Health and social care leaders set out plans to transform people’s health and improve services using technology Radical new plans to improve health outcomes and the quality of patient care through digital technology and innovation have been unveiled.
Established by the Department of Health and chaired by NHS England’s National Director for Patients and Information, Tim Kelsey, the National Information Board has set out a bold vision for how technology should work harder and better for patients and citizens by 2020.
The vision commits to giving everybody online access to their GP records, viewed through approved apps and digital platforms, by 2015.
GP practices are well on their way to achieving this but national leaders want to go one step further by offering people access to all of their health records – held by hospitals, community, mental health and social care services – by 2018.
In just four years, every citizen will be able to access their health records at the click of a button, detailing every visit to the GP and hospital, every prescription, test results, and adverse reactions and allergies to drugs. Patients will also be able to record their preferences and thoughts alongside official medical notes.
The alliance will establish a national digital standard for people at the end of life – building on the success of Co-ordinate My Care in London – so their care preferences are respected. The digitisation of the Personal Child Health Record (the red book) will offer new mothers personalised mobile care records for their child.
Read the framework document
The plans also include:
Established by the Department of Health and chaired by NHS England’s National Director for Patients and Information, Tim Kelsey, the National Information Board has set out a bold vision for how technology should work harder and better for patients and citizens by 2020.
The vision commits to giving everybody online access to their GP records, viewed through approved apps and digital platforms, by 2015.
GP practices are well on their way to achieving this but national leaders want to go one step further by offering people access to all of their health records – held by hospitals, community, mental health and social care services – by 2018.
In just four years, every citizen will be able to access their health records at the click of a button, detailing every visit to the GP and hospital, every prescription, test results, and adverse reactions and allergies to drugs. Patients will also be able to record their preferences and thoughts alongside official medical notes.
The alliance will establish a national digital standard for people at the end of life – building on the success of Co-ordinate My Care in London – so their care preferences are respected. The digitisation of the Personal Child Health Record (the red book) will offer new mothers personalised mobile care records for their child.
Read the framework document
The plans also include:
- NHS ‘Kitemarks’ for trusted smartphone apps which will help patients access services and take more control of their health and wellbeing in 2015
- Patients to be able to access their own GP record from spring 2015, and will have full access to care records by 2017. Patients will be able to record their own comments.
- Patients will only have to tell their story once. With consent, care records will be available electronically across the health system by 2018 for urgent care services and 2020 for all services – dramatically improving coordination of care, particularly for those with complex conditions.
- Introducing a digital ‘red book’– helping parents to manage their child’s early health records – in 2016
- Ensuring the NHS remains a leader in the global race to fight disease and as a hub for genomics research. Developing innovative personalised medicines will mean the right treatment, first time.
- Personalised Health and Care 2020: Using Data and Technology to Transform Outcomes for Patients and Citizens. A Framework for Action National Information Board
- News story: Major new report on digital technology Department of Health
- NHS plans 'kitemark' for health apps BBC News
- NHS promises 'world first' in giving patients access to x-rays and test results The Daily Telegraph
- How do I access my medical records? The Daily Telegraph
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