Tucked away on the sidebar of the Scottish Joint Improvement Team’s telecare webpage, is a link to a ‘benchmarking report’ published in February 2008. You can download the report here.

Thanks to Ali Rogan, Tunstall’s Marketing Director, for the heads-up on this one. She points out that the report highlights:

• £2.9 million estimated verifiable savings as a result of the telecare development programme, taken from the quarterly returns from 13 partnerships in Scotland
• savings for first 6 months of 2007/08
• 1800 hospital days saved, includes early supported discharge
• 66 avoided delayed discharges and 140 hospital admissions avoided
• 1,300 additional people maintained in their own homes with support
• 1,250 nights of sleepover care saved
• 107,000 home check visits saved
• 6,900 care home bed days saved
• telecare in Scotland will save £43m by 2010