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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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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.
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.
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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.
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.
A summary of findings from the UTOPIA study, which looked at local authority use of telecare and assistive technology for older people in adult social care. The study which was carried out between April 2016 and May 2017, involved an online survey of English local authorities and selective interviews with telecare managers and stakeholder. Key findings cover the strategic aims of assistive technology and telecare; how it is being deployed (assessment process, installation, responding to alarms, and reviews); and evidence collected to monitor whether strategic aims are being met. Please contact the library to receive a copy of this article - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai
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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.
This report consider the cost-effectiveness of preventative home interventions for people with long-term sickness or disability by reducing the need for NHS treatment and subsequent need for reactive home adaptations.
The report aims to highlight the emerging role of technology in transforming social care services and enabling care and health integration - including case studies of the introduction and use of technology to deliver improved outcomes for social care service users and, in the context of integration, patients. It also showcases the current and future roles of technology in facilitating demand management, delivering cost efficiencies, and mitigating against systemic risks.
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Today the Voluntary Organisations Disability Group (VODG) launches a new report on how social care providers are embracing technology to improve services. The group argues that commissioning practices must keep pace with technological change to support quality improvement.
The NEWS (National Early Warning Score) system includes a medical assessment that is used by GPs, ambulance crews and hospitals to flag up potentially serious health problems.
The newly developed system aims to prevent people’s conditions from deteriorating, ensuring that early signs are being noticed by their care team.
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