A new £1m project to improve the care of people with learning disabilities is being led by v-connect, a video communication service.
The project, BOLD-TC (Better Outcomes for People with Learning Disabilities – Transforming Care), will collaborate with care providers and their clients to explore how multi-way video calling, remote video and other services through mobile devices, together with remote monitoring of vital signs can help people with learning disabilities remain in their community, increasing their independence and improving their health and wellbeing.
CQC is launching a week long social media campaign, Your Maternity Care, asking women who have used maternity services in the last year to share their experiences of maternity care.
A report has been published by NHS Clinical Commissioners to showcase effective examples from CCGs who are improving prevention and early diagnosis through bringing together a range of stakeholders in their local areas.
Two £25 vouchers are up for grabs in the library’s ‘Making the Most of Information’ survey.
To take part, just visit http://goo.gl/AdN4ok by Friday 19th February.
The Patient Information Forum (PIF) has published a factsheet called ‘What source when? Creating realiable and accurate information‘, that provides an introduction to the difference sources of evidence that exist, and considers what sort of source you might want to use for different sorts of health content.
An article in BMJ Open has reviewed 99 self-reported measures for assessing wellbeing in adults.
The authors identified that there are multiple measures of well-being, but it is not always clear what they are measuring, or which instruments may best meet the objectives of different projects.
The Realising the Value consortium have published a new report At the heart of health: Realising the value of people and communities.
The report brings together evidence on what good person- and community-centred approaches for health and wellbeing look like and their potentially wide-reaching benefits.
The All Party Parliamentary Group for Health (APPGH) have published a blog on their website by Alison Tavare, a Bristol GP, about using videos to provide health information.