Rishi Sunak being grilled by senior MPs
Up next is Steve Brine, of the health select committee, who quotes Chancellor Jeremy Hunt and asks the PM to identity which parts of the NHS are “woefully inefficient”.
Sunak responds that the NHS has it’s own productivity plan – not decided by the government – and suggests it needs to adopt new digital technology.
Outdated IT systems, he says, have meant doctors and nurses have lost some 13 million hours of work each year.
He says the digitisation of operating theatre processes will allow hundreds of thousands of more operations per year, and that adopting recent technology will help doctors read MRI and CAT scans more accurately.
The PM also says the NHS app can be improved to streamline appointments, which would reduce missed appointments by half a million.
Published at Tue, 26 Mar 2024 11:51:57 +0000