Rachel Hope, director of digital prevention providers at NHS England (Credit score: NHSE)
Digital know-how agency Kainos, alongside a consortium of smaller firms, has secured a contract to strengthen NHS digital capabilities for preventative healthcare in England.
The award by means of NHS England’s Digital Prevention Service Portfolio (DPSP), price round £45m to £68m, will enhance entry to vaccinations and screenings by means of the NHS App and speed up the supply of personalised healthcare in keeping with the ten yr well being plan.
Kainos will work with Public Digital, Baringa, Healthia, Helix Centre, Scroll and Ethos, for as much as three years to scale the Digital NHS well being test service, enabling residents to finish well being assessments and obtain tailor-made recommendation at house.
Daniel Kemp, healthcare director at Kainos, mentioned: “We have now a protracted historical past of supporting each NHS England and the NHS Digital Prevention Service, and we’re proud to be extending our partnership to advance this vital shift in direction of proactive, preventative care.
“By scaling digital well being checks, extending entry to vaccinations and screenings, and embedding preventative assist into on a regular basis NHS care pathways, we’re serving to the NHS to ship extra personalised and accessible care, cut back stress on frontline providers, and enhance well being outcomes throughout the nation.”
The contract covers supply of main cross-cutting initiatives inside the prevention portfolio, such because the vaccinations and screening medical file, vaccinations digital providers and personalised prevention providers.
It’s going to embody the launch of recent digital sources to assist self-care, together with psychological well being instruments, weight administration assist, and diabetes threat discount pathways.
Kainos and its companions will work as a part of blended NHSE product groups, offering engineering, user-centred design, and knowledge experience to constantly iterate and enhance these dwell providers, whereas additionally supporting the event of the broader DPSP technique and prioritisation framework.
The programme is meant to enhance uptake and early detection by offering residents with a transparent view of their vaccination and screening standing by means of the NHS App and enhancing nationwide vaccination knowledge flows and providers to assist extra environment friendly rollout, higher uptake and diminished inequalities.
Talking on the Healthcare Excellence by means of Expertise Convention in October 2025, Rachel Hope, director of digital prevention providers at NHSE, mentioned: “After we take into consideration therapy, we’re speaking a few finite group of people who find themselves sick, but prevention is about your entire inhabitants.
“To achieve everybody, we want digital providers that empower folks to work together straight and get the assist they should keep nicely.”
The NHS 10 yr well being plan, revealed on 3 July 2025, helps the ambition to make at-home testing and well being checks extra accessible to assist shift care from hospital to group, from analogue to digital, and from illness to prevention.
