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NHS trust’s Pioneer data platform joins up care delivery and improves outcomes
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust aims to improve patient care by bringing together anonymised health data from different care settings to better understand the patient journey
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University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust has implemented a data platform with near real-time data to improve care across its hospitals.
The Pioneer data platform, which the country’s largest NHS trust built together with Ensono, is essentially a research hub, linking up patient data from different healthcare settings to provide a full picture of a patient’s care journey.
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UK Health Secretary, Matt Hancock, has today announced the launch of the Genome UK 2021-2022 implementation plan.
Following the Genome UK policy paper published in September 2020, the plan outlines 27 priority actions for the next year that will help the UK to advance its ambition to become “the world’s most advanced genomic healthcare ecosystem”.
WHY IT MATTERS
The plan outlines 27 commitments to further genomics in the UK, with 5 key goals:
A partnership between Genomics England and NHS England/Improvement to enable faster and more comprehensive genomic testing of cancer
Whole genome sequencing for patients with rare diseases
Genome UK: 2021 to 2022 implementation plan
Details
Published in 2020, Genome UK: the future of healthcare set out a vision to create the most advanced genomic healthcare system in the world to deliver better healthcare at lower cost.
Following collaboration with key partners across the genomics community, priority actions for 2021 to 2022 have been set out in the implementation plan to progress key commitments made in Genome UK. Published 19 May 2021
19 May 2021
Government launches implementation plan to deliver world-leading genomic healthcare to patients, improving diagnosis, treatment and prevention
Diversity and reach of genomics set to expand through engagement and research programmes to better treat deadly diseases such as cancer
Patients across the UK will benefit from better healthcare, treatments and faster diagnosis as the government sets out how it will continue to deliver world-leading genomic healthcare.
Genomics is the study of genetic information and can help diagnose diseases earlier and more accurately, reduce some invasive procedures and enable tailored treatments. Building on the success of the 100,000 Genomes Project, our commitment is to sequence 1 million whole genomes – 500,000 genomes in the NHS and 500,000 in UK Biobank, which will transform healthcare in the UK and create jobs. In 2018 to 2019, genomics contributed £1.9 billion to our economy.