Patients to get online access to specialists ‘from comfort of home’ – Streeting
The health secretary said that thanks to a new NHS Online Hospital that provides access to experts in the UK, it will be seen faster than the comfort of their own homes or tables ”.
Wes Streeting, PA news agency, people can use a “virtual hospital” from 2027 to talk to experts, and those who prefer face -to -face appointments can still have them.
Mr. Streeting will make a speech that is expected to talk about the future of NHS at the Labor Party Conference in Liverpool on Tuesday.
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer will use Leader’s speech online in Labour’s Conference.
Mr. Streeting Pa said: “This is a workers’ government that not only raises our NHS, but also modernizes it in accordance with the future.
“NHS Online is our new virtual hospital.
“For some patients with some patients with safe and appropriate conditions, patients – around the houses, GPs, then to the hospital, then for control and scanning, again – faster and more comfortable way, faster and more comfortable than the comfort of their own homes, they can be seen in a faster and more comfortable way by a person who can have something faster and more comfortable, or more comfortable, or more comfortable, or more comfortable, or more comfortable, or more comfortable. A person who can diagnose somehow or by a person who can diagnose it will be more comfortable, comfortable and easier for patients.
“What is exciting about online NHS is that we adopt a proven approach to work in some hospitals and spread throughout the country.
“For example, in Southampton, they tried it for patients with chronic intestine, and by adopting this approach, patients are more faster, comfortable, online, given the support they need.
“For them, the hospital releases the appointments of the hospital face -to -face for those who need them.
“If it’s good enough for Southampton, why doesn’t it be everywhere?
“Of course, only for the circumstances it is safe and effective.
“And, of course, there will always be some people who say ‘I want to see someone face -to -face’.
“And the good news is about it, everyone wins.
“For those who are seen as online and want to be faster and more suitable for those who want to see someone face -to -face, the extra capacity we create means that these people receive better service.”
The government estimates that moving to a virtual hospital will make an extra appointment for 8.5 million extra appointments for three years.
Moorfields Eye Hospital in London said, “A really great online triaage for some patients, I am much faster access to the right care.”
The new system will work using teams to trigger patients through the NHS application after making an appointment with GP.
People will be able to make a first appointment with an expert from all over the country online and then chat with them using video if they want.
NHS, UK, said that the use of experts throughout the country will help the dissemination of demand because patients are no longer withdrawn by long local waiting lists.
Patients can also book and monitor their prescriptions for recommended tests or scans.
Initially, the focal point said it would have a small number of planned treatment areas with the longest waiting, but NHS will expand to other areas over time.
In his speech at Liverpool in the afternoon in Tuesday, Sir Keir will say “a new world is coming ve and I want people to look back in the next decades when we renewed NHS for a new world”.
The Prime Minister will define this as a new section in NHS’s story, patients who use the future and under control ”.
“Cut for each person in this country. This national renewal is a British built for everyone.”
The Prime Minister will also emphasize the need for the continuation of NHS modernization by insisting on the responsibility of Labor’s responsibility for making health care in accordance with the coming years.
Sir Keir will say: orum I know how hard people work in NHS – I see this in my family – and I congratulate it at every opportunity.
“However, the responsibility of this party is not only to celebrate NHS, but also to make it better.”
“This is a new and potential way to improve the game of Equality and Access to NHS services that will reduce health inequalities and the speed of access to NHS services that will reduce health inequalities.
“Obviously, we must make sure that digitally non -effective ones are not punished in any way, but if this approach can be safely and effectively, it can also be a potentially good thing if it releases capacity in bricks and mortar hospitals.”
Dr Becks Fisher from Nuffield Trust said: “It makes sense to make patients a free choice to choose these new digital services or to choose outside.
“This should mean that NHS will not close those who want care personally.
“However, there are some difficult questions about how this new service will be applied: can doctors and nurses to undertake this work without affecting the current face -to -face work?
“And how will they spend patients who need to look at physical services from digital?
“This service will only be safe and appropriate for certain patients.
“How do we make sure that they are held?”
Daniel Elkeles, General Manager of NHS providers, said that the online hospital service could be a “very important” development.
