Telecare eNewsletter September 2013

Welcome to the September 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 700 news and events links over the last month, we hope that you find this newsletter useful.

Following the summer break, the NHS prepares for the winter period with the prospect of serious pressures on hospital services. To address the pressures, the Government and Department of Health in England are looking at funds to support A&E and looking closely at primary care, out of hours and GP services particularly for people with long term conditions including personalised care plans and named lead clinicians. Plans continue to move towards online records and more integrated services. Technology is being used to develop digital health and care services and engage patients and users through new platforms via NHS England. There is a continuing mixed picture for telehealth in the UK as some services invest (eg Liverpool) whilst others are reviewing arrangements (East Riding). 3millionlives is now led through NHS England and the development of a new stakeholder forum from October 2013. Autumn is conference season and there are plenty of choices in the coming weeks in Edinburgh, Birmingham and London (see event lists). There is also a telehealth and telecare week in Scotland (from 28 October 2013). For practitioners, recent events in Salford and Crawley show the continuing interest in finding useful products and services to support users, carers and their families particularly as services become more personalised.

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. You can also access a Twitter Stream via the TelecareLIN website.

Additional links supplement (over 700 this month) - doc, pdf formats