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A new report outlines how health and social care providers must collaborate with users of services when designing apps, websites and other digital technologies.
KPMG’s financial analysis found that, where potential changes in care packages could be identified and where financial information could be supplied by care providers, the over-provision of care exceeded the under-provision of care. When extrapolated to a 12 month period there was a potential over-provision of care (potential savings) of £1.577 million and an under-provision of care of £692,000.
The KPMG analysis found that, even taking into account the need to remedy the under-provision, Just Checking would pay for itself within 9 weeks.
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Come and visit our first pop-up library at Severn Fields, Shrewsbury 19th July 11.00am-3.00pm. Join the library, borrow and return books, get help finding information and evidence, set up an Athens account, find out what the library can do for you and your team.
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CCGs in northern Staffordshire are rolling out an innovative service linking GPs with their elderly patients and care home staff through online video technology. Stoke-on-Trent and North Staffordshire CCGs have been given £136,000 each by NHS England to buy equipment for their ‘Making Technology Enabled Care Services (TECS) a Reality in Elderly Care’ scheme.
We've added 10 new Be Aware updates following your suggestions:
Musculoskeletal ; Osteoporosis ; Nutrition and obesity ; Falls ; HR ; Research Methods ; Information Governance ; Bladder, bowel and pelvic healthcare ; Rheumatology ; Medicines and healthcare products regulatory agency (circulated email)
More than £1 million is up for grabs for digital social care projects thanks to funding from NHS Digital.
The Social Care Digital Innovation Programme (SCDIP) aims to support local authorities using digital technology to design and implement social care.
Ten authorities will receive up to £30,000 to design a digital solution to address specific issues within their service.
Shortlisted projects include Adult Safeguarding Enquiry cards, Integrated Community Services Team, Social Prescribing, Broseley Project for work using consumer smart technology to support health and social care needs of vulnerable people, night time carer support.
This POSTnote introduces robotic technology and the main ways it has been developed for use in social care. It reviews evidence on the impact of robotics on the costs and quality of social care and its workforce, and explores the main ethical, social and regulatory challenges to its use in social care.
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.
Here, in one of the most rural parts of the National Health Service, our clinicians are not just blessed with an excellent bedside manner. Increasingly, they are also becoming skilled in having a “webside manner” – as we harness the full potential of telemedicine to test out and develop a new model of care for the NHS.