Fixing information flow: the missing step in NHS digital change

By Kate Isbey on Feb 25, 2026

In the NHS pressure builds in waves. Winter surges. Capacity crises. Workforce shortages. Technology programmes that promised change but delivered more complexity instead, in a very similar way to what we have seen as a team with our work with the Police forces we’ve worked with.

Dr Simon Eccles has spent decades working in A&E, operating at the sharpest edge of the NHS. He has seen the demand for services, people unsure where to obtain the best care, and frustrated patients, whilst watching his colleagues try to do their absolute best. His perspective on digital change in healthcare is shaped by that experience. It is not abstract. It is grounded in what actually helps clinicians do their jobs and what impedes them.

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Why you can't staff your way out of NHS demand

By Kate Isbey on Feb 5, 2026

What decades on the frontline reveal about system-generated demand, avoidable work, and where meaningful change really starts.

Dr Simon Eccles has spent decades working in A&E as a senior doctor and serving on countless boards across London. He is also a thought leader on the best technology for the NHS, and he sat down with us to discuss ways the NHS can improve its use of Salesforce. With all his years of experience, he has seen winter pressures come and go, targets change, restructurings repeat, and countless workforce initiatives introduced with good intent. His view is not theoretical. It is lived.

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