Ten digital priorities for NHS patient safety (20 April 2021)

Summary

Patient safety and digital experts have given their views on immediate digital priorities that could make a significant difference in the NHS.

Content

Professor Mike Bewick, England’s former national deputy medical director and board member of C2-Ai, Helen Hughes and Clive Flashman, Patient Safety Learning, and Richard Jones, chief strategy officer, C2-Ai, discuss the following top ten digital priorities in this Digital Health article:

1. Strengthen digital literacy.
2. Automation.
3. Investment.
4. Better access to centrally sourced and patient-generated data.
5. Adopt patient safety standards and embed these into new technologies, especially AI.
6. Build safety more strongly into the user experience.
7. Patient safety maturity index.
8. Faster deployment of key technologies.
9. Count what counts, not what is easy to count.
10. Scanning multiple hospitals can double the effect of new systems.