Millions of people will receive devices and apps free on the NHS to help them manage conditions such as diabetes and heart disease in an major drive to use technology to reduce patient deaths. NHS England's chief executive, Simon Stevens, has backed the move as a significant expansion of self-care that could help prevent patients becoming seriously unwell and needing hospital treatment.
1.1 Strategic context The Five Year Forward View recognises the need for the NHS and social care to harness the information revolution to meet the fundamental challenges facing us - the health and wellbeing gap, the care and quality gap, and the funding and efficiency gap.