If you haven’t time to read them all, don’t miss the third! £80 million to keep older people together in a home of their own DH press release on a new £80 million grant to build extra care housing that… Read moreSocial care in the UK: three items relevant to telecare
TeleMedCare has launched an advanced alerting system which lets the person talk to the designated monitoring centre or any of ten personal preset telephone numbers, such as a friend or relative, from the actual pendant. Details here or visit website.
Independent one-day telecare training organised by the Disabled Living Foundation and led by Jennifer Beaumont. Its aims are “to increase knowledge and understanding of telecare technology and its application across a range of client groups. It will use case studies… Read moreTelecare Solutions and Assessment of Service Users (UK Training)
Speakers’ PowerPoint presentations form the recent series of CSIP Telecare LIN events can be viewed here. Browsing them may give you an idea of some of the things that have happened as a result of the Preventative Technology Grant.
Bridgepoint, the private equity company that bought Tunstall for £225 million in 2005, yesterday announced that it is selling 84% of it to another equity company, Charterhouse, for £514 million it was announced yesterday. Bridgepoint, which has a reputation for… Read moreBridgepoint sells Tunstall Group to Charterhouse
Tunstall press release highlights its contribution to Cheshire’s success. Having secured £1m Government funding from the Preventative Technology Grant (PTG), Cheshire Social Services has successfully mainstreamed telecare across the county, by January 2008 providing tailored telecare packages to a total… Read moreCheshire County Council Telecare Success?
Dig beneath the press release rhetoric at the beginning of this item and it actually looks quite interesting. While other companies are still installing second generation alarm systems into care homes, Intelligent InSites seem to have skipped a generation or… Read moreFamilies to see the activities and attention their family member is receiving
Not the grant itself, of course, but the funding does. I thought it would be worth putting in a little reminder that the funding element of the PTG continues indefinitely after March 2008 in councils’ baseline funding, which is where,… Read morePreventative Technology Grant funding continues indefinitely
Through its activities, especially the poster campaigns, the London Telecare Group has done much to raise awareness of telecare services in the capital. Hundreds of calls generated by the posters have been fielded by a central fulfilment phone line. Posters… Read moreRenewed vision for telecare in London
Danish RTX Healthcare introduces its RTX3370 Telehealth Monitor to the US market at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society’s HIMSS ’08 conference and exhibition in Orlando, Florida, at which over 24,000 visitors are expected next week. RTX sells its… Read moreRTX Healthcare at HIMSS ’O8
