The National Health Service's data challenge

New technologies promise to achieve what no politician has yet managed in the 70-year history of the UK's National Health Service (NHS): improving patient care while simultaneously saving money. In the government's 10-year-plan announcement this month, far-reaching new technological measures were announced. They demonstrate just how key digital transformation will be to the future of the health service. Changes in the pipeline include referrals being centralised into the NHS e-Referral Service. GP appointments via Skype are set to become more commonplace too.