Thursday, 28 May 2015

EMIS Group CEO Chris Spencer has been discussing the Seven-Day NHS Pledge, a dominating healthcare headline, in his latest blog post for the Huffington Post.

With dwindling GP numbers, tight budgets and concerns over existing primary and secondary care workloads, the Seven-Day NHS Pledge has prompted the question, 'how'?

Patients with long term health conditions currently take up around 70% of the health service budget. The King's Fund estimates that by 2018 , 2.9 million peopl e will suffer from three or more long term conditions, predicating the demand on the NHS is only going to increase.

Patients with long term conditions have multiple NHS 'touch points' i.e. their care is rarely provided by just one healthcare professional but rather delivered by a team across a number of services.

Chris says " Without the systems in place to share and update patient data (with patient consent) among 'the team', there will always be inefficiency and scope to improve care - no matter how many days a week the services are offered".

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