Healthcare in Thoughts from the Centre
Integrated Care Systems – looking back and thinking ahead
By Stephanie Diller, Senior Manager, Public Sector Health Strategy
In 2019, our Integrated Care System (ICS) blog series set out key considerations and questions faced by NHS organisations as they responded to the Long Term Plan’s (LTP) expectations for every NHS organisation to form part of an ICS. However, since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic the priorities of health and care shifted towards an emergency response, slowing the transformational progress of many organisations in forming an ICS. This blog builds on our previous insights, identifies learnings from the pandemic and explores the implications for ICS planning of the Government’s February 2021 white paper, Integration and innovation: working together to improve health and social care. More specifically, it identifies the barriers that need to be overcome and the challenges ICS stakeholders will need to address when designing and implementing the integration changes that are needed to improve population health.
Busting myths around 5G and exploring its applications in healthcare
By Krissie Ferris, Research Analyst, Centre for Health Solutions, and Cornelia Calugar-Pop, Manager, Technology, Media and Telecommunications
Last month, our colleagues in Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT) released their 2021 predictions report, which highlights how global trends in TMT may affect businesses and consumers worldwide. One of the predictions, 5G is not hazardous to your health; Busting the radiation myth, addresses concerns that ‘radiation associated with the technology can cause cancer and weaken the immune system enabling COVID-19 to spread’. This blog explains some of the evidence presented in the TMT prediction to dispel these concerns while also exploring 5G’s potential in transforming healthcare.
The silent pandemic – how COVID-19 is exacerbating loneliness
By Samrina Bhatti, Manager, and Krissie Ferris, Research Analyst, Deloitte Centre for Health Solutions
Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, loneliness was already recognised as a significant public health issue with government publishing the world’s first strategy to end loneliness, ‘A connected society: a strategy for tackling loneliness’ in October 2018.1 According to the Campaign to End Loneliness, there are nine million lonely people in the UK, four million of whom are older people.2 Throughout the pandemic, measures such as lockdowns, shielding, and limiting contact with others while essential to help stop the spread of the virus, have left millions more dealing with loneliness, social isolation and lengthy separations. This week’s blog therefore, explores how COVID-19 has influenced the scale and extent of loneliness and the actions needed to help improve future health outcomes and reduce demand on health and care services.
The Year Ahead: the public health impact of COVID-19
By Karen Taylor, Director, Deloitte Centre for Health Solutions
Earlier this week I joined my fellow Insight Leads as a panellist on a Deloitte Academy virtual event discussing ‘The Year Ahead’.1 My remit was to discuss the current extent and mitigations of the COVID-19 pandemic, and how the next 12 months might unfold. Unfortunately, the past month has seen a sharp rise in cases across many countries and the introduction of more severe restrictions. In the UK we have seen the continued escalation in the number of people testing positive, the NHS under more intense pressure than at any other time during the pandemic. The UK has also seen the rollout of two approved vaccines and a third national lockdown. My expectations for the year ahead reflect this increasingly complex and rapidly evolving situation and the developments likely to affect public health during 2021.
Healthcare and life sciences unmasked: A future accelerated by COVID-19
By Karen Taylor, Director, Deloitte Centre for Health Solutions
Over the last few weeks of 2020 we published a series of ten predictions on what the future of healthcare and life sciences looks like in 2025. Each prediction follows the same format, including a number of ‘portraits’ imagining the experience of individuals and organisations in 2025, the evidence today that enables us to predict tomorrow and the common constraints that need to be overcome to realise the prediction. We also considered how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected each prediction. Subsequently, we brought all of the predictions together in one report: The future unmasked: Predicting the future of healthcare and life sciences in 2025 and launched a podcast with senior leaders from our life sciences and healthcare practice discussing how the predictions affect their parts of the industry. I have used this first blog of 2021 to examine the cross cutting constraints that need to be overcome to realise our view of the future.
Movember 2020: Be a man of more words
By Fraser MacDonald-Lister, Analyst, Human Capital, and Jack Hilton, Consultant, Enterprise Technology and Performance
December is upon us and, around the world, thousands of men are left with cold upper lips where a charity moustache once grew. Movember, the leading global organisation committed to changing the face of men’s health, is about much more than just facial hair and fundraising, they are working around the world to grow awareness of prostate cancer, testicular cancer, mental health and suicide prevention.1 This year, more than 150 Mo Bros, Sistas and Supporters from Deloitte UK took part in the follicular festivities, raising awareness and funds for the charity whilst sparking many conversations across the virtual office.
The future unmasked: conscious care and greater collaboration
By Karen Taylor, Samrina Bhatti and Krissie Ferris, Deloitte Centre for Health Solutions
This is the last week in the staggered launch of the final two predictions in our report ‘The future unmasked: Predicting the future of healthcare and life sciences in 2025’. Our predictions: ‘Healthcare and life sciences companies have prioritised decarbonisation’, and ‘Clusters of trusted partnerships have accelerated innovation’ explore two crucial developments in the evolving relationship between the stakeholders in the health ecosystem. These are the increased priority companies are giving to reducing their carbon footprints and the growth in trusted partnerships and collaborations between stakeholders. We also examine the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic has had in accelerating the pace of change.
The future unmasked: In 2025, healthcare is integrated, digital-first, and patient-centred
By Karen Taylor, Samrina Bhatti and Krissie Ferris, Deloitte Centre for Health Solutions
This is week three in our staggered launch of our predictions report ‘The future unmasked: Predicting the future of healthcare and life sciences in 2025’. This week, we have released predictions five and six: ‘Care is designed around people not place’ and ‘Medtech and the IOMT are crucial drivers of value-based care’. This week’s blog explores these two predictions.
The future unmasked: how healthcare professionals will work differently in 2025
By Karen Taylor, Samrina Bhatti and Krissie Ferris, Deloitte Centre for Health Solutions
Last week, we published the first two of our ten predictions in our report, ‘The future unmasked: Predicting the future of healthcare and life sciences in 2025’. This week, we launch predictions three and four, ‘Clinicians are empowered by new diagnostic and treatment paradigms’ and ‘The who, what and where of work re-architected’. This week’s blog provides an overview of predictions three and four.
The future unmasked: healthy ageing and better public health
By Karen Taylor, Samrina Bhatti and Krissie Ferris, Deloitte Centre for Health Solutions
Over the past few months we have been developing ten predictions for our report, ‘The future unmasked: Predicting the future of healthcare and life sciences in 2025’. The predictions are brought to life through a number of ‘portraits’ imagining what the experience of individuals might look like in 2025, together with examples of the evidence available today to predict tomorrow. We also consider the key constraints that will need to be overcome to realise our view of the future and look at the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic is having on shaping each prediction. This week, we have launched the first two of our ten predictions: ‘From health(care) to healthy ageing’, and ‘Better public health drives better productivity’. This week’s blog provides a short history of the evolution of our predictions reports and selected highlights from our first two predictions.