NHS' New Plan: 'Long-Termism' Is Also Needed In Adoption And Spread Of Technology In UK

 
• By Ashley Yeo
  
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The new "NHS Long Term Plan" is an opportunity for an expansive vision in the UK, but it will fall short in its ambitious aims if it merely defaults to old, failed concepts of annualized, silo-nature NHS budgeting. These have proven to be a persistent and significant barrier to the introduction of innovation, says Peter Ellingworth, chief executive of the Association of British HealthTech Industries (ABHI).

The number of attempts to reform UK health-care delivery over the past two decades is both impressive and sobering. Impressive because of the sheer determination to future-proof the sector and improve timely access to modern care for an ever-larger number of patients; and sobering because all the good intentions have still not been knitted together into durable, positive change. Whether the new NHS "Long Term Plan (LTP)," released on Jan. 7 and running to 136 pages, can make the difference is not certain, but such an ambition clearly needs more than worthy aims and enthusiasm.

For now, the UK medtech industry is hopeful and realistic in about equal doses. “A long-term strategy to address the...

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