Hot off the press! TAPPI to get a further boost

We are delighted that Dunhill Medical Trust (DMT) announced at the December 2021 Housing LIN Summit – A Festival of Ideas session on 'Getting switched onto technology: the big insights' its intention to now invest £1m to test out the 10 TAPPI principles across several local housing, health and adult social care economies in the UK.

In doing so, TAPPI 2 aims to create a practical and useful framework which will help ensure that the substantial funding commitment to help to unlock the potential of caretech innovation recently outlined in the recent government White Paper: People at the Heart of Care, is well spent.

Speaking at this afternoon’s Housing LIN Summit, Susan Kay – CEO of Dunhill Medical Trust – said:

“We intend to gather the evidence of what is possible and challenge what is perceived to be impossible, building upon the learning gathered during the pandemic and creating new housing service models using technology enabled care which supports personalisation and, simply, delivers better outcomes for people, more widely and more consistently.  Housing LIN’s impressive work on the TAPPI Report has laid the foundations for this next important step. We look forward to working with them and other partners to make TAPPI a reality, to inform and guide what good looks like in tech-enabled care and, above all, deliver the outcomes that older people want.”

Chaired by Professor Roy Sandbach OBE and supported by the DMT, the TAPPI Inquiry – and by extension the 2021 report - was about listening, gaining insights and creating a set of overarching principles that can inform a new framework for all stakeholders to refer to in the context of how technology can transform the landscape of everyday living environments for older and disabled people.