Mark Hindle, vice president EMEA, Orion Health, looks forward to an election year and argues that if political parties are looking for a ‘big idea’ for the NHS, they could do worse than recognise the potential of a flagship programme to join-up ShCRs and finally create a single, longitudinal health and care record for every person in England.
It’s going to be a busy year in the shared care records space.
NHS leaders, ShCRs and their suppliers are going to have plenty of work in hand to drive adoption, improve maturity, share data across boundaries, and start thinking about how to extend the use of ShCR information to system leaders and patients.
But, as the country starts to think about the general election that must be held before the end of January next year, we also need to keep an eye on the big picture.
How do we make ShCRs financially sustainable, and get them fully embedded in the health and care system?
Here’s how I see 2024, in nine tasks and one, big picture challenge:
One: address the adoption challenge
Every integrated care system has a shared care record in place, so the focus has switched to adoption.
NHS England figures show that some long-standing ShCRs have thousands of views per month, while some of the newer ones have just a few hundred.
