Acute Appitis is the fix

Trust us - it’s a Tony Blair idea

On 1 August 2025, the Tony Blair Institute released The NHS at a Crossroads: The App That Can Transform Britain’s Health.

The document was written by three experts. One is a physician who worked “alongside Sir Patrick Vallance and Sir John Bell, her thought leadership contributes significantly to policy discussions of social-care policy, biotechnology and health care in the AI era”. The second is ex-WHO, and the third is a techie who worked on the digital health record, a unicorn project. 

But we are digressing. The document is 55 pages long, but despite its title, it does not offer a diagnosis of the NHS's many ills, some of which have been documented in TTE.

Trifles such as being a dredger of public money, having massive waiting lists, Big Mac-sized bureaucracy, strict censorship, stonewalls and waste at every corner. Oh yes, let’s not forget excess mortality and shortening of life expectancy.

 The document goes straight to the solution: an App, not like the current one, which offers th…