Health care systems around the world are battling with issues of accessibility and affordability of healthcare, whilst facing ever-rising levels of chronic disease and severe workforce shortages. Keeping up with the growing population and ensuring care to all is becoming harder and harder without technology-driven solutions. To tackle this, The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust (RWT) and Babylon are launching a 10-year partnership to develop a new healthcare delivery model of ‘Digital-First Integrated Care’, for 300,000 people across Wolverhampton and its surrounding areas. With this health integrated system, patients will get greater control over their own health, faster treatment, fewer trips to hospital, treatment from their own home and greater access to their own data. Staff will have time freed-up for patients with the most urgent and complex issues, avoid duplication, and improve information-sharing. All this means is that by providing digital options like video calls with your doctor, surgeries and offices are left open for patients who need to see a doctor in person. Smaller, more routine issues can be cleared up with a few minutes chatting via your phone. Think of the ever-present office worker experience of the group meeting that could have been an email. You won't have to waste your time traveling to see your doctor just for a quick question. Instead, you can see the next available doctor, usually within 2 hours, and get your question answered right away. Learn more about our US partners: https://www.babylonhealth.com/us/partnerships And our UK partners: https://www.babylonhealth.com/business-hub/babylon-for-business

• published: 27 Jan 2020
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