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Disability charity is awarded £20k grant
A Frome charity that supports people with learning and communication difficulties has been awarded a grant of £20,900.
Openstorytellers, based in Bridge Street, has been given the money over the next two years by Lloyds TSB Foundation for England and Wales.
The grant will help fund an administrator so the charity can continue to help reduce social exclusion.
Openstorytellers was established in 2009 and operates across Somerset and Wiltshire. The administrator will provide support for its projects and services.
‘Give patients smartphones’ call
App designer Geoff Wilcock told BBC Radio Scotland’s Out of Doors programme it would give people access to software that could be created for the NHS.
Mr Wilcox said apps could aid in consultations and cut waiting times.
The Scottish Centre for Telehealth and Telecare said patients expected greater use of technology.
Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) held a workshop on mobile phone applications last month.
The agency said that by 2014 it was expected that some 77 billion apps will have been downloaded from the Android and Apple phone markets.
Mr Wilcock, who took part in the workshop, said the NHS could provide patients with low-cost smartphones.
