Health Education England outlines training plans for “digital first” NHS

Health Education England has set out its blueprint for equipping current and future healthcare workers with greater skills in digital technologies to deliver the ambitions of the 2019 Topol review.1Eric Topol of the Scripps Research Institute in California was commissioned by former health secretary for Jeremy Hunt to explore how NHS staff can make the most of technology to improve services. Topol’s report concluded that doctors needed training in genomics, artificial intelligence (AI), and other digital healthcare technologies, with care increasingly being supported by AI and robotics and dependent on data from patient-worn sensors and whole genome sequencing.23As demand for the NHS and social care grows, and the workforce expands, digital technologies will allow transformation of workforce planning and supply, education and training, and clinical decision making and will deliver increasingly personalised healthcare services, Health Education England said. To maximise the benefits of new technologies and develop a culture of…
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