USEFUL LINKS - SUPPLEMENT
September2013
Welcome to an additional supplement from the Technology Strategy Board (TSB) Knowledge Transfer Network and the Telecare Learning and Improvement Network.
Scroll through this supplement to the September2013 Newsletter for a comprehensive summary of news stories relating to Telecare and Telehealth from the UK and around the world. They cover the following topic areas:
a) Policy, funding and trends
To view information on policy, funding and trends that may be of interest, click on the links below:
"Telehealth has made me feel more confident." (Bristol)
‘Why should I pay?’ – Sunderland pensioner blasts council bosses over charge for Telecare emergency line
£1 billion to help A&Es and NHS staff access medical records in hi-tech hospital revolution
£12,000 hologram employed as council receptionist
£2.7m telehealth deployment goes'live'
£500m bailout to NHS as A&E on brink of collapse
£500m being made available by Jeremy Hunt to shore up A&E over the next two winters
A Cap that Fits: The ‘capped cost plus’ model
Airedale & Involve shares telemedicine success at globalevent
Airedale NHS Trust & Involve Telemedicine Service set to Save NHS Trust £Millions
Alarm ‘failure’ alert as woman is killed in fire
Alex Salmond to open 'Europe's first TelemedicineConference'
Alzheimer’s Society report shows people with dementia rarely leave home
Alzheimer's may be linked to better hygiene, sayscientists
An intro to NHS Leeds South and EastCCG
An introduction to buildingcommunities
Are NHS over-40s health checks a waste of time? Critics say they're useless but ministers insist 650 lives a year could besaved
Are we reaching a tipping point for mHealth apps
BBC Horizon - Monitor Me (2013)Documentary
Better kidney care could save up to 42,000 lives a year, saysNice
Blood pressure lowered by nerve surgery
Brent's hologram receptionist is council innovation at itsbest
Bring in flexible hours for carers, says healthsecretary
Bristol Telehealth
California-Cambridge alliance in digital healthcare
Call for Papers: Quantified Self and Self-Tracking » Centre for Health, Technologies and SocialPractice
Can online games help battlecancer?
Care funding reforms: a chance to get it right in the next parliament
Care homes fight ageism with football, rock'n'roll andsex
Care workers being paid below minimum wage
CCGs should help develop general practice, says NHS England official
Channel Shift in NHS - a mountain to climb but the only way isup
Children andexercise
Cleaning and gardening voucher plan to help carers keep jobs
Co-ordinated care in the Oxleas Advanced Dementia Service
Council pulls plug on alarm services switch after tenants raiseconcerns
Councils need to build on their successes in integrated healthcare
Darren Gormley: My tablet and me: Top 10 activities for people living withdementia.
Delays to PM's £100m nursing programme 'politicallydifficult'
Dementia campaign could lead to over-diagnosis, say experts
Dementia champions create friendly communities and save publicmoney
Dementia searches up for moorgroup
Department of Health report reveals NHS value for moneyfailures
Deputy Chief Medical Officers appointed
DH annual accounts for2012/13
DH to hand over £2.2bn underspend toTreasury
Direct payments, personal budgets and individual budgets
Discussion roundup: what is good leadership in theNHS?
DocReady
Doctors should prescribe exercise to over 55s, researchers claim
Doctors sound alarm on child fitness andhealth
Dogs used as 'early warning system' for diabetics
Don’t call us ‘old’ sayover-65s
Don't cut grassroots GPs out of talks on general practice reform, Nagpaul warns Hunt
Dr Michelle Drage: ‘Think what GPs could do with 20% of the NHSbudget’
E-Health Insider :: £2m to get patientsonline
E-Health Insider :: 3millionlives industry groupaxed
E-Health Insider :: 50,000 clinicians to learn tocode
E-Health Insider :: Anotherview - predictive risk modelling
E-Health Insider :: Brighton does bedmanagement
E-Health Insider :: Child protection database live in2015
E-Health Insider :: CSU contract deadlineextended
E-Health Insider :: DH reveals final NPfITbenefits
E-Health Insider :: EHI interview: AlexAbbott
E-Health Insider :: First sign-off for patient dataflow
E-Health Insider :: Hunt announces £1 billion for healthIT
E-Health Insider :: Kiosk trial for Friends & FamilyTest
E-Health Insider :: NI does diabetes care withDiamond.net
E-Health Insider :: NPfIT to cost £10billion
E-Health Insider :: Power to thepeople
E-Health Insider :: Quarter of GPs offer PatientAccess
E-Health Insider :: Surrey takestelehealth
E-Health Insider :: Tech Fund second roundannounced
Either we forgo the fatty diet, or our NHS will have a heart attack
Either we forgo the fatty diet, or our NHS will have a heart attack
Elderly care crisis claims a million family homes
England faces crisis in care for older people by2032
Carers UK - Equipment and technologies to help you care
Esther Rantzen launches 'Silver Line' helpline for lonely elderly
EXCLUSIVE: CCGs could take overCSUs
Exclusive: Clare Gerada wins role transforming London primarycare
Exercise on referral 'more effective in olderpatients'
Expert round-up: what skills are needed from leaders of thefuture?
