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Episode 2: AI and Automation
If you’re a certain age, you’ll remember the Blair years, and the mantra of “education, education, education” that ran through them.
Fast forward a couple of decades and it seems that automation, automation, automation is the name of the game. Automation, and its big brother, Artificial Intelligence, are certain to save the day. Unless they destroy us first, of course.
In this podcast we’ll look at the smart algorithms that are the NHS’s non-human workers. Are they saviours or snake oil?
Host: Alex Curling
Guests: James Parker, Richard Wheeler
Episode 1: The Productivity Puzzle
If you’re talking about the NHS – and it seems most people are – the conversation won’t get far before the P word is mentioned. Not patients. Productivity. It’s become a boardroom buzzword, as well as a key theme on the political battlefield.
But what, exactly, do we mean when we talk about productivity for the NHS? How much does it matter? And how can it be improved?
In this podcast, we’ll take a closer look at the NHS’s productivity puzzle, sorting the facts from the fiction to see what really makes a difference.
Host: Alex Curling
Guests: Alice Donovan-Hart, Stephen Sutcliffe, Raine Pell
Productivity has slipped by 11% in the acute sector compared with pre-pandemic levels (NHS England » NHS productivity)
NHS productivity isn’t being captured by official statistics, says NHS England CEO (Measures of NHS productivity do not reflect reality, says NHS England chief | The BMJ)
Every £1 spent on the NHS has a corresponding economic benefit of £4 (nhsconfed.org)
“A unified service is felt to still represent the best value and most desirable option, as opposed to a federated system with providers and commissioners all pursuing separate platforms”
Amanda Pritchard
Chief Executive Officer
NHS England
“There is a need, now more than ever, for providers to work in partnership with commissioners to identify recurrent savings at the system level.”
Sir Julian Hartley
Chief Executive
NHS Providers
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