EHI Live Interview: Dr Mark Davies

The executive medical director of the Health and Social Care Information Centre sat down with reporter Rebecca Todd to discuss the power of information in the new NHS landscape.

The balance of power is shifting, says Dr Mark Davies, the executive medical director of the Health and Social Care Information Centre.

It is shifting away from the primacy of technology as a disruptive force towards the essential role of information. It is shifting away from those who provide services towards those who plan and buy them.

And it is shifting away from “old school” information governance that prevented information sharing at the cost of patient safety, towards sharing as a priority.