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This is huge.


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This is one of the biggest digital
transformation programmes in history.


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It's true that the NHS is just simply not
sustainable without a radical


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transformation.


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So this has completely changed the way in
which we're able to deliver healthcare.


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Obviously that was the really that was
where it was before and that's where it


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is now.


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The transformation that digital can bring
about is exactly the transformation to


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help keep the NHS sustainable and free at
the point of use.


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The NHS Frontline Digitisation programme
is about helping hospitals and care


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providers move from paper based systems
to modern digital tools.


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That means giving staff access to the
right information at the right time,


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wherever they need it.


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We're facing massive pressures from an
ageing population and an ever increasing


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number of more expensive treatments.


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The three strategic shifts that the NHS
needs to make is to shift from analogue


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care to digital care,
from acute hospital based care into


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community based care and to a system
which is really moving from sickness into


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prevention.


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And having one patient record is critical
to enabling all of those shifts happening.


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By March 2026,
the goal is for 96% of NHS trusts to have


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a modern electronic patient record system,
with the remaining in delivery.


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So over the past four years we've
invested about £2 billion / 170 different


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NHS organisations.


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When I identify a patient I'm going to
see,


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I will click on them and then their whole
digital world opens up to me.


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These systems enable members of
multidisciplinary teams within hospitals


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to all see the same information about the
patient at the same time to come to


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better considered decision.


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It's the beating heart of an organisation.


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It affects every single care process that
has a patient you'll experience.


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When I started my NHS career we used to
have to wheel trolleys piled up with


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patient records and notes,
so the Eprs have made things hugely


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efficient.


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The implementation of the infrastructure
associated with Eprs can help NHS staff


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claim back thousands of hours annually.


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So if you're a patient on a ward and
you're having your vital signs monitored,


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your temperature, your blood pressure,
your oxygen level,


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that data will be put straight into your
record.


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A nurse has not had to transcribe that
information.


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This was about supporting over 170
organisations and A1 cent a generation


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implementation recognise they're all at
different stages of organisational


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maturity and digital maturity.


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O We focused most of our resource on
those that have furthest to go,


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trying to ensure that we are are
narrowing the gap.


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They've really listened hard to frontline
staff to understand where their greatest


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needs were at the moment that matters to
the most so that more time could be spent


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committing to care to the patient.


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It was really important to us to work
with a partner who could draw on


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knowledge and experience from across the
health and care system.


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We worked in collaboration with the
NHSNHS England and PwC and the the


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results have been absolutely staggering.


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Intentionally this was a team brought
together from experts across a whole set


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of different organisations,
be it national NHS England,


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be it ourselves on transformation and our
consortia, but also the local NHS.


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The convening has brought NHS trusts
together to learn from one another.


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That has really helped projects run
successfully.


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So we've seen Eprs have tangible benefits.


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We've seen a 17.
5% reduction in sepsis mortality.


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We've seen a 4.
5% reduction in average length of stay,


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which is hundreds of thousands of bed
days.


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Back to the NHS.


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They also see a 13% drop in admitted
patient costs and that's a reflection of


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more efficient, digitally enabled care.


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This programme's a fundamental building
block to then be able to look at our


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wider aspirations.


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We're seeing innovations such as robot
assisted surgery,


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drones delivering blood samples across
London, and pharmaceutical robots.


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And as AI accelerates,
we're looking at what that means for


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digital health.


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That includes integration with other
technologies such as our Federated data


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platform.


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The future NHS needs to be 1,
which exists a lot more in the patient's


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pocket.


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We expect that that will lead to ever
increasing levels of patient empowerment


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as the NHS truly seizes the opportunity
to digitise its pathways.


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I hope that when people talk about the
legacy of this programme,


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they say that it really changed lives,
that it gave time back to clinicians,


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dignity back to patients and laid the
foundation for a smarter NHS.


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It gives me a great degree of
satisfaction to know the difference that


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we're making to people's lives each and
every day in the NHS.