Telecare Elsewhere

CSIP England

The Care Services Improvement Partnership (CSIP) provides information on Telecare as part of its Telecare LIN, which is the national network supporting local service redesign through the application of Telecare and telehealth to aid the delivery of housing, health, social care and support services for older and vulnerable people. You can find out more, and register for monthly newsletters at CSIP Telecare LIN.

The English Department of Health provides information on its website about Building Telecare in England.

WSD Action Network Report: Sustaining Innovation in Telehealth and Telecare

The following briefing paper was published by the WSD Action Network in June 2010, and looks at how telehealth and telecare innovations are being used in health and social care in England.

Sustaining Innovation [715Kb]

Welsh Assembly Telecare

You can access all information on Telecare within the Welsh Assembly on their website

Telecare Services Association

The Telecare Services Association (TSA) is the representative body for the Telecare industry in the UK. On the TSA website, you will find Information about standards, best practice, the TSA Code of Practice, accredited members, and benefits of joining the TSA www.telecare.org.uk.

ICT and Ageing Report: Study of Users, Markets & Technology - European Commission: Jan 2010

This report is the final output of a study to examine the current status of implementation of ICT to support ageing well across a spectrum of European and other countries. It also identifies factors that facilitate or present barriers to development.

European Study on Users, Markets and Technologies [2Mb]

Telehealth System slashes hospital admissions in COPD patients

You can view the recent article in the Nusing Times net dated 12th September 2009 here

Care Coordination/Home Telehealth

A copy of a case study published in Telemedicine and e-health December 2008 on Care Co-ordination/Home Telehealth: The Systematic Implementation of Health Informatics, Home Telehealth, and Disease Management to Support the Care of Veteran Patients with Chronic Conditions is now available.

Case report [1Mb]

Telehealth in Kent: what's behind its success?

The full report from the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement on Telehealth in Kent: what's behind its success? is available here.

Telehealth in Kent: what's behind its success? [1Mb]

European Centre for Connected Health in Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland is leading the way in developing new technologies to help people with chronic conditions live independently at home. You can find out more about the centre online at www.eu-cch.org

Social Care Institute for Excellence

The SCIE's mission is to identify and spread knowledge of good practice for social care and social work. The organisation just published a paper examining a range of ethical issues in the use of telecare. You can download the briefing and full report below.

Ethical Issues in the Use of Telecare: at a glance [310Kb]
Ethical Issues in the Use of Telecare: full report [260Kb]