Dr Simon Wallace
It seems not a week goes by without another headline focusing on ambulance queues and record waiting times at Emergency Departments (EDs) throughout the UK. My colleagues who work in EDs can easily pinpoint the root cause of the problem; it’s what Sir Stephen Powis, NHS England’s medical director, calls “a tripledemic of Covid, flu […]
In the coming year, the UK healthcare sector will have to weather many challenges, from nursing strikes to chronic staff shortages. All the while, the pressure will be on to accelerate the digital transformation agenda of the Health and Social Care Act 2022. However, while the challenges cannot be ignored, there are opportunities too. Here […]
I’m excited to announce that Nuance is partnering with the Professional Records Standards Body (PRSB) to help NHS trusts implement standards for care records to improve patient care and safety and reduce clinician burnout. By joining the Standards Partnership Scheme, we’re bringing together the two pillars that support high-quality clinical documentation: speech recognition technology and […]
Back in 2015, Nuance published a study with independent research consultancy, Ignetica, revealing the challenges of clinical documentation. Now, seven years on, we have repeated a very similar study with Ignetica assessing the burden of clinical documentation. It has revealed many of the documentation challenges clinicians face remain the same, and in some cases have […]
With the passing of the Health and Care Act 2022, England’s healthcare system is set for its most comprehensive set of reforms yet, with the government planning sweeping changes to its structure and hierarchy as they plot the future of healthcare. Care commissioning groups and other regional mechanisms will be replaced by integrated care systems […]
In our recent webinar, we looked at how Dragon Medical One, our conversational AI workflow assistant and documentation companion, uses advanced medical speech recognition to reduce the clinical documentation burden. During the webinar, I had a fascinating conversation with Dr Barry Sullman, GP at Balaam Street Surgery and Clinical Lead Prescribing at Newham CCG. Dr […]
What will healthcare look like in 2050? At HIMSS Europe 2022, I presented a session with Greg Moore, Corporate VP of Microsoft Health & Life Sciences, detailing how AI-driven ambient clinical intelligence will define the future of healthcare. In case you missed it, here’s a summary of the key takeaways from the session. Using AI […]
Faced with long backlogs and limiting staff shortages, hospitals across the UK are striving to do more with less. In a recent webinar, I spoke to leaders from Microsoft and the University College London Hospitals (UCLH) NHS Foundation Trust to explore how cloud technology can help—by unlocking new ways of working and untapped operational efficiencies. […]
Like so many other NHS Trusts, Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is on a journey of digital transformation, with the ultimate goal of delivering exceptional patient care. And it’s no small undertaking. Frimley started its journey with more than 200 legacy systems. Today, it’s well on its way to replacing them with a single system, […]
At the end of February, I’ll be joining a panel at the HSJ Digital Transformation Summit, where leaders from all across the healthcare sector come together to discuss the technologies that are helping them tackle some of the industry’s major challenges. Thinking ahead to the discussion, I’ve been considering how the recent move to integrated […]
Demand for primary care is at an all-time high, putting a major strain on already limited resources—but GPs across the UK have continued to step up and deliver critical services, even during the pandemic. Through this period of intense pressure, primary care providers have had to quickly adapt their services to meet new demands, covering […]
East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust’s vision of ‘great healthcare from great people’ serves more than 695,000 people across five hospitals and community clinics in southeast England. But the combined pressures of regulation, staff shortages, and increasing demand were putting East Kent’s clinical documentation processes under strain. “Like many trusts across the country, we’re […]
