Do you need help with:

1) Keeping up-to-date with telecare news?

Go to the Telecare Aware site for frequently updated news including telehealth, opinions, videos and more. Use the opt-in form to be alerted when the site is updated.

2) Your telecare strategy, project, or training?

I am in frequent touch with a number of top-notch individuals consultancies in the telecare and telehealth fields, both in the UK and in other countries. If you are thinking of purchasing help, ask me and I may be able to recommend someone approriate, or know someone who can do so.

3) Constructing a credible business case?

Given the financial pressures on services, having a credible, robust and realistic business case will be essential for social services that want to mainstream telecare.

‘Robust and realistic’ means that it takes into account fixed and variable costs, change management costs, etc. It will be difficult to make a convincing case that relies on the face-value assumptions that ‘telecare is cheap and residential care is expensive’ and that there are substantial quality-of-life benefits to clients.

However, even a short time spent trying to set up a cost/benefit spreadsheet model from scratch will convince even the enthusiast that this is an extremely difficult and time-consuming task. The reason is that the year-on-year effects of having telecare in care plans are dynamic and cumulative. I can put you in touch with the experts in this field.