Extract from Lords debate on The Long-term Sustainability of the NHS and Adult Social Care - Apr 26

Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist (Con):...Dr Murray Ellender, writing in the Times earlier this week, stated that modern digital triage tools can now help to differentiate between serious conditions necessitating a face-to-face consultation and the more routine which can be dealt with remotely. Although he observes,

“if we use social media as a benchmark, digital consulting is still at the Friends Reunited … stage”,

there are grounds for optimism. The current cohort of digitally savvy medical students and the recently qualified are sure to be rather quicker to embrace new technologies than their perhaps less digitally aware seniors. The changes that innovations such as cloud computing, VR, 3d printing, genomics and AI are bringing to the NHS could not have been imagined even five years ago and, frankly, cannot come a moment too soon...

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