An HSJ roundtable, in association with The Access Group, discussed how digital technologies might improve integrated care over the next decade.

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Sir John Oldham is currently a strategic adviser to health secretary Wes Streeting but spoke at this event in a personal capacity. He opened the session by summarising three major imperatives, noting that these have been a constant across the 15 years he has worked in this area:

  1. Human processes and behaviours must change to match the capabilities of technology
  2. Enabling co-management for people with long-term conditions is key to the NHS’s future productivity
  3. The AI-empowered individual will upend healthcare

How these imperatives play into the 10-Year Health Plan is still unknown, but the roundtable guests, representing integrated care boards, NHS trusts, suppliers, and local authorities, were not short of ideas.

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Panel

  • Amanda Begley, director of digital and transformation, Health Innovation Network South London
  • Martin Ellis, chief digital information officer, South West London Integrated Care System
  • Kelvyn Hipperson, executive chief information officer, Cornwall and Isles of Scilly ICB, Royal Cornwall Hospitals and Cornwall Partnership Trust
  • Eileen Jessop, non-executive director, Birmingham and Solihull ICB
  • Matthew Kent, chief nursing informatics officer, Oxford Health Foundation Trust
  • William Lumb, chief clinical information officer, Lancashire and South Cumbria ICB
  • Joe McDonald, medical director, The Access Group
  • Sir John Oldham, strategic adviser to the secretary of state
  • Karen Taylor, non-executive director, Kent Community Health FT
  • Melanie Williams, executive director for adult social care and health, Nottinghamshire County Council
  • Dave West, deputy editor, HSJ (roundtable chair)

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