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Enhancing patient safety at Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust

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Netty Messenger, a patient and volunteer at Musgrove Park Hospital, welcomed the trust’s progress towards mobile working: “This is a great idea. I do banking and shopping online and get my prescriptions online, but hospitals still seem to have mountains of paper. It would be much better to have all the patient’s information in one place in an app like this.

“If doctors are able to pay more attention to their patients instead of having to chase up test results, that has got to be a very good thing.”

Dr Dominic King, clinical lead at DeepMind Health, said: “Nurses and doctors already using Streams are telling us that it is helping them deliver faster and better care for their patients. The Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust is well known for its pioneering approach to healthcare technology, so it’s incredibly exciting to be working with the outstanding clinical team there, on the shared goal of improving outcomes for patients.” 

Tom Edwards, a consultant surgeon at the trust, said: “Fast access to information about patients is absolutely crucial for our doctors, nurses, and other clinical staff.

“Safety alerts will be immensely useful, but it is important to remember that – whatever technology we use – it will still be our highly trained and expert staff who are making decisions about diagnosis, treatment and patient care.”

As one of the NHS’s 16 global digital exemplar acute trusts, Taunton and Somerset aims to be one of the most innovative hospital trusts in the NHS. Over the next five years, we’ll be working with the trust and their long-term partner in the digital exemplar programme, IMS MAXIMS, to roll out this cutting-edge technology for a range of medical conditions where early intervention can make all the difference.

Source: https://deepmind.com/blog/article/taunton-and-somerset-nhs-foundation-trust-partnership

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