Year published: 2022
The CSP has submitted evidence to the Health and Social Care Committee’s Independent Expert Panel’s evaluation of progress the government has made against in commitments on the digitisation of the NHS.
The Panel’s evaluation covers nine government commitments related to the digitisation of the NHS across four main policy areas, including care of patients and service users; health of the population; cost and efficiency of care and workforce literacy and the digital workforce.
In its submission, the CSP has recommended:
- Government commitments must be mindful of all sectors and professions in health and social care, with recommendations inclusive of all users
- Government-selected expert panels should represent the workforce that they are supposed to serve. They should not be dominated by clinicians from one profession (i.e. medicine) at the expense of other (e.g. nurses, midwives, AHPs including physiotherapists, pharmacists etc.)
- Funding to support implementation of basic digital and data infrastructure is essential to meet even the simplest of commitments
- Investment in the current workforce is essential to overcome the challenges and barriers to digitisation in the NHS
- Investment must be accessible to all sectors and not further emphasise growing budget gaps
- Commitments must be specific, measurable, achievable, and realistic.
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