Although multimorbidity prevention is now recognised as a high priority [2], and forms part of the National Health Service (NHS) Long Term Plan [3], there are few established strategies with known effectiveness. Disease prevention is particularly challenging when conditions develop over a long ...
While most were unfamiliar with the term, many participants deduced it pertained to how their clinical data was handled across the NHS. Participants associated the meaning of interoperability with having inadequate levels of access to their own clinical information (i.e., via patient-facing online ...
‘It is better for you to seek the help that you need and it’s better in the long term also for your clinical practice or for your patients as well.’ (I11) Seeking help was seen as adding value to a doctor’s ability to deliver care to their patients, with the perception that c...
This reflects recent developments within the NHS, such as the Five-Year Forward View [17, 18] and the NHS Long-Term plan [20], which aim to develop Integrated Care Systems across regions of England by April 2021 for the efficient use of resources and the design of services. However, ...