Digital and information

No final recommendations have been published. Interim recommendations on observation, monitoring technology and resuscitation were under consideration after the October 2026 hearings, and had not been issued by 21 October 2026.

To be determined

Deliver estates and digital systems that are fit for maternity and neonatal care, with dated investment commitments. Thirlwall recorded this as a recommendation of the Amos final report.

DHSC and NHS England

Commission standard templates for advice-and-guidance requests and responses, with the royal colleges, so the information exchanged is consistent.

NHS England, DHSC and royal colleges

Fit in-cot cameras in every neonatal unit, with ring-fenced national funding and a roadmap by March 2027.

NHS England

Set a dated route to interoperable hospital systems so neonatal information is entered once and can be watched continuously.

NHS England

Shift care from hospital to neighbourhood, from paper and siloed systems to digital, and from treating sickness to prevention.

NHS and government

Use data, analytics and technology as a main way of knowing whether care is good.

NHS England

Use the diagnosis as the brief for a ten-year plan built on community, digital and prevention.

Government

Rebuild CQC's assessment approach and its technology, with clinical expertise back in inspection.

CQC and DHSC

Analyse NHS data inside trusted research environments rather than copying it out.

NHS England and government

Invest in the analyst workforce and in platforms, not only in one-off extracts.

NHS England

Give patients one story of their care, written so they can understand what was done.

Providers

Give screening a single senior owner and replace obsolete IT.

NHS England

Train every clinician in data and digital skills, and build specialist informatics careers.

Education bodies

Introduce technology only where it releases time for care and is safe in practice.

NHS

Fund and phase hospital digitisation, with chief clinical information officers in post.

NHS England

Require systems to exchange data, rather than locking information inside one supplier.

NHS England