Small Is Beautiful

Everybody loved SMEs at EHI Live 2012; although a few would like to feel the love as cold, hard cash. Daloni Carlisle reports.

The view from the top at EHI Live 2012 was clear and consistent: without IT the NHS cannot deliver the savings, efficiencies and quality gains demanded of it.

In fact, so clear and consistent was the message that the two opposing politicians on the platform – health minister Dr Dan Poulter and his shadow Andrew Gwynne – might easily have shared large parts of their scripts.

So, according to Dr Poulter, “information technology is very much part of the future of the NHS” - and we must all embrace it to deliver the kind of choice and quality in the NHS that new technology has delivered to other parts of our lives.