NHSX has announced that a total of 35 projects will receive shares of the £6.5 million Adoption Fund across gastroenterology pathways; musculoskeletal pathways; perioperative pathways; initiatives to support digital inclusion; and cardiology and cardiac surgery networks.
Matthew Gould, chief executive of NHSX, said: "Today we are backing 35 local projects to transform care for patients using digital technology.
"These initiatives show how digital can help the NHS ease the pressure on services, from digitising standard pre-treatment assessment processes; to freeing up clinical time by supporting patients to manage their conditions at home."
The Adoption Fund is set up to support innovations which:
- has some evidence base in the NHS and can support current priorities around elective recovery
- is DTAC compliant, or on their way to being so
- is not being funded elsewhere by the NHS
- has potential for rapid, wide roll-out across the NHS.
You can find full details of the projects benefitting from the NHSX Adoption Fund here.
In a blog about this work, Lisa Hollins, director of innovation at NHSX, said: “NHS and care services have been using digital technology in new ways to find creative solutions to the pressures, backlogs and waiting lists created by the COVID pandemic. Virtual wards have enabled people to recover at home with remote clinical supervision, creating inpatient capacity for those that need to stay in hospital. Digital and video-based tools are already helping to ensure any post-op rehab programme and exercises are completed correctly and that the rehab plan is clear ahead of the day of surgery.
“Building on these sorts of innovations will play a key part in the restoration and sustainability of services. Digital transformation is also driving entirely new care pathways that are better for patients and that save time for clinical and administrative teams.”