Exploring the system-wide costs of falls in older people in Torbay
Fears grow over renewed crisis in A&E thiswinter
Field named chief inspector ofGPs
Fifth of GP practices inspected by the CQC found to be'non-compliant'
Figures show regional cancerdivide
First European telemedicine conference 2013 fast approaching
First responder scheme for Stafford's elderlyextended
First validated GP risk tool to predict emergencyadmissions
Five consultants in A&E overnight in whole of England
Four ways that 'smart' councils are using technology to regenerateareas
Frail elderly 'face carersshortage'
Free health checks could actually be counterproductive
Gamification in the US; any great examples closer to home? - Telehealth and TelecareAware
Gerada: Single-handed GPs will notsurvive
GGI Commissioning Simulator
Give elderly proper care, GPs told
Glasgow doctor develops GP app
Good hygiene may be to blame for soaring Alzheimer's
Government funds social care leaders to prepare sector for Care Bill reforms
Government procurement strategy is blocking NHS value for money
GP leaders hit back over claims patients need better choice of GPpractice
GP2U Telehealth - Online Doctors via Video Conference
GPs continue to do battle with government overtelehealth
GPs letting receptionists decide who gets seen
GPs likely to become named clinician for vulnerable older people
GPs lumbered with ‘300-page’ tender documents to bid for public healthwork
GPs plan trials of seven-day opening to combat A&Ecrisis
GPs predict longer waitingtimes
GPs warn of poorer care for older patients with service at 'breakingpoint'
Helping to deliver cutting edge telecare services - Royal Borough of Greenwich
Home carers being paid illegal poverty wages - study
Hospital takeover plansapproved
Housing groups have a mental block when it comes todementia
How deficits in social work practice with carers can be tackled
How football is helping unlock dementia patients' memories
How local government's relationship with the NHS ischanging
How to mobilise localcommunities
Hundreds due at event to show how technology can keep vulnerable residents safe - Symphony HousingGroup
Hundreds of thousands of elderly people were abused last year
Hunt announces new push to create database of NHS patients' records
Hunt seizes back control as reform legacy creates a franticsummer
Hunt: employers burying heads in sands over care 'time bomb'
In Sickness and in Health - Assessing the transition to a more localist health system – the first step towards marriage between the NHS and local government?
Interview - Dr. Saif Abed shares insights on Digital Health, mHealth, Telehealth, andTwitter
Is mobile healthcare the future?(infographic)
Is telecare the 'silver lining' for adult social care service delivery?
It's right to worry about security, but sometimes data trawls can beuseful
Jeremy Hunt calls for GPs to improve care for elderly
Jeremy Hunt orders same-day GP appointments to ease A&E burden
Jeremy Hunt plans sale of confidential patient medical records to private firms
Jeremy Hunt told to stop claiming NHS is failing
Jeremy Hunt warns it will be 'tough' for hospitals to meet A&E timetargets
Jeremy Hunt: A single reform that can sustain our NHS
Key telehealth group axed
Kidney checks 'would savelives'
KPMG report urges radical new look at long-termcare
Live discussion: what kind of leaders will councils need in thefuture?
Lives of elderly at mercy of postcode lottery in 'ageist' NHS, figures suggest
Living it Up Moray - Speck monitorsexplained
Local government leader of the future winnerannounced
Local NHS Trust using technology to connect with patients
Loss of 5,000 nurses prompts safetywarning
Lung diseases cause one in 10deaths
Lung diseases kill one in 10 Europeans, with greatest risk inBritain
Managers claim telemedicine 'helped cut admissions by45%'
Manorlands hospice telemedicine service will be offered to morepatients
Measure creatinine in all ill older patients, recommendsNICE
Memory 'more consistent withage'
Mental health care overlooked by NHS review of emergencyservices
Millions of patients to benefit from easier access to medication and fewer trips to hospitals - Press releases -GOV.UK
More money isn't enough – only change across the whole NHS will tackle A&E pressures, says MikeFarrar
MoreIndependent
Nearly one in 10 children gets first mobile phone by age five, saysstudy
NESTA tender document
New service to replace NHS Choices website from March 2014 - Health & Social Care InformationCentre
New website exposes postcode lottery of cancer care
News Release - Trafford Council's free Telecare Pledge promotional event comes toPartington
NHS England » 7-day services are on everyone’slips
NHS England » A revolution in patient power: why NHS England is launching Tripadvisor for patients – TimKelsey
NHS England » Boardmeetings
NHS England » Bulletin for CCGs: Issue 41, 6 September,2013
NHS England » Improving general practice – a call toaction
NHS England » Millions of patients to benefit from easier access to medication and fewer trips tohospitals
NHS England » NHS England welcomes additional £250 million to the Safer Hospitals, Safer Wards TechnologyFund
NHS England launches future of general practice consultation
NHS England supports winter plans for urgent and emergency services
NHS England to publish quarterly lists of 'neverevents'
NHS England unveils new interactive patient communication service
NHS failings exposed in new report
NHS hospital complaints rise by1.9%
NHS hospitals to start calculating 'needless deaths'
NHS leader criticises 'stormy'service
NHS managers worry hospitals will fail under pressure this winter
NHS MOT health checks are 'useless', experts claim
NHS needs to retain focus on quality of care and the patient experience, according to BMJ study
NHS problems could wreck coalition election chances, says ex-No 10 adviser
NHS shake-up 'lacks detail'claim
NHS stop smoking services help 146,000 quitlong-term
NHS stop-smoking service 'asuccess'
NHS to receive £240m Government funding boost as health secretary pledges to revolutionise the way it usestechnology
NHS Winter Planning - Ministerial Statement
NHS: Up to 20 trusts plan to set up lucrative health services in India
NICE Clinical Knowledge Summaries(CKS)
No benefit for disabled people from integrated personal budget pilots
Nurses set to face three-yearchecks
Older people should be supported to carry on living athome
Older, healthier and working: Britons say no toretirement
On the money? NHS England gets serious about allocations The King'sFund
One in 10 pensioners working or looking forwork
One in three A&E patients don't need to be there, says top NHSdoctor
One-in-four Britons walk less than five miles a month
Over-40s health MOTs inquestion
Oxford biomedical spin out recruits healthcare chairman to make contactless vital signs monitoring a commercial reality
Oxleas Advanced Dementia Service The King'sFund
Patient privacy will not be lost in a digitalNHS
Paying Care Home Fees - Claiming NHS ContinuingHealthcare
'Peer brokers' help other care-users manage their ownservices
Personal Health Budgets – NHS Commissioning
Personal Health Budgets - Potential & Challenges
Personal health budgets to drive decommissioning of NHS services, saysthink-tank
Person-centred care and the CQC: are we heading for a culture clash? - HealthFoundation
Preventative care scheme helps vulnerable adults stayindependent
Primary care is being 'crushed' despite huge NHS surplus
Private health groups may have to sell hospitals, competition watchdogrules
Private patients 'paying toomuch'
Professor Steve Field announced as first chief inspector of generalpractice
Professor Steve Field appointed chief inspector of generalpractice
Professor Steve Field to introduce practice ratings system after being appointed chief inspector of GPs
Public Health England admits winter death spike was due to flu and coldweather
Public Leaders Network TheGuardian
Public sector executives: now is not the time forheroes
RCGP chair questions future of independent contractor status
RCGP sparks row over GP out-of-hours care for complexpatients
RCGP warns NHS health checks are 'waste of money'
RCGP will support Labour’s plans for careintegration
Record numbers of care homes warned over illegally poor standards -Telegraph
Research and development - AT Dementiahome
Revealed: system failure in fire death
Risk score predicts 10-year risk of dementia in elderly withdiabetes
Roll out of 800 Samsung 3G Galaxy Tablets to all Community Healthcare workers delivers £500,000 efficiency savings to Northern Devon Healthcare NHSTrust
Rolling out telemedicine and assisted living solutions in the Region of Southern Denmark
Samsung's Galaxy Gear watch to deal first blow in war for thewrist
Second NHS hospital may be franchised before election
Services at risk as Scotland faces doctorshortage
Signs of a home monitoring bubble? Telehealth and TelecareAware
Six ideas to get more women involved in the techsector
Smartwatches: what are Apple, Samsung, Google and Microsoft up to?
So many apps, so little time Telehealth and TelecareAware
Staffordshire County Council - A new disability service for people of allages
Stop blaming GPs, Mr Hunt - it is ministers who must act to improve elderly care
Stroke patients with aphasia share problems seeing their GP
Support for working carers needed to help businesses and boost the economy - Press releases -GOV.UK
Support working carers to help business and boost the economy
Supporting Working Carers CarersUK
'Take up the challenge of GP commissioning. The patients needyou'
Telehealth DES PulseLearning
Telehealth deal agreed by SurreyCCGs
Telehealth DES reporting requirements could lose practices money, GPCwarns
Telehealth Forum launches annual temperature check
Telehealth is becoming fully embedded across all SurreyCCGs
Telehealthcare Times - issue42
Telescope Code of Practice
Tens of thousands of cancer patients visiting GP multiple times before referral
The city of2050
The friends and family test: is there a better way to find out patients'views?
The heart disease 'time bomb'
The internet can save the elderly from loneliness
The NHS has a vital role to play in end-of-life careservices
'The tectonic plates of healthcare aremoving'
Thousands die with treatable kidney problems
Thousands of 'well-dressed' women dying from strokes as doctors think they look healthy -Telegraph
Treat heart attacks and strokes at home, says senior doctor
Triple heart attack pensioner's warning from Glasgow City Council: Pay up or we'll cut off your panicalarm
UK to host G8 dementia summit
United Kingdom United in Support for mHealth
Universal Credit IT programme not fit for purpose, sources warn
Use 'Kitemarks' to rate hospital care for elderly, demand doctors
Vast majority of UK population unaware of telehealth
VODG - Blog - Fit and proper? Why the plans on accountability in social care need morework
Warwick policy lab to use Birmingham as 'testing ground' forideas
We’re finally hearing how vital it is to listen to patients, says Dr Katherine Rake
What are the real costs of falls and fractures? The King'sFund
What are you helping tobuild?
When deciding which telemonitoring Code of Practice to adopt, do you use a TeleSCoPE? Telehealth and TelecareAware
Who do you trust more: doctors orbankers?
Why doesn't the NHS know how many patients havechemotherapy?
Yes, those free health apps are sharing your data with othercompanies
Zero-hours contracts are inappropriate in the field of social carework
Zero-hours contracts: 'you have to be careful not to upset the wrongperson'
b) Business intelligence and product development
To view information on business intelligence and product development that may be of interest, click on the link below:
‘Switched-on’ generation switched off to life-changing care technology
10 smartwatches that may take on fitness trackers
10 Steps To Prepare Your Mobile Health App for Monetization
18 Million People Are Using Nike+ To Track TheirFitness
3 ways Google is making it easier to get health information
3 Ways To Foster Healthcare Innovation
5 ways Google Glass can be used in ahospital
7 fitness apps with 16 million or more downloads
A BetterPlan - website
A cost-effective solution to monitoring and diagnosing sleepingdisorders
A critical discussion of the benefits of e-health in population-level dental research
A different kind of accelerator – HubLaunchpad
A dozen palliative care centres join the province’s telemedic network (withvideo)
A healthcare innovator’s guide to must-know tech terms for the next decade of medicine
A New Spoon for Shaky Eaters
A Surgical Center for OlderPatients
A wristband that detects seizures
A&E cash linked to staff flu jabs
A&E departments understaffed by nearly 10%, BBC survey suggests
AAMI/FDA Summit on Healthcare Technology inNonclinical Settings
AdhereTech website
Aetna’s iTriage integrates employer-specific network data into mobile physician finder
Africa Leads Cellular Health TechnologyRevolution