The UK Health Secretary, Wes Streeting, has signalled three strategic shifts as part of his planned reforms.
Speaking at the Financial Times’s Weekend Festival, Mr Streeting outlined these pivots: moving care from hospital to communities, emphasising prevention over treatment, and further digitising healthcare.
He noted that converting the NHS from an ‘analogue to a digital’ health system by adopting modern technology will improve the utility of diagnostics.
We welcome these changes as BIVDA have long advocated for greater focus on preventative care and community-based primary care. Diagnostics is a key enabler for these shifts to take place and will ensure patients receive earlier diagnoses, live longer, healthier lives and, given the flexibility of testing, access care in more convenient locations.
