Cuts could help NHS to focus on innovation

The substantial efficiency savings that the NHS has to make should help it to focus on its core responsibilities, according to Ibukun Adebayo, director of IT at Turning Point.

Speaking at Smart Healthcare Live, she said: "While most professionals will tell you that cuts are not a good thing, I would hope to see more focus of on systems that actually matter. So in the NHS I'd like to see systems implemented that actually deliver the quality of care to the patients that we so desperately need."

Earlier during the event Adebayo told the event that the NHS needed to break through the "silo mentality" it had in order to deliver the best care for patients. She said that there needed to be more joined up working and trust between health organisations.

Jim Briggs, principal lecturer at principal lecturer and director at Portsmouth University's Centre for Healthcare Modelling and Informatics, who was also speaking at the event, agreed with Adebayo. He said that although it was obviously harder to "do things with fewer resources" there is an old adage about never letting a good crisis go to waste.

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