The health impacts of the ‘cost of living crisis’ started to become apparent, with think-tanks and medical bodies calling for government action to address them. The government instead ditched parts of its policy to tackle obesity. Trusts seeing the impact of rocketing inflation on their budgets have been told to make extra savings to stay in balance.
But digitalhealth.net reported that there may be money to help all trusts get to HIMSS Level-5, with the least digitised getting most in a reversal of global digital exemplar policy. In other tech news, London decided to roll out the Ortus-iHealth platform to support cardiac patients on its waiting list.
