Telecare Aware has moved – see below

The heavily trailed White Paper ‘Our health, our care, our say: a new direction for community services’ has been published.

The Self Assessment Rapid Access (SARA) programme allows users or carers to work through an assessment for equipment and provides a tailored report and has now been made available to the public.

The intention is to open up new sectors in the telecare market.

Freebridge refused to take over the service from the council, saying it wasn’t part of the transfer deal

The company has a broad market presence in United States and Canada, marketing its services through a network of more than 2,500 hospitals and other healthcare providers and serves a subscriber base of nearly 470,000.

DH press release on the Health and Social Care Information Centre monitoring figures for the performance indicator on older people receiving intensive care at home

Care ‘threatened’ by council cuts.

Two Japanese telecare-related stories.

Wildly provocative title leads to an interesting discussion

Three stories. Read them as one.