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Centres of global digital excellence fund
NHS England has invited 26 of the ‘most digitally advanced trusts’ to apply for over £100 million of funding to become centres of global digital excellence.
In a bid to win up to £10 million each to invest in digital infrastructure and specialist training, the trusts will demonstrate their potential to become world leaders in health informatics.
Between 10-16 trusts will be selected to become centres of global digital excellence, and will lead the way for the entire system to move faster in getting better information technology on the ground, delivering benefits for patients and sharing learning and resources with other local organisations through networks.
To be selected, the trusts need to show they will deliver comprehensive use of electronic patient records, information sharing across the local health and care system and robust data security.
Professor Keith McNeil, chief clinical information officer at NHS England, said: “It is evident the benefits of investing in and optimising use of digital technology to improve efficiency and enhance care is more widely understood but we are not yet realising these benefits at scale or sufficiently quickly.
“We need to move faster in getting clinicians real time access to accurate information and joining up healthcare systems to improve outcomes for patients and reduce workload for doctors, nurses and other NHS staff. Our aim here is to create a national movement in which the centres of global digital excellence will be core.”
Paul Rice, head of Technology Strategy at NHS England, said: “We have a set of acute providers who are class leading in England when it comes to optimising digital technology. This benefits their clinicians, their patients and the wider community they serve. By stepping up to become world class they can join the most digitally advanced healthcare organisations across the globe and help deliver a sustainable and transformed NHS.”
The centres will be announced at the NHS Health and Care Innovation Expo event in September.
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