Andrew Lansley’s announcement immediately following his appointment signalled a push for innovation to increase the bang for buck the health service delivers. This will lead to a move away from expensive software development products and towards solution driven packages delivered through a hosted model.
It has become evident in a number of NHS Trusts that unnecessary layers of governance bureaucracy are failing to deliver higher quality standards of patient care and are instead a hindrance and distraction, wasting vast amounts of NHS time and budgets.
Andrew Lansley in his first statement as Secretary of State for Health says “We will need progressively to be more efficient, to cut the costs of what we do now, to innovate and re-design, in order to enable us to meet increased demands and to improve quality and outcomes.” And continues “This will not happen in a top-down, bureaucratic system.”
Better governance doesn’t have to mean more paperwork agrees eShare. “Too much time and money is being spent on systems and processes that do not work, that drain resources and that fail to ensure high standards as they are intended to do. In the end it is the patients who are suffering and paying the price,” explains Alister Esam, CEO of eShare Health.
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