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Content ArticleIt is now very common for clinicians to carry out consultations with patients over the telephone. If you have time to prepare for the consulation Steve Turner has some suggestions. The aim being to help all patients / users of health and care services lead on their own care. This is a rolling blog. Steve Turner is a nurse prescriber and clinical educator and Associate Lecturer at Plymouth University.
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Content ArticleLiverpool is leading the way in the use of smartphone technology to deliver and monitor care in people’s homes. The city is the first to introduce a digital system with almost all domiciliary care providers – giving instant information about 9,000 vulnerable residents to their families and professionals. The use of an app allows care providers and families to see when a visit is carried out by a carer, for how long and how the person responded.The effect is better informed families and care managers and improved care. Liverpool is the only authority in Europe to be using the technology across its city, with all but one of its 18 domiciliary care providers using everyLIFE PASSsystem. It was made possible through a grant of one million Euros of European Union funding secured through the EU STOPandGO programme of which the Innovation Agency, the Academic Health Science Network for the North West Coast was a key partner.
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Content ArticleA digital tablet intervention to record and communicate data on the health of residents was used in care homes in Sunderland. Between April 2017 and March 2018, a small-scale evaluation compared data between eight of the care homes routinely using the intervention with eight similar care homes who weren’t. The evaluation found that the eight care homes using the intervention made an estimated saving of around £756,144 in A&E attendances and ambulance services during this period.
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Telecare and telehealth - Age UK
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Age UK explain what Telecare is and how it could help you live independently and stay in control of your health and wellbeing.- Posted
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