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ALIP: Telecare eNewsletter April 2014 (Telecare LIN)
Summary The prodigiously informative April 2014 newsletter from the Technology Strategy Board (TSB), HealthTech Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN) and the Telecare Learning and Improvement Network was released recently. Full Text Link Reference Assisted Living Innovation Platform (ALIP) Newsletter. April 2014. … Continue reading →
Posted in Assistive Technology, Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Housing, Housing LIN, Integrated Care, International, Management of Condition, National, Person-Centred Care, Practical Advice, Quick Insights, Telecare, Telehealth, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Ageing Well With Technology, Airedale Hospital Telehealth Hub, Aktive Conference, ALIP: Telecare eNewsletter, Alliance for Connected Care (USA), Assisted Living Innovation Platform, Assisted Living Innovation Platform (ALIP), ATHENE: Assistive Technologies for Healthy living in Elders: Needs Assessment by Ethnography, Australian Ageing Agenda, Barker Commission, Better, Better Care Fund, Better Care Fund Plans, Birmingham Policy Commission, Centre for Assistive Technology and Connected Healthcare (CATCH), Commissioning of Telehealth, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO): Australia, Comorbidities Framework, Connecting Assistive Solutions to Aspirations: CASA, DALLAS (Delivering Assisted Living Lifestyles at Scale), dallas Programme, Day-to-Day Co-Production of Ageing in Place, Digital Health and Care Alliance (DHACA), Floor Tiles: Monitoring Health of Older People, Flourish: Aspirational Aging, GP Access Fund, Grand National Challenge, Guardian Healthcare Network, Hospital Admissions, Hospitals Without Walls, Housing Learning and Improvement Network (LIN), i-focus, Improving General Practice, Institute for Prospective Technological Studies: European Commission, Integrated Telecare and Telehealth Code of Practice (TSA), International Telecare and Telehealth Conference, Inventya Ltd, Kaiser Permanente Discharge app, King’s Fund Barker Commission, Liverpool Community Health Services, Living it Up (LiU), Living Well for Longer, Long Term Care Revolution Programme, Measuring the Quality of Integrated Care, Mi (More Independent), Mobile Technology, NHS Improving Quality Newsletter, NHS Scotland's Innovation Portal, Nursing Technology Fund, One Precious Life, ParkinsonNet, Patient and Client Council, Philips Healthcare, Philips Lifeline, PM Challenge Fund, PM Challenge Fund Pilots, Poppins Project, Preventable Hospital Admissions, Prime Minister Challenge Fund Pilots, Prime Minister’s GP Access Fund, Prof. Heinz Wolff, Project RITA, Protecting Our Parents (BBC Series), Regional innovation Fund (RIF), Responsive InTeractive Advocate (RITA), Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust, SALTC: Simulating Ageing and Long Term Conditions, Smartphone Mobile Applications to Monitor Symptoms of Mental Health Conditions, Smartphones, Social Care Commitment, SociBot: Social Robot, South Staffordshire and Shropshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, TaskRabbit, Technology Enabled Care Services (TECS), Technology Enabled Care Services Programme, Technology Strategy Board (TSB), Technology Strategy Board’s Assisted Living Innovation Platform (ALIP), Telecare Learning