INSIGHT AND OPINION
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In conversation with… Lisa Emery, CIO at The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
We spoke to Lisa Emery about her “bonkers” journey to CIO, why the NHS’s paperless vision is unrealistic, and the one thing the NHS can do to make digital a reality.
In conversation with… Yinka Makinde, Head of Innovation at NHSX
In the first of our “In conversation with…” series, we ask Yinka Makinde, Head of Innovation at NHSX, about her career to date, her theory of why NHSX was set up, and what the NHS needs to do to make digital a reality.
A digital solution for elective recovery in the NHS
Managing elective recovery is a complex process after a serious health crisis with a very tired and reduced workforce. Dr Jo Garland discusses key challenges to elective recovery, and technologies that can support this objective.
How to improve hospital portering
Phone calls, bleeps, paper and visits to portering stations are inefficient ways to manage hospital portering, and can have a negative impact on patient flow. Infinity’s hospital portering management solution allows health and care staff to make requests from anywhere using any device.
WhatsApp being down doesn’t have to be a patient safety issue
When WhatsApp went down, a tweet from an NHS doctor revealed the serious and potentially dangerous consequences of losing it for just a few hours. Dr Jo Garland discusses how to ensure losing WhatsApp isn’t a patient safety issue in the future and shares a crucial alternative to instant messaging apps.
“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Outdated data standards are supporting systemic racism in the NHS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 is the NHS still using paper?
In 2013, the UK Government set out a goal that would see a paperless NHS by 2018. Not only was a migration away from paper towards digital tools going to save the British taxpayer over £1.8 billion, it was also going to maximise efficiency and promote better outcomes for all involved.