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The promotion of telehealth and telecare was highlighted at the Wessex wide conference held in June 2011.
The conference described work that is being done locally to improve outcomes for patients and ways to reduce costs across the health system through prevention of acute hospital admissions. Over 70 people from across the region attended this conference and it gave the Wessex HIEC a mandate for work going forwards.
Speakers included: Ros Tolcher, CEO of the Solent NHS Trust, who described the work being done in her trust and the impact this is having on working practices for her staff and on the issues that have been addressed to embed this way of working.
Mike Clark, an independent consultant with the Kings Fund shared his vision of telecare and telehealth developments in England and the evolving landscape of commissioning through clinical commissioning groups.
Mark Fisher, an independent consultant on telecare working on the south coast, described the work he has done in supporting the implementation of telecare in local authorities, and the learning that health trusts can gain from this.
This video introduces various aspects of the development of Telecare in Portsmouth. It outlines Portsmouth City Council’s on-going strategy to raise public awareness, as well as the training and mentoring process amongst staff.
The video describes the implementation of the responder service, offered to people who were previously ineligible due to insufficient personal responders, and the contribution this service has made to reducing 999 calls.
Extending options for personal support and independence has brought quality of life benefits for users and carers, but also cost benefits for health and social care services locally.
Speaking at Wessex HIEC’s telehealth impact workshop in July 2012, Solent NHS Trust’s Debbie Clarke discussed what’s needed for successful delivery of telehealth services from the perspective of a healthcare provider.
This podcast is 4 minutes and 8 seconds long.
Speaking at Wessex HIEC’s telehealth impact workshop in July 2012, Sue Faulds from the University of Southampton discusses telehealth from an academic perspective.
What will it be like to be a nurse in the future? Could nurses be replaced by robots?
This podcast is 8 minutes and 29 seconds long.
Speaking at Wessex HIEC’s telehealth impact workshop in July 2012, Peter Levene of Docobo described the application of technology into patient management.
Peter believes that it must address the problems that health services have, rather than be slotted into existing pathways.
This podcast is 4 minutes and 51 seconds long.
Speaking at Wessex HIEC’s telehealth impact workshop in July 2012, Solent NHS Trust’s Atul Kumar-Beurg focused on what staff will need to understand for the successful delivery of telehealth services.
Legal, ethical, workflow, and process issues are all important elements of a university course to give staff a head start in the workplace when providing telehealth to patients.
This podcast is 4 minutes and 51 seconds long.