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67 per cent of IT leaders say 'paperless' NHS is possible
The Digital Health Intelligence NHS IT Leadership Survey surveyed members of the Health CIO Network and CCIO Leaders Network in August 2015.
67 per cent of respondents were ‘quite confident’ or ‘extremely confident’ that the NHS could significantly reduce paper and reach paperless targets by 2020, with only 14 per cent saying they were ‘not at all confident’ or ‘not very confident’ of achieving the target.
The idea of a ‘paperless’ NHS was first introduced by Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt in 2013, who also plans for all patients to have read/write access to their own records by the end of the decade.
However, only 28 per cent said they were confident that patients would have this read/write access to their records, with 53 per cent saying they were not confident.
The survey also asked respondents of their top three IT priorities, with 73 per cent saying ‘moving to paperless working’, 68 per cent saying ‘improving quality of services’ and 67 per cent saying ‘supporting new models of care’.
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