NHS ENGLAND AND NHS IMPROVEMENT
Delivering
patient-based systems | Daniel Hallen | NHS England & Improvement every single person who has worked utterly tirelessly for the last 12 months . We ' re not at the end of that journey yet , but what is clear is how closely and well people work together .
" If anything , our strategic aims and intentions have expanded to include COVID-19 specific responses to handle the circumstances . But it ' s really shone a light on the capability of what digital can do in healthcare , and can continue to do in a space where pandemic distancing rules have changed again ."
The adoption of telehealth and remote monitoring have hugely increased in the last 12 months , demonstrating the benefits of this technology . “ I have a device in my chest that previously would have involved three or four trips every year to the hospital for check-ups ” Hallen says . “ The results were downloaded from the system , I ’ d sit and chat with clinicians and there ’ s the time spent getting there and back . Now this is remotely downloaded every night from a device by the side of my bed that ' s about the size of the box that you might get a smartphone in . It analyses data automatically and alerts the clinicians if there are unusual issues .
412 April 2021