We have signed a Digital Inclusion Charter and as part of this commitment we will support a comprehensive programme of work around digital inclusivity. The programme will help patients, carers, and staff, so they can navigate the health and wellbeing risks of the internet and social media.
It will also help people with low digital skills to understand how their health data is used and explain and encourage the benefits digital can offer for their health and wellbeing. Digital access and skills can affect our health (a social determinant of health), so in supporting digital inclusivity we will tackle inequalities.
We have committed to co-design digital health solutions with the public, placing patients at the heart of the design. We will develop “digital health hubs” to reach poorly served groups, reduce digital inequalities, and build trust in the technologies that we think can help people and the health service. At the forefront of our future design of buildings, we will be exploring and using the benefits of digital health and wellbeing, ensuring that patients, and carers, are not excluded whilst testing devices and assistive technologies.