We get our news, shopping and do our banking online, but now we can manage our health online too. I see digital NHS services at the heart of creating a better, more improved, patient-centred NHS where people feel more involved in their health and care.
In each issue we investigate a hot topic currently affecting you and your community practice. Here, Jason Beckford-Ball looks at providing cash incentives for healthy behaviour and asks...
...Should we be paying people to get better?
Getting people to take their medicine (literally and metaphorically) has always been a problem in health care, but a new study has reignited the debate about providing cash incentives for people to adopt healthy lifestyles.