Video consultations with GPs have been given the go-ahead in Wales in response to the coronavirus outbreak, the Welsh Government has announced. The technology was being trialled by the Aneurin
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More than £3 million is being spent on a “rapid scaling up” of NHS facilities for video consultations in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, Health Secretary Jeane Freeman has
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England’s top doctor has called on the NHS to use more technology and innovation to reduce the thousands of unnecessary outpatient appointments carried out every day. NHS England medical director
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The Scottish Government has launched a new Digital Health and Social Care Strategy that sets out how technology can support person-centred care and help to not only sustain but improve
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Researchers based at the Social Care Workforce Research Unit at King’s College London are conducting a programme of research funded by NIHR/SSCR into Local Authority telecare use for older people.
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The SSSC, in partnership with NHS Education for Scotland (NES), NHS24, and the Scottish Centre for Telehealth and Telecare (SCTT), recently commissioned research into the extent the health and social care workforce
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A £10 million fund to increase the number of people receiving diagnosis and treatment at home will support the roll-out of new technology across Scotland’s NHS. In a speech at
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NHS Education for Scotland is working with the Scottish Social Services Council and the Scottish Centre for Telehealth and Telecare to develop a technology-enabled learning action plan. This plan will
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Skills for Care is backing a new strategy that aims to help adult social care employers support 1.5 million workers to use Electronic Assistive Technology (eAT) in their work. For
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A database of telehealth and telecare services and projects in Scotland has been developed and made available as a public resource. For any given project included in the database it
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