The Global Digital Exemplar (GDE) programme, run by NHSX, aims to create a cadre of high-performing trusts which other trusts can follow (in particular partner trusts, known as ’fast followers’). Despite the variation between the digital maturity of trusts, the National Audit Office found that the GDE programme had focused on improving the digital maturity of a small number of higher-performing trusts. In 2016–17, the programme committed to providing £385 million of funding between 26 relativ...

The Global Digital Exemplar (GDE) programme, run by NHSX, aims to create a cadre of high-performing trusts which other trusts can follow (in particular partner trusts, known as ’fast followers’). Despite the variation between the digital maturity of trusts, the National Audit Office found that the GDE programme had focused on improving the digital maturity of a small number of higher-performing trusts. In 2016–17, the programme committed to providing £385 million of funding between 26 relatively digitally-mature trusts to enable them to become world leaders (with smaller shares going to the fast followers).37 NHSX told us that it had moved fr Type: conclusion | Number: 19 | Response status: not_addressed