NHSX’s “What Good Look Like” (WGLL), is intended to provide a “North Star” for Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) developing their strategies. Here, we discuss five of the seven areas from the WGLL framework where Infinity Health could make a meaningful difference, and how.
Building a world class team to solve a long standing problem
In this episode of The Business of Healthcare podcast, Elliott Engers and host Tara Humphrey discuss how to create a world class team, building a commercially successful business, and the perfect customer.
Was the Health and Social Care Act as bad as we thought?
With commentators scrutinising the act for a supposed erosion of the NHS’s core value - free universal provision at the point of delivery - nearly a decade later we ask: was it really as bad as we thought?
Outdated data standards are supporting systemic racism in the NHS
The ethnicity data used in the NHS is far from adequate, often conflating nationality with race and providing vague and arbitrary categories to choose from. This is contributing to systemic racism in the NHS.
Why the NHS needs to move to digital task management now
Following a year of unthinkable strain on the NHS, there is consensus now, more than ever, that healthcare workers deserve more support. It’s clear to me that a move towards the digitisation of clinical and operational tasks will assist in facilitating what has now become a necessity.
What the new Health Secretary means for digital health
A former minister for digital policy, Matt Hancock’s appointment came at a pivotal time in digital healthcare reform. And so did his resignation. So, what will the appointment of Sajid Javid as the new Health Secretary spell for digital transformation in the NHS?
Digital health: not just for global pandemics
In this lively piece written for the NHS Innovation Accelerator, on which he is a Fellow, our Founder and CEO Elliott Engers talks about the possibilities for the use of digital technologies in healthcare beyond the COVID-19 pandemic, and why we can’t go back to the way things were.
Patient experience - a building block for digital healthcare
The experience of my friend, and an NHS patient, Sue, has reinforced my view that there has never been a more urgent time to upgrade the tools staff are using to make their jobs less complicated and stressful, and more efficient.
How virtual wards can help reduce the NHS backlog
Utilising virtual wards has the benefit of reducing delays to hospital discharges and freeing up hospital beds so more patients can be operated on, whilst still supporting recovery in a way that is safely managed by medical professionals.
What the new NHS Integrated Care Systems need to do to be successful
An Integrated Care System – also known as an ICS – is a 2019 NHS initiative that brings together the work of primary and community healthcare stakeholders, representing an evolution from Sustainability and Transformation Partnerships (STPs) towards even closer collaboration.