Ben Clover
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Ben Clover
@BenClover
Bureau chief at the Health Service Journal
London 가입일 Mayıs 2010
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NHS boss says the main way to improve health service cybersecurity is fixing the basics like "multi-factor authentication, out-of-support kit [and] weak passwords”.
...Not entirely reassuring
from @BenClover
hsj.co.uk/technology-and…
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Nearly 50 NHS trusts that perform well on patient care have been downgraded because they are in deficit.
But analysis of NHS England's own figures shows two-thirds of those are under-funded - raising questions about the fairness of the new league tables
(link below)
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This graph (red dots actual performance v the grey line trajectory needed to hit the government's waiting list target) shows why NHS leaders are concerned about the waiting list ambition veering off track
Rob Findlay @ Insource@gooroohealth
The waiting list change was +11,998 in August, worse than the latest trajectory for restoring 18 weeks which required -67,159. The waiting list size was overall 230,438 worse than the latest trajectory. As a simple rule, the wait list must shrink every single month. #nhswaits
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NRS Healthcare supplied wheelchairs and other medical devices to around half the country
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I can only talk from an orthopaedic standpoint & particularly from hip & knee surgery as that’s my area.
Referrals are going up. Locally MSK triage services seem overwhelmed; once patients finally get through and are referred on there is a 16w wait for an appointment with us.
Alastair McLellan@HSJEditor
The government has made just ONE promise on NHS performace: to shrink the elective waiting list. So far, whatever it might say, that is not happening
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@harrymightyatom Hi Harry, sounds like you've some specifics in mind! Email me if you think there's something we should be looking at ben.clover@hsj.co.uk
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@BenClover Well Wes could start by allowing SMEs to help deliver his 10 year plan rather than pseudo commercial organisations that are in essence inefficient internal NHS teams taking contracts that SMEs could deliver more efficiently
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Tough day to ask Wes for ideas to cut regulation. Day after confirmation of DHSC using public money to put private-equity owned medical equipment company NRS Healthcare on life support assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/68be94a0…
Hugo Gye@HugoGye
Cabinet meeting tomorrow will have only one item on the agenda: growth. Rachel Reeves will demand new ideas from all ministers on how to cut regulation in their policy area. DWP and MoD being refocussed to help drive growth.
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@pash22 @drokane @NHSEngland @GreatOrmondSt @tortus_AI @sib313 @mancunianmedic @HSJnews @ProfNegrini hadn't seen this one Ash, interesting, cheers
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Yup, that's my fear too, along with the all-imp Q "At what opportunity cost though?"
@profnegrini et al report on the huge need for improved reporting on AI metrics, particularly regarding the training of AI models and dataset quality, as both are essential for a comprehensive quality assessment and for mitigating the risk of bias using specialized evaluation tools.
frontiersin.org/journals/digit…
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AI in A&Es could save @NHSEngland £834 million, major @GreatOrmondSt study using @tortus_AI technology finds
hsj.co.uk/technology-and… via @BenClover
You seen this @sib313 @mancunianmedic ?
