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NHS telehealth will not get national implementation
13 November 2012
Three million people will benefit from telehealth systems.
Remote telehealth monitoring systems are not being rolled out on a national basis and decisions where the technology is used will depend on “robust” business cases, health minister Norman Lamb has said.
The government has promised that three million people will benefit from telehealth systems. Telehealth and telecare services rely on devices which allow doctors to monitor patients from their homes.
The tools are intended to reduce the need for hospital visits and to help the NHS reduce costs in dealing with long term conditions – the largest resource drain on the health service.
Telehealth could reduce emergency admissions and extend life expectancy for patients, Lamb said in answer to a parliamentary question.
Don’t just blame staff – companies must be ‘accountable’ for care home failings
Minister pledges new rules to ensure firms which fail vulnerable patients are punished
Nina Lakhani
Tuesday 13 November 2012
Private companies which get public money to run care homes will be made “corporately accountable” for poor standards, the Care Services minister has pledged.
Norman Lamb said he would address regulatory gaps to ensure there were consequences for firms which failed vulnerable patients in hospitals or care homes. At present, care home staff and managers are more likely to be held accountable for abuse than the companies, executives and investors that actually profit from failing homes.
Jane Holmes: Who cares for the carers?
What happens when the carer becomes ill?
By Jane Holmes
November 12, 2012
Jane Holmes is chief executive of Wokingham-based charity Building for the Future which provides support and activities for disabled children.
She set up the charity after her daughter Kitty was born with severe cerebral palsy.
Yesterday, I was talking to a single mum of a disabled adult about respite provision.
My friend, whose beautiful young adult daughter has the developmental age of a baby, has found herself having to fight to get the help they need.
Of course she’s been through this once, when her daughter was a child, but the whole process starts anew at age eighteen.
What would you do if your adult child needed more care than the average baby? Just imagine it for a moment. And let’s not be complacent … all of our kids are just one car crash away ..
