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TAPPI Cast – 17 March 2023

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TAPPI partners are looking forward to TSA’s annual conference ITEC23 (opens new window) starting on Monday, 27th March, a two-day event that will bring together leaders in the TEC field to explore how collaborative working, integration, and technology are shaping the future of social care services. The programme (opens new window)includes two TAPPI related sessions on day 1:

  • At 1pm, on the Innovation Stage, hear the latest from the TAPPI project in a session chaired by Roy Sandbach, chair of the TAPPI Steering board, who will be joined by TAPPI partners' representatives.
  • From 4pm, our co-production partners Pete Fleischmann and Jolie Goodman, from Co-production Works, along with some of our co-production tenants champion, will facilitate a Knowledge & Networking session entitles ‘A blessing and a curse? - Co-producing the introduction of assistive technology in later life housing schemes’.

TSA are offering Housing LIN members the opportunity to attend, free of charge, this conference on 27 & 28 March at the International Conference Centre (The ICC) in Birmingham. This offer is limited to 50 tickets, so please book you place quickly to ensure you can secure a ticket. (When asked if you have been issued a booking code, please select YES - Then input the following code: ITEC2023/TAPPI-2)

Updates from our Testbeds:

The TAPPI team at Bield have been working towards the opening of the digital demonstration hub in Linlithgow and getting tenants signed up to the proactive telecare trial. The furniture and the finishing touches for the demonstration rooms at the hub have been ordered and we are in the process of ordering the technology. The team have procured the technology for the proactive telecare trial and are clarifying the list of tenants who will be participating so we can begin the install process towards the end of March.

On Thursday, Platform Housing collected 42 Samsung Galaxy tablets (opens new window) from their TEC partner, Community Housing. We can't wait to distribute these tablets to Harling Court residents, and beginning targeted coaching on using the devices for independence-enabling skills such as online shopping, banking, video calling, instant messaging, and medication monitoring.

Publication of interest:

TSA published this week the March edition of their industry magazine TEC Voice. It includes an update on the TAPPI project with staff champions at our six testbeds working with tenant champions to explore how technology can improve their lives.

Beyond 2025 – take part in this care technology in housing survey - Supported by Tunstall Healthcare, the leading provider of care technology, the Housing LIN is pleased to promote this period of consultation to map the future of digitally enabled care services in the housing space and better understand the needs for digitally enabled care services in housing environment beyond the digital communications switchover in December 2025. Please take part by Monday, 27 March.

The King's Fund has published a paper on digital health and care inclusion entitled ‘Moving from exclusion to inclusion in digital health and care’. The authors of this paper explain that digital technologies can change how care is delivered, making health and care services more accessible, flexible, person centred, and a better experience for patients and staff while also improving efficiency. However, there is no guarantee of these positive effects until digitally enabled services are inclusive and meet the expectations of staff and the public.

Events of interest:

Click here (opens new window) for a list of all forthcoming TAPPI related events, including:

  • TSA's ITEC23 conference (opens new window) 27th & 28th March in Birmingham - Join us for an incredible opportunity to hear from industry experts, network with peers and find out more about TAPPI developments.
  • DMT's Annual Lectures 2023 (opens new window) 30th March in London (free) - this year's topic is 'suitable living environments and communities for older people' and will be showcasing the awards made under this theme, including the second phase of TAPPI. Important: following the announcement of planned national rail strikes (including on the 30th March), DMT have taken the decision to change the format of the event. Visit the website for more information.