New patient coalition launched for digital health technology
A new coalition with members from Royal Colleges, health charities and patient groups has come together to ensure the interests of patients are at the heart of the development of policy in digital health technology.
The Patient Coalition for AI, Data and Digital Tech in Health is the first coalition to unite such a diverse range of stakeholders from across the health policy landscape in order to champion the patient perspective in this field.
Involving patients in policy
The Coalition will act as an independent campaigning coalition, taking forward joint pieces of work and engaging actively to help influence Government and NHS policy on the use of digital technology in healthcare. The goal will be to ensure patient interests are at the forefront of ongoing media and policy discussions surrounding digital health tech, and being incorporated into the policymaking process. The goal is to cultivate the necessary policy conditions to enable the UK to capitalise on new digital health technologies to the benefit of patients and the NHS.
Coalition agenda
Issues Coalition members have committed to tackling include:
- Examining health inequalities and calling for the prioritisation of access to digital health.
- Sharing best patient-centric practice in digital health.
- Ensuring the patient perspective is embedded in policy and government strategies.
Coalition structure
The current members of the Coalition are:
- Asthma UK
- Boehringer Ingelheim
- British Lung Foundation
- British Heart Foundation
- Diabetes UK
- Fight for Sight
- Parkinson’s UK
- Patient Information Forum
- Patient Safety Learning
- The Patients Association
- Royal College of Pathologists
- Royal College of Radiologists
- Stroke Association
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