Simon Burns returned to the Department of Health last week having previously served there in 1996-7 and then as a shadow for five years as well as time on the Health Select Committee. So he comes with insight and experience that will be sorely needed as the new team grasp the nettle of how to transform the NHS IT ‘project’. It cannot simply be ‘scrapped’, nor should what IT can deliver in efficiencies and communications leading to improved patient care. As reviewers of our Fixing NHS IT report said:
“Using IT properly can have huge benefits for patients and the NHS. We need an approach which helps the NHS us IT more productively to improve patient care……. whoever takes NHS IT forward should not ignore this report!”
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About Julia Manning
Julia is a social pioneer, writer and campaigner. She studied visual science at City University and became a member of the College of Optometrists in 1991, later specialising in visual impairment and diabetes. During her career in optometry, she lectured at City University, was a visiting clinician at the Royal Free Hospital and worked with Primary Care Trusts. She ran a domiciliary practice across south London and was a Director of the UK Institute of Optometry.
Julia formed 20/20Health in 2006. Becoming an expert in digital health solutions, she led on the NHS–USA Veterans’ Health Digital Health Exchange Programme and was co-founder of the Health Tech and You Awards with Axa PPP and the Design Museum. Her research interests are now in harnessing digital to improve personal health, and she is a PhD candidate in Human Computer Interaction (HCI) at UCL. She is also dedicated to creating a sustainable Whole School Wellbeing Community model for schools that builds relationships, discovers assets and develops life skills. She is a member of the Royal Society of Medicine’s Digital Health Council.
Julia has shared 2020health's research widely in the media (BBC News, ITV, Channel 5 News, BBC 1′s The Big Questions & Victoria Derbyshire, BBC Radio 4 Today, PM and Woman's Hour, LBC) and has taken part in debates and contributed to BBC’s Newsnight, Panorama, You and Yours and ITV’s The Week.
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