15 July 2011

Hi.

WOW. Just back from yesterday’s London regional forum meeting and we had our largest number of attendees ever – just under 80.

This was a fantastic number and a clear sign of the success of the regional events in reaching members and interested parties at a local level. Throughout this year’s programme of regional meetings I have been really encouraged by the levels of attendance, and to end in London with the highest attendance ever was great.

The presentations yesterday were all very good and a really wide-ranging number of topics. Starting with Sara Murray from Buddi speaking on some new developments that the company is bringing to the market and that could really start to bring benefits for patients as well as those wanting to monitor their own health in a more informed and easy manner. A presentation by Elmbridge Borough Council and Tynetec encouraged us to think outside the box and that sometimes the answer was a simple solution rather than an array of technology. Other presentations covered the opportunities that smart metering can bring for telecare and telehealth, a European angle on telehealth developments, how monitoring centres can provide clinical excellence, and the Government procurement framework for telecare and telehealth. So a really varied and impressive range of topics from some TSA members, plus a couple of briefing sessions on work TSA is currently undertaking.

With the regional events now concluded for this year and all our efforts now being focused on Conference in November we will still need to start planning shortly for the regional events in 2012. But what we need is your views, suggestions, topics, etc. We may well change the content and style for next year – just to mix it up a bit and provide some variety. So let the TSA office know what you think via [email protected]

Regards

Trevor Single