CSIP Telecare Event Taunton

Building Telecare in England (Department of Health, July 2005) set the scene for extending telecare, telehealth and advanced remote monitoring to a wider population to support individuals, carers and people with long term conditions such as COPD and diabetes.

£80m of additional funding from the Preventative Technology Grant has now been made available to 150 social care authorities with their partners to support an additional 160,000 users across the period of the grant.

Organisations have had financial flexibility to improve care pathways and phase in mainstreaming arrangements including carry over into 2008/9 of any unused Year 2 funding.

This important event will enable organisations involved in telecare and telehealth implementation to showcase their own achievements since 2005.

Speakers from organisations implementing telecare and telehealth will be providing information about successes and lessons learned. This will enable service commissioners and providers to better understand the care pathways where telecare and telehealth are likely to make the most impact for users, patients and carers.

In addition, CSIP will be compiling other outcomes from a wide range of stakeholders including suppliers as well as organisations such as NHS PASA who have worked hard to move telecare and telehealth forwards.

The morning of the event will look mainly at the outcomes from telecare and telehealth implementation whilst the afternoon will take a broader look at advanced assistive technology configurations and the future options for supporting independence and managing long term conditions.

With set up work with the three Long Term Condition Demonstrator sites now moving forwards, the recently announced Assisted Living Implementation Programme, the continuing work towards connected home-based technology, the afternoon will provide an opportunity to examine some of the more advanced configurations now becoming available.

Service commissioners are increasingly looking to see how technology can support integrated working, integrated systems, extra care and self care with particular regards to people with long term conditions or who may progress on to intensive social care.

The afternoon sessions will cover:

� The value and importance of predictive models in identifying people who may benefit the most for preventative services

� Commissioning telecare and telehealth within integrated services and the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment

� Future technology and service configurations, interoperability

� The potential for connectivity of telecare and telehealth data to record systems

� Workforce design and integrated working

� Integrated care pathways

� Recent lessons learned from organisations implementing telehealth and advanced assistive technology

After registering, delegates will be sent an e-mail template to enable CSIP to bring short outcome reports (250 words) together for the events.

Outcome reports and presentations will be published at www.icn.csip.org.uk/telecare