Para 1.18.
The connecting of home-based and wearable monitoring equipment will increasingly enable the NHS to predict and prevent events that would otherwise have led to a hospital admission. This could include a set of digital scales to monitor the weight of someone post-surgery, a location tracker to provide freedom with security for someone with dementia, and home testing equipment for someone taking blood thinning drugs. Currently available technology can enable earlier discharge from hospital and transform people’s lives if it is connected to their Personal Health Record (PHRs) and integrated into the NHS' services. We will support advances in these care models over the next five years. To do so requires major work to digitise community services, as set out in Chapter Five. As well as deploying technology to support community staff, we will expand the scope of the existing Community Dataset to standardise information across the care system and integrate it with Local Health Care Records (LHCRs).
Outrageous reply from MP/Government Minister. This is a bit long, but worth reading as a classic example of political buck-passing!
Please take part in the NHS England Consultation!
A short explanation of the Primary Care Auto Switch-On and access to digital primary care records within NHS England.