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@pash22 @drokane @NHSEngland @GreatOrmondSt @tortus_AI @sib313 @mancunianmedic @HSJnews not sure I'm allowed to bet on it Ash, but I would surmise that AVT, not necessarily this one or in every setting, will becoming a fairly commonplace part of the NHS in the next five years or so
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@BenClover @drokane @NHSEngland @GreatOrmondSt @tortus_AI @sib313 @mancunianmedic It won't Ben, wanna take a bet? Steve @sib313 has written a highly critical 2024 article in your own @HSJnews
"Magical thinking is driving @NHSEngland ’s adoption of AI"
hsj.co.uk/daily-insight/…
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@drokane @pash22 @NHSEngland @GreatOrmondSt @tortus_AI @sib313 @mancunianmedic but the magic beans worked? At least in Jack and the Beanstalk. But i take the point about there being a lot of hype out there and unanswered questions. This is the biggest study so far tho, so guess we'll see if it takes off
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@BenClover @pash22 @NHSEngland @GreatOrmondSt @tortus_AI @sib313 @mancunianmedic I have some magic beans guaranteed to help reduce healthcare costs
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@mancunianmedic @LarcombePeter @pash22 @NHSEngland @GreatOrmondSt @tortus_AI @sib313 I remember being sat with our new baby in a maternity unit while the mum in the next bay had a very intense conversation with lady from social services
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@LarcombePeter @BenClover @pash22 @NHSEngland @GreatOrmondSt @tortus_AI @sib313 yes
for those of us who spend a lot of time in acute care whether on ED/AMU or Inpatient Medical Wards, ambient noise and interruption (and being overheard) and near impossibility of maintaining aural confidentiality are just what the job is like
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@MFAminGP @parthaskar @clifford0584 @sib313 they say it cut the time spent on documentation such as clinical notes by a little over half
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@parthaskar @BenClover @clifford0584 From the HSJ reading, it seems that paper has attributed most of AE delays results from clinicians typing notes when most of the delay in AE has nothing to do with the clinicians assessment process.
I guess @sib313 may want to shed light on it.
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Our report on the biggest trial of ambient voice technology in the NHS so far
Health Service Journal@HSJnews
Exclusive: AI in A&Es could save £834m, major study finds ift.tt/05HZF1j
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@LarcombePeter @pash22 @NHSEngland @GreatOrmondSt @tortus_AI @sib313 @mancunianmedic hmm, not sure how they did it at St George's then, will ask
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@BenClover @pash22 @NHSEngland @GreatOrmondSt @tortus_AI @sib313 @mancunianmedic There genuinely isn’t anywhere quieter. That’s rather the point. Any more than there is anywhere where you could say confidential things out loud without being overheard.
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@LarcombePeter @pash22 @NHSEngland @GreatOrmondSt @tortus_AI @sib313 @mancunianmedic One of the interview subjects said the noise and language issues meant they used to dictate into after the consultation, rather than live, like you could do somewhere quieter
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@BenClover @pash22 @NHSEngland @GreatOrmondSt @tortus_AI @sib313 @mancunianmedic In order to be able to use this I’d need both silence and privacy in the ED.
Neither is available.
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@drokane @pash22 @NHSEngland @GreatOrmondSt @tortus_AI @sib313 @mancunianmedic they calculated it off the "reduction in documentation time"
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@pash22 @NHSEngland @GreatOrmondSt @tortus_AI @BenClover @sib313 @mancunianmedic How is the money saved exactly
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@parthaskar @MFAminGP @clifford0584 w/ a fair few caveats, clinicians in the qual.bit of the report seemed enthused, but yep there are a lot of AVT firms out there trying to get signed. Such that NHSE had to write to everyone to ask them to comply with what rules there are hsj.co.uk/technology-and…
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@MFAminGP @BenClover @clifford0584 the BS meter is jangling
AI is the new grift in town- so the wheels are turning to ensure companies get their slice of the NHS pie
Onwards 😊
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@LarcombePeter @pash22 @NHSEngland @GreatOrmondSt @tortus_AI @sib313 @mancunianmedic people did mention that as a factor in the qualitative bit
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@pash22 @NHSEngland @GreatOrmondSt @tortus_AI @BenClover @sib313 @mancunianmedic I doubt it. My ED has far too much background noise for any voice-recognition device to function
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@BenClover @parthaskar @clifford0584 I am intrigued even more now 😂 Would be interesting to read the actual paper.
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@MFAminGP @parthaskar @clifford0584 York Health Economics Consortium did the £-bit and note the limitation of extrapolating up from research at one ED
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@BenClover @parthaskar @clifford0584 Any critical thoughts on the modelling used to calculate the savings?
At this rate 12 hr wait should become history in NHs
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