Three million patients have begun to access new apps, safety devices, online networks, and a host of other new technologies and services during the first nine months of a pioneering NHS programme. 68 NHS organisations are using one or more of 17 new innovations which aim to improve care by, for example, reducing clinical incidents, […]
Look after yourself and others and avoid if possible the post-Christmas hospital rush, says Keogh England’s top doctor, Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, has today (Monday) called on people to look out for frail and elderly relatives, friends and neighbours over Christmas and New Year. The NHS England Medical Director has spoken of the need to […]
NHS England’s National Clinical lead for Primary Care explains how we can all help ourselves to Stay Well This Winter: The Indian summer and mild November days have given way to wild and windy storms. With the rain and biting cold gales comes a wish to curl up with the winter viruses and counting off […]
Tim Kelsey will today drive home important messages for the public as part of the high profile Stay Well This Winter campaign. NHS England’s National Director for Patients and Information will highlight the need for people to help the NHS this winter by taking care of themselves and others when he addresses the Annual Self […]
NHS staff, patients and carers are being urged to support and help raise awareness of Self Care Week next month. The theme for the week, running from 16 to 22 November, is ‘Self Care for Life’ and aims to help people understand what they can do to better look after their own health and that […]
The NHS will urge health and social care leaders to end the unnecessary reliance on paper in the treatment of patients and make services safer, more effective and efficient. The NHS will announce new measures to help the patients, the public and clinicians make more use of technology to improve the health of the nation. […]
Read examples of how telehealth, telecare, and telemedicine projects have been implemented in the UK and internationally, what challenges they faced and their key learnings. Spire Health Montefiore Hospital, Brighton – Wearable vital signs monitor for patients in general wards and Accident & Emergency waiting Stoke-on-Trent CCG – Florence text messaging to monitor a range […]
Access resources to support planning and commissioning of TECS programmes. TECS evidence database Find recent research and evidence on TECS and the impact it had on patient outcomes and cost-effectiveness. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) evidence Diabetes evidence Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) and Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) evidence Telecoaching evidence Telemedicine evidence Telehealth evidence
A group of people with complex, long term health conditions recently gained the ‘right to have’ their care delivered through a Personal Health Budget. Adults who are eligible for NHS Continuing Healthcare and children in receipt of continuing care can now ask their CCG for more control over how they manage their chronic health needs […]
As the NHS Commissioning Assembly annual event gets underway in London, Dr Katie Coleman, a GP and Vice-Chair of Islington CCG, explains how person centred care can become a reality: Sir William Osler, the renowned Canadian physician, led nineteenth century thinking on what became known as the ‘patient as a person’ movement. This was a […]