Digital Innovation Hubs

Digital Innovation Hubs
Between three and five ‘Digital Innovation Hubs’ will be established over the next three years, which pull data from GP practices, hospitals, social and community care providers for research and development purposes.
Funded through the UK government’s Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund, the hubs will cover populations of 3-5 million people and aim to complement NHS England’s Local Health and Care Record Exemplar (LHCRE) programme, and NHS Digital’s Data Services Platform.

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UK govt pumps £37.5m into new health and biomedical data hubs

Digital health 26 July 2018

£37.5m investment in Digital Innovation Hubs to tackle Britain’s biggest health challenges 

Health Data Research UK 16 July 2018

Next steps for social care funding reform

A fork in the road: Next steps for social care funding reform. The costs of social care funding options, public attitudes to them – and the implications for policy reform
Health Foundation, Kings Fund May 2018

• This paper pulls together new financial modelling, public perceptions work and policy analysis to identify the problems with adult social care in England and outline options for its reform.
• One of the key points is the lack of public understanding of how social care operates or is funded. People often struggle to distinguish between social care and the health services provided by the NHS.

Lord Darzi Review of Health and Care: Interim report

The Lord Darzi Review of Health and Care: Interim report
IPPR, 25 April 2018

• The Lord Darzi Review aims to examine the state of quality in health and care services on the NHS’s 70th birthday and make recommendations for future funding and reform of the system ("NHS plan").
• The report examines trends in population health, quality of services, access to services and funding over the past decade and provides headlines from three health funding scenarios.