Telecare eNewsletter July 2013

Welcome to the July 2013 newsletter from the Technology Strategy Board (TSB) Knowledge Transfer Network and the Telecare Learning and Improvement Network. We are grateful to the HealthTech & Medicines KTN and the TSB's Assisted Living Innovation Platform for providing newsletter funding for another year enabling us to continue to provide the most comprehensive newsletter available serving the telecare, telehealth, mobile health, digital health and assisted living communities.

Our free monthly newsletter is distributed to 48,000 subscribers in the UK and worldwide via e-mail and archived at www.telecarelin.org.uk. You can also find highlights on Prezi (monthly) or Rebelmouse (daily) or by following Mike Clark on Twitter (@clarkmike). With over 800 news and events links over the last month, we hope that you find this newsletter useful.

The Government has published its Spending Review which includes a £3.8bn integration programme for health and social care in England. There are continuing NHS pressures with further hospital, 111 and A&E reports. NHS England has published a call to action to address these challenges and the Department of Health is making adjustments to the NHS Mandate (including services for older people) as well as consulting on the next one. There are publications and draft regulations on social care changes including eligibility criteria. There are new announcements on dementia-friendly environments as well as supported housing. There is a new assisted living framework and resources from Skills for Care and videos and presentations are available from the recent King's Fund Congress on Telehealth and Telecare. There are a number of telehealth and telecare reports from around the UK as well as a summary of recent journal articles and upcoming events.

The links section (over 800 this month) is available in a separate supplement (pdf,doc).

The newsletter contains a list of KTN/ALIP activities, conferences and workshops from the UK and Europe over the coming weeks as well as news from the UK and around the world. For weekly news, updates and information, you can register with the Technology Strategy Board, ALIP group and the dallas sub-group. You can follow the dallas programme on Twitter at @dallas_connect. 3 Million Lives is on Twitter at @3MillLives and also at LinkedIn. If you would like daily information on #telecare and #telehealth, then a Twitter stream is available.