Three items this week illustrate the changing health and social care context that is beginning to affect the market for telecare and telehealth services.
- Council plans to axe in-house care provision (Community CAre. Note the comment about direct payments and personal budgets)
- PCT deficits will leave GP commissioning ‘doomed to fail’ (Healthcare Republic)
- Commissioning a bridge for GPs’ information gap (Smart Healthcare ephasises lack of planning for GPs’ information needs)
Update…and a couple more:
- Council staff ‘waste two-thirds of working day’ (Hmm…)
- Councils reveal most bizarre call centre queries (General, not telecare call centres referred to here, by the way. Using humour, these councils are trying to counteract their generally negative publicity and to show how useful they are.)