Exploring the Future of Community Healthcare: Digostics Joins Contracts for Innovation Cymru for GTT@home Discussions

Digostics was recently invited by Contracts for Innovation Cymru to contribute to a series of exploratory workshops held across Wales. These sessions brought together healthcare providers, industry, government and patient groups to explore the art of the possible in shaping the future of care closer to home.

With a particular focus on improving access to care for rural, remote and disadvantaged communities, the workshops provided an opportunity to:

1.  Enable suppliers such as Digostics to showcase the proven success of delivering critical care and diagnostic services beyond traditional clinical settings and by bringing them directly to the patient or expectant mother.

2.  Explore the role that emerging healthcare spaces, such as modular, pop-up or mobile facilities, could play in service delivery, and to identify the considerations required to ensure equitable, high-quality care regardless of where it is provided.

This forum brought together a diverse mix of regional clinicians, healthcare providers, local policymakers, design specialists, integration experts, and technology innovators. It was a vibrant environment where shared challenges could be openly examined, and future-focused solutions collaboratively imagined.

A Shared Commitment: Taking Healthcare to the Patient

At Digostics, we are driven by the belief that technology can - and should - take healthcare out of the clinic and deliver it directly to the people who need it. This event provided an opportunity to showcase GTT@home, demonstrate what is possible today, and participate in a wider workshop exploring how new models of care could be designed around accessibility, accuracy, and equity.

The workshop examined:
Opportunities and risks associated with pop-up or mobile diagnostic spaces

•  Technology and infrastructure requirements

• Use-cases for geographically targeted or condition-specific healthcare pods

• Architectural and digital foundations needed to support these new care models

The session encouraged genuine future-gazing - with no idea considered too ambitious if it could improve care for individuals who are often disenfranchised by traditional, centralised health systems. Whether due to travel difficulties, cost barriers, mobility challenges, or broader socioeconomic disadvantages, too many people still find it hard to access essential healthcare. This was the challenge the group worked collectively to address.

Diagnostics at the Point of Need - Without Compromising Accuracy

The Digostics contribution naturally centred on diabetes testing and screening, where we have deep expertise. We advocated strongly for the benefits of bringing diagnostics directly to the end patient - removing the need to travel to a clinic - but emphasised that increased accessibility must never come at the cost of diagnostic accuracy.

There is growing evidence that well-intentioned community-based screening initiatives can sometimes unintentionally compromise sample integrity due to pre-analytical factors. Poorly controlled conditions, delays, and manual handling can all undermine test reliability.

GTT@home protects accuracy through its immediate, on-site analysis - removing the vulnerabilities associated with sending samples to a central lab. This is the kind of safeguard that must remain front and centre when designing new community care pathways. 

Our view is clear: Better that healthcare providers adopt proven technologies that deliver accurate diagnostics in the home than rely on pop-up facilities that risk creating a two-tier testing system - one for those who can attend hospitals and one for those who cannot.

A Collaborative Vision for Accessible Healthcare

Our biggest takeaway from this event was the sheer energy and excitement generated when clinicians, policymakers, designers, and technology innovators come together with a shared purpose: to use technology as a force for good and ensure equitable access to healthcare for all.

The workshop was not just a discussion about modular buildings or new devices - it was about rethinking how health systems can include everyone, irrespective of geography, mobility, or circumstance.  Digostics was delighted to take part and would like to thank and congratulate Contracts for Innovation Cymru for the invitation and for hosting such a successful event. We look forward to contributing to the next stages of this important work.

You can learn more about Contracts for Innovation Cymru and the fantastic work the organisation undertakes by visiting www.contractsforinnovation.cymru/