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The Health Technology Community Conversation will take place on the afternoon of Tuesday, July 18. It will follow the Annual General Meeting of the area’s two NHS health commissioners – NHS Stoke-on-Trent and NHS North Staffordshire Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs).
The community conversation will act as a showcase for some of the most easily available tech (some of it developed locally) and give people the chance to try it out for themselves - with some expert guidance.
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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.
More roadshows are to be held in Telford and Wrekin highlighting how technology and devices can help people to continue to live independently in their own home.
This type of support, known as Assistive Technology, is becoming increasingly important as Telford & Wrekin Council’s social care budget comes under increasing pressure due to cuts in Government grant.
People approaching older age are often unaware how assistive technology could help them remain independent and in their own home later in life.
The roadshows follow a successful initiative late last year called AT Home which saw hundreds of people seek more information from the Council.
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Pregnant women with gestational diabetes in Shropshire will soon be able to manage their condition remotely by using a smartphone app.
The app will be used by The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) from December and means that women will be able to better manage their condition, and potentially reduce the number of visits they need to make to hospital.
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Under the programme, selected GP practices and nursing and residential homes in the region will use portable computer tablets loaded with audio visual programmes, the CCGs’ Florence telehealth system, health management apps and video consultation technology, linking them with an extended network of primary care, mental health and palliative care staff, community pharmacists and geriatricians.
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News from our partners Healthwatch Shropshire
Healthwatch Shropshire would like to know about people’s experiences of NHS and social care provision of equipment and aids. Many people rely on such aids and equipment, often referred to as assistive technology, to help their recovery from illness or surgery. Others need equipment to help them live more independently because of long-term disabilities or health conditions.
Florence (or Flo) is an interactive telehealth platform which sends text messages to patients offering reminders and advice, or asking the patient to submit readings such as blood pressure.Manage Your Health (MYH) is a collection of apps offering a range of formats to demonstrate key pieces of advice and information for managing a number of long-term conditions. Videos of correct inhaler techniques have been of particular benefit in improving patients’ self-management of their respiratory conditions.
Pioneering technology developed in Stoke-on-Trent and North Staffordshire has been selected as one of the Top 70 health innovations by a website dedicated to NHS top tech.
Florence (or Flo) is a telehealth platform to allow patients and their doctors to manage long-term health conditions such as asthma and diabetes effectively. Flo sends text messages to patients offering reminders and advice. Messages can also ask the patient to submit their readings, such as those relating to their blood pressure. All the patient needs is a normal mobile phone.