A new take on care in the community : how digital transformation and technology is changing the healthcare landscape
A new take on care in the community : how digital transformation and technology is changing the healthcare landscape
When I started this job I didn ' t fully understand what an NHS community trust was , but let ’ s just say I ’ ve learned a lot and have become more and more enamoured with the NHS ,” Diarmaid Crean starts off with when we start talking about his role at the Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust , what it does and its journey towards digital transformation .
Crean ’ s background is extremely varied . He has worked in the fields of travel , finance , banking and e-commerce in the private sector before commencing a career in the public sector after working as a civil servant before joining the Trust .
“ Most people , when you think about the NHS in general think about an acute hospital , or a GP , when the reality is the majority of care happens outside of both of these settings . Think of all the elderly patients receiving visits every day , maybe they are being supported for dementia or getting an insulin injection , maybe they ’ re in a care home . As a community trust , one of our biggest services is community nursing , or what was previously called district nursing .”
Diarmaid Crean Chief Digital and Technology Officer , Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust
96 December 2021