Primary care networks and neighborhood health clinics will receive direct investment from these centralized hospital savings.
"They'll be reinvested outside the hospital. That is our intention.
Into things like neighbourhood health, so supporting our primary care partners," Kane said.
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Digital interventions like tele-dermatology have already demonstrated measurable success in lowering physical hospital visits.
"There's been a huge rise in skin cancer referrals… through doing this, we've been able to reduce in hospital referrals by 40%," Kane said.
Administrative savings have also been recorded through the reduction of missed outpatient consultations during initial trials.
"We've reduced our 'did not attends' by 21%… we've saved £1.4 million in postage alone," Kane said.
The institution secured the top national position for National Institute for Health and Care Research funding allocation.
"We are very proud of being the highest recipient of National Institute of Healthcare Research… we have just had as a combined organisation £3million of investment which is the highest in the country," Kane said.
This research funding will extend beyond physicians to encompass the entire nursing and healthcare support workforce.
"We are using that not just to enable medical research but research opportunities for nurses, for allied health professionals," Kane said.
The trust will assess its architectural portfolio, acknowledging the varying age and operational efficiency of its facilities.
"Many parts of our estate are very old and some parts are very high functioning and much newer," Kane said.
