Telehealth: Clash of the COPs claims a casualty (UK)

The differences of approach taken by the TSA to its shortly-to-be-published integrated Telecare and Telehealth Code of Practice (COP) and the approach taken by the pan-European COP TeleScoPe project, into which the TSA code was to contribute, has led to the resignation of Dr Malcolm Fisk from the Board of the Telecare Services Association (TSA).

Malcolm had been an elected member of the Board for nine years and was its Chair for four of them. He is the lead coordinator for the development of the work on TeleScoPe. It appears that he now no longer thinks that the TSA work is compatible with the European effort. Read his resignation statement…