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A clinician measuring a patient's blood pressure using a device on their finger.

Change for the better: how can the NHS Health Check better help patients manage cardiovascular disease risk?

Sophie GriffithsBrian McMillanKiera BartlettDavid French By Sophie Griffiths, Brian McMillan, Kiera Bartlett and David French Filed Under: All posts, Health and Care, Health and Social Care Posted: April 17, 2025

The NHS Health Check reaches more than a million patients each year. It involves cardiovascular risk assessments, which can be used to develop management strategies to help patients lower their risk of cardiovascular disease. But how often do these checks lead to sustained behaviour change? In this piece, published as part of the Healthy Hearts […]

Tagged With: Health & Social Care, Health inequalities, inequalities, NHS, NHS Digital, public health, SHS

Can we upskill the health and social care workforce to meet the growing demand for digital transformation?

Dr Alan Davies headshot photoProfessor Angela Davies By Alan Davies and Angela Davies Filed Under: All posts, Digital Futures, Health and Care, Health and Social Care Posted: April 22, 2024

There has been growing interest regarding the potential of digital transformation to aid the UK’s health and social care system in its ambition to meet modern demands placed upon it. But what skills do different employees in this sector need – and is the infrastructure in place to support them? Here, Dr Alan Davies and […]

Tagged With: care quality, digital, Digital Divide, Health & Social Care, innovation, NHS, NHS Digital, Pankhurst Institute, SHS, technology

Data directly from our patients: Is improving patient data the key to better cancer care?

By Corinne Faivre-Finn, Niels Peek and James Price Filed Under: All posts, Digital Futures, Health and Care, Science and Technology Posted: September 8, 2022

To provide the best care and support for cancer patients during and after treatment, it is essential to collect and work with data that captures patient experiences and patient-reported outcomes. But data is not a simple subject. The way healthcare services work with data, and how we work with patients to collect it, must be […]

Tagged With: #OnCancer, Biometrics, cancer, care quality, data, digital, Health & Social Care, innovation, NHS, NHS Digital, Pankhurst Institute, SHS, SMS, technology

Citizen’s data, healthcare and trust

By John Ainsworth and Niels Peek Filed Under: Digital Futures, Health and Care, Health and Social Care Posted: August 11, 2020

Health data has informed a central part our NHS for more than two decades, helping the informative bodies to improve services and understand health trends. This has also proved key in understanding, and attempting to mitigate, the worst impacts of COVID-19. However, when this data is shared with secondary bodies, does the public trust that […]

Tagged With: care quality, data, digital, Digital Futures, disability, Health & Social Care, Lydia Becker Institute, MERI, NHS, NHS Digital, NHS improvement, OnDigitalTrust, Privacy, public health, technology

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