Catherine Davies
Director, Digital Healthcare Council
Find solutions from various healthcare innovators tackling NHS challenges today. From funding to remote monitoring, they can offer support.
The NHS’s main challenges include short-term pressures impacting investment, capacity issues, staff shortages and insufficient focus on prevention. The Digital Healthcare Council (DHC) members offer innovative solutions.
Digital healthcare solution for easier investment decisions
Lilli has launched a fund in response to overcoming some of the major challenges facing the health and social care sector. It will match fund organisations to harness remote monitoring technology to help them expedite solutions to their key needs, increase efficiencies, savings in time, resources and money and improve health outcomes.
Creating additional capacity in the system
Our members have created innovative technologies to support people at home. Alder Hey NHS Foundation Trust Innovation Hub worked with Objectivity, part of Accenture, to develop a remote patient monitoring platform. Little Hearts at Home offers remote monitoring for infants with severe heart defects. They reduce hospital stays and anxiety for families with data-driven, personalised care.
TeleTracking Technologies’ patient flow platform automates processes to reduce the amount of time beds are unavailable between patient admissions in acute hospitals. This dramatically increases hospital capacity and saves time for frontline staff, as well as creating real-time data to improve bed allocation decision-making. This has helped hospitals shorten waiting times for patients.
Preventing health issues could relieve
substantial pressure on the NHS.
Optimising NHS clinician and staff time
HBSUK helps NHS providers reduce waiting times by providing online outpatient services and on-site clinical capacity resulting in 50% fewer patients having to attend a hospital for an appointment. Visiba offers AI-enabled patient triage and is NHS England’s partner for AI triage in urgent care.
Evergreen Life has a wellbeing platform that empowers people to take control of their own health records and improve their health and happiness – with elements spanning both primary and secondary care. eMed is working to democratise healthcare through its digital-first primary care service and chronic healthcare management solutions.
Prioritising prevention and keeping people well
Preventing health issues could relieve substantial pressure on the NHS. Preventx has partnered with NHS England to enable people to order home hepatitis C tests. This service will increase awareness of hepatitis C testing and support the UK to become the first country to eliminate hepatitis C by 2030. Those who receive a positive test result are referred to NHS centres for simple treatment to clear them of the virus. Innovation isn’t something for the future — it’s part of the current solution that will help the NHS starting today.
