Shopping centre scans and time-saving tech – can ideas like these help save the NHS?

“That was really quick – straight in, straight out,” says Phil Brown as he leaves a smart glass building in a shopping centre in Barnsley.
He has just had an ultrasound scan at an NHS centre which sits between familiar High Street names. It is easy-to-reach healthcare – as convenient as popping out to the shops.
This is part of the government’s vision for the future of the NHS, soon to be set out in a 10-year plan. In England, ministers have already promised three big changes: shifting more services from hospitals into the community, focusing on preventing ill-health and making more use of new technology.
BBC Panorama spent months in South Yorkshire meeting people already changing how they work, to see what it will take to fix a health service which is buckling under increasing demand.
The NHS also has to cut waiting times, money is tight and the organisation which currently runs it, NHS England, is being scrapped to reduce bureaucracy.

Courtesy: BBC