Speaking at the HSJ Digital Transformation Summit, Health Secretary Sajid Javid set out his priorities to focus on personalised care, levelling up and harnessing the power of technology breakthroughs.

Delivering his first health technology focused speech since his appointment, and ahead of the publication of a Digital Health Plan later this year, Javid said that patients and health and care staff across the country will benefit from more personalised, easier to access, digitally delivered health and care.

The ambitions announced include for 90 per cent of NHS trusts to have Electronic Patient Records in place or be processing them by December 2023 and for all social care providers to adopt a digital social care record, and for 75 per cent of adults in England to use the NHS App by March 2024, and expand functions on estimated waiting times and personalised advice. This will help people manage their health by having access to their data, including their GP health records, as well as make it easier to order repeat prescriptions, book appointments online and register preferences for services, such as organ donation, which will save lives.

The Digital Health Plan is expected to build on lessons learned from the pandemic and drive change across the digital health space.