Government to invest up to £10bn to bring NHS ‘into the digital age’

Spending Review: NHS promised £10bn tech warchest

Money spent on new tech and transformative initiatives over the next four years will include investments in improving the NHS App, as well as introducing a unified single patient record The government has pledged to spend an additional £10bn on NHS technology in the next four years – a figure which it claims represents an investment increase of 50%. This week’s Spending Review revealed that the annual capital budget for the Department of Health …

Government to invest up to £10bn to bring NHS ‘into the digital age’

Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced that the government will invest up to £10bn in NHS tech “to bring our analogue health system into the digital age”, as part of the latest spending review.  The funding boost is part of a £29bn real terms increase in annual NHS day-to-day spending from 2023-2024 to 2028-2029, which the government said in a press release will get the health service “back on its feet and fit for the future”. Speaking in the House …