Telecare eNewsletter November 2013
Welcome to the November 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.
Launched October 2005, our free monthly newsletter is now 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.
November saw the announcement of the 14 integration pioneers in England (read more about the pioneers and the Integration Transformation Fund in an additional supplement this month - doc, pdf). Integration is clearly the way ahead in the UK. Commissioners and providers will need to consider how technology supported services can be at the heart of integration plans as there is less and less overall money together with limited skilled staff available to sustain existing configurations of health and care services. Innovative services like 'Living it Up' in Scotland will need to lead the way. A&E services are under serious pressures across the UK and further investment is being made to cope with winter - again the sector needs to demonstrate through personal and home sensors, apps, remote monitoring and schemes such as Warm Neighbourhoods that people can be supported at home. The December newsletter will have some conference updates, but to get us started, we have a report on the recent excellent conference in Scotland as part of a week of telehealth and telecare activities. There is a further update from NHS England on 3millionlives. Finally, with a continuing interest in innovation in health, housing and social care why not get involved in NHS Change Day - an opportunity to make a pledge to improve services.
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 LinkedIn. You can also access a Twitter Stream via the TelecareLIN website.