electronic patient record adoption<\/a>.<\/p>\n\u201cWe\u2019ve invested huge amounts of money, hardware, and resource, therefore the onus is to use taxpayers money wisely to ensure that our staff have the best possible training to use what in front of them,\u201d Price-Forbes said.<\/p>\n
He called for the NHS to \u201cstop just digitising what we did on paper\u201d and instead \u201cstrategically and purposefully\u201d redesign how it does things.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur challenge and our opportunity is to move from pockets of excellence to a consistent national standard, scale what works, redesign the services around digital, and focus relentlessly on change management, people and benefits realisation, to make a more resilient, productive NHS,\u201d Price-Forbes said.<\/p>\n
Other speakers at the session echoed the need for a more flexible and locally driven approach to transformation.<\/p>\n
Dr Indra Joshi, chief development officer at Optum UK, said that systems vary significantly in their digital maturity and\u00a0cautioned that innovation must be built on strong foundations, warning that the NHS cannot effectively transform services if underlying systems are not fit for purpose.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Dr Jennifer Dixon, chief executive of The Health Foundation, suggested that large-scale redesign may be difficult to deliver through a single national plan, arguing that \u201cfaster iteration\u201d may be a more pragmatic route to change.<\/p>\n
The session was chaired by Monica Fletcher, honorary senior research fellow at Nuffield Centre for Primary Care at the University of Oxford.<\/p>\n
Digital Health Rewired is taking place 24-25 March 2026 at the NEC in Birmingham.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(L to R) Dr Indra Joshi, chief development officer at Optum UK, Dr Jennifer Dixon, chief executive at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":847834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5008],"tags":[210746,748,242156,393,5036,4884,242157,242158,10080,15567,242159,242160,242161,16,15],"class_list":["post-847833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-england","tag-alec-price-forbes","tag-britain","tag-digital-health-rewired-2026","tag-england","tag-funding","tag-great-britain","tag-hospital-to-community","tag-national-ccio","tag-nhs-england","tag-nhse","tag-non-acute-funding","tag-optimisation","tag-rewired-2026","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116286078827765459","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=847833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/847834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=847833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=847833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}