How financial pressures are driving innovation

A webinar series has looked at how bold thinking, patient focus, and data-driven insights are reshaping the future of the NHS. An expert panel of healthcare leaders came together to outline a blueprint for a more agile, efficient and patient-focused NHS.

The sixth installment of the Strasys influential "Thinking Differently" webinar series, titled "There is no money, now what?", brought together some of the UK's most respected voices in health policy, clinical practice and innovation. With the arrival of the NHS 10-Year Health Plan, the session tackled an urgent question: how do we release trapped value and deliver better care when there is no new money?

Below are some of the key insights from the expert panel, offering a blueprint for a more agile, efficient and patient-focused NHS.

Sally Gainsbury, Senior Policy Analyst, Nuffield Trust, a former investigative journalist and NHS commentator, opened the session by dismantling the idea that money alone can fix the NHS. She pointed to a £37bn funding gap when compared with historic trends and explained how inflation and rising demand are swallowing resources*.

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