Five hundred thousand people will use digital tools to manage their long-term health conditions in their own homes, under the British government’s transformative programme.
In an announcement on Wednesday, the government announced that a major chunk of healthcare is to go online in England under a new digitisation plan. They say this is to clear backlogs caused by lockdowns in response to the COVID-19 as well as to deliver “more tailored care for patients.”
It is spending £2 billion to support electronic patient records to be in all NHS trusts and to get 500,000 people to use digital tools to manage long-term health conditions such as diabetes in their own homes and care homes….