Since the first UK lockdown one year ago, Covid-19 has catalysed the adoption of telehealth. Last year, a report by Deloitte found that, as a result of the pandemic, 78 per cent of UK clinical organisations had increased their use of digital technologies to assist staff. Eighty per cent had implemented tech in order to boost remote patient engagement. “We’re basically witnessing ten years of change in one week,” Dr. Sam Wessely, a general practitioner based in London, told the New York Times last April.
The scope of telehealth is massive, spanning physical and mental health services. Some treatments are wellsuited to remote arrangements, and there can be cost or time savings for both the healthcare provider and the patient who no longer has to travel to an appointment.
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