Mr. Richard Corbridge:

In the NHS the national programme for IT was alleged to have spent £13 billion sterling on technology and that was against a physical saving that the national programme for IT suggested it would make. We forget sometimes that the health care systems of the world are based on demand. If we make a system more efficient, it does not remove demand. It just means we can do more. Therefore, to say one would save money is not something that I believe a digital solution would do in the health system. It means that one can provide more care, be more efficient and deliver what one does more safely rather than return money to the system.