Department of Health believes three million people could benefit from assistive technologies including telehealth and telecare
The Department of Health has said that over the next five years it will work with industry, the NHS, social care and professional organisations so that people with long term illness can benefit from assistive technologies such as telehealth and telecare.
This further commitment to telehealth and telecare follows the visit by Paul Burstow, the care minister, to Cornwall to see the technologies in use.
Carers ‘disproportionately hit’ by government cuts
Mithran Samuel
Wednesday 04 January 2012 00:13
Carers will be disproportionately hit by government benefit cuts over the coming years, research published today shows.
Tax and benefit changes from 2010-15 will result in a real terms drop of 6% in net income for households where a person claims carer’s allowance, compared with a 4% fall for other households, found an analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies, commissioned by the Family and Parenting Institute.
Plans to reform social care will be put forward in the spring, ministers said.
3 January 2012 Last updated at 08:26
By Nick Triggle Health correspondent, BBC News
Politicians from all parties have been urged to work together to find a way to overhaul the “failing” social care system in England.
Cross-party talks about the care given to the elderly and disabled failed in 2010 but will start again this month.
In an open letter, charities, faith-based groups and senior figures in the NHS and local government say the opportunity must not be missed.
Plans to reform social care will be put forward in the spring, ministers said.
chenrezig 
annie 
JaneJ 