Innovation, Health and Wealth - government's way forward
“We can be proud of our past – but we cannot be complacent about our future. The industry is changing; not just year by year, but month by month. We must ensure that the UK stays ahead… – we’ve got to change radically – the way we innovate, the way we collaborate, the way we open up the NHS.”
These are the words of Prime Minister David Cameron, who yesterday announced a series of initiatives to respond to the changing nature of healthcare and the health and life science industries. The Department of Health launched the ‘Innovation, Health and Wealth: accelerating adoption and diffusion in the NHS’.
Complementing these reports DH also published the headline findings from the Whole Systems Demonstrator trial, the largest randomised control trial of telehealth and telecare in the UK, and indeed the world.
On the back of these headline findings David Cameron launched a campaign to roll out telehealth across the nation. He told the Independent:
