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March 2006
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Briefing Paper 4:
What is telecare?
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What is ‘telecare’? Or, more precisely, what
does the Telecare Alliance mean by ‘telecare’? After all, the Alliance revolves
around it. However, defining telecare in the current UK social
and health service context is a rich and troublesome source of debate, which is
why we are dedicating a whole briefing paper to it.
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Click here to open the pdf file (3 pages)
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February 2006
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Briefing Paper 3:
White Paper: Telecare; telehealth; the bad news; the good news
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You are not alone if you have been
struggling to understand the implications of the government White Paper Our
health; our care, our say: a new direction for community services. It does
contain good news for people interested in the telecare and telehealth agenda —
if you can find it.
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Click here to open the pdf file (7 pages)
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December 2005
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Hawker Publications Reviews
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Review of two important publications of interest to people involved in both dementia care and telecare implementation: The conference report Assistive Technology in Dementia Care and the evaluative report of the project Safe at Home.
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Click here to open the pdf file
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December 2005
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Briefing Paper 2:
National Telecare Readiness Survey Results (October 2005)
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In October 2005 all 150 English councils with social care responsibilities were asked to complete a survey to indicate their state of planning for the Preventative Technology Grant due in April 2006. 37% replied, revealing that progress has been slow to take off.
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Click here to open the pdf file
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August 2005
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Briefing Paper 1: What the Preventative
Technology Grant means for social services and partner organisations
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We explain why, in the era of the
Department of Health’s ‘hands off’ approach to policy implementation, it made
such a big deal of its launch; why services need to pay attention to the issues
raised by the Department’s Telecare Policy Collaborative, and why attempts to
add telecare into current systems without a full understanding of the issues
will just add costs without realising the significant benefits that telecare
can bring. The briefing paper also contains calculations of indicative grant
amounts, by authority.
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The briefing
paper is four pages of text and four of the indicative Preventative
Technology Grant allocations table. Click here to open the pdf file
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