Tom Davis, Medical Director and Co- Country Manager Livi UK comments on the need for better funding to scale innovation:
“We fully support Wes Streeting’s ambition to evolve the NHS through digitalisation, but the GP funding model must be urgently fixed to scale digital healthcare. In our experience, healthcare varies locally and regionally, and while the General Practice Forward View five years ago provided sustainable funding for specific digital solutions, current funding is short-term and unpredictable. This makes it hard for partners like us to help Primary Care Networks to scale, adopt new technologies, reduce fragmentation, and improve cost efficiency. We need a long-term, outcome-based funding model that incentivises digital health through subsidies, freeing up capacity and improving patient access while lowering costs.”
Malin Wennergren, Co-Country Manager Operations Livi UK response to innovation and private companies working within the NHS.
“Our experience working across European health systems has enabled us to prove that digital healthcare has the potential to effect change on a massive scale. Our unique model of digital-physical care supports fully integrated care journeys. For patients; it’s about improved access, increased flexibility, and personalisation. For healthcare professionals; it’s about spending less time on admin and, delivering the right care at the right time. For Government we shift focus from cure to prevention. Everyone benefits from collaboration, improved population health and lower costs. A single patient record or passport can enhance care efficiency but rules around technology and emerging products such as AI will play a big part. We need patient trust and confidence in digital healthcare and data use to support a ‘digi-physical’ healthcare model, but we, as a partner to the NHS, also need support and clarity when innovating.”
Tony Yates, Technical Director Livi UK said on the importance of data to boost prevention:
“It is encouraging to hear the Government talking up the need for better data use to boost prevention. But UK healthcare is a long way off using population health data at scale to achieve this aim. If we are to realise the full potential of Streeting’s plans we need to ensure that we have systems that talk to one another and have common data standards (across Europe and the UK) to prevent a tiered health data system, along with clear definitions of healthcare data and its intended use e.g., special category data use to assure patient safety and security.
“From the Government we need to remove siloed medical record systems in the NHS and streamline digital records systems to improve interoperability and integration of new technologies such as AI and Large Language Models that improve efficiency and lower costs of care. This will provide a solid foundation from which initiatives like the proposed medical passports can be adopted enabling patients, public authorities, medical professionals and researchers to develop and deliver better diagnosis, treatment and personalised care from community to country.”
