The Whitehall Group – An Action Plan for the Digital Patient’ a White Paper focused on digitising the NHS

Following a recent dinner with its member, Lord Prior of Brampton, former Chairman of NHS England and currently Vice Chairman of Lazard UK, the Cambridge University Land Society Whitehall Group has been working on an initiative he took discussing the Digitisation of the NHS.  The Whitehall Group has collaborated with Marlene Winfield, OBE , a former Healthcare Civil Servant, to produce a White Paper entitled  “An Action Plan for the Digital Patient”.

This is the second White Paper the Whitehall Group has produced in the last 12 months. An important – yet often neglected – piece of the jigsaw to make the NHS sustainable in supporting people to manage long term illness.  Along with their conditions 99% of the time, they use 70% of NHS resources:  those who manage confidently use fewer resources and live better.  There must be a coherent strategy to ensure that the digital health revolution does not ignore them. Below is a detailed action plan for the Digital Patient that considers many of the challenges faced in effecting change in health and social care, together with a press release. We hope that you will circulate the paper widely and support efforts for it, or something similar, to become a key part of England’s digital health strategy.

Action Plan For The Digital Patient v.5 300424

Press Release – An Action Plan for the Digital Patient 300424