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The NHS's new boss will on Wednesday urge the service to become a world leader in personalised medicine, which uses a patient's genetic profile to devise better treatments.
Simon Stevens, the chief executive of NHS England, will use his first major policy speech to embrace the potential of what he calls an ongoing "global medical revolution" that holds out the prospect of patients having a better chance of beating diseases such as cancer.
Stevens is expected to tell the annual conference of the NHS Confederation, at which about 2,000 NHS managers will gather in Liverpool, that the NHS could benefit significantly from what he believes are "three quite fundamental shifts in the practice of modern medicine: a coming revolution in biomedicine, in data for quality and proactive care, [and] in the role that patients play in controlling their own health and care".
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/jun/04/nhs-boss-world-leader-personalised-medicine
Simon Stevens, the chief executive of NHS England, will use his first major policy speech to embrace the potential of what he calls an ongoing "global medical revolution" that holds out the prospect of patients having a better chance of beating diseases such as cancer.
Stevens is expected to tell the annual conference of the NHS Confederation, at which about 2,000 NHS managers will gather in Liverpool, that the NHS could benefit significantly from what he believes are "three quite fundamental shifts in the practice of modern medicine: a coming revolution in biomedicine, in data for quality and proactive care, [and] in the role that patients play in controlling their own health and care".
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/jun/04/nhs-boss-world-leader-personalised-medicine