Twenty-six of ‘the most digitally advanced’ NHS Trusts have been invited by NHS England to apply for a ‘£100 m+ funding pot’ to ‘become centres of global digital excellence and drive forward better use of technology in health’.
In a bid to win up to £10 m each to invest in digital infrastructure and specialist training, the 26 acute Trusts will need to ‘demonstrate their potential to become world leaders in health informatics’. Between 10 and 16 will be selected to become ‘centres of global digital excellence’, and, once established, will ‘lead the way for the entire system to move faster in getting better information technology on the ground’.
NHS England will ‘partner’ the Trusts selected. The centres will be announced at this month’s NHS Health and Care Innovation Expo event in Manchester, where IT expert, Professor Bob Wachter, will outline recommendations ‘to galvanise use of technology in the NHS’.
