#health-sector

#health-sector

"It is more challenging than reading from these systems, especially in systems that are very old and were never designed to have data extracted or written back to them. That is a challenge across the NHS, and that is one of the biggest challenges that the FDP program faces as a whole. If ultimately the end step of that process is a manual write back, where someone has to key in a decision into a system, then a lot of the efficiency is lost."

"My contribution to that conversation has been more about ensuring that the legislation defines the purpose of the assessment and enables access to it, rather than it being a catch-all for everything in the state."

What was announced was more spending equivalent to an additional £190bn over the parliamentary term.

Given the recent lack of productivity in the health service, this extra money could easily be wasted.

An investigation of some 2,000 pharmacies in Zambia from 2021 to 2023 found nearly half of them were selling medicines and products paid for by US aid funds.