The Department of Health’s call last week for demonstrator sites to bring the benefits of whole systems to people with long term conditions should receive a warm welcome from the telecare community.
Read the DH webpage but don’t miss Annex A Likely key elements that will inform an application which includes the need to identify partner organisations and information sharing issues, but above all, requires applicants to provide a ‘description of the outcomes and benefits (including cost savings) that you envisage being delivered through the use of telecare/telehealth in an integrated health and social care service’. Read the importance of a credible business case on the old Telecare Alliance site.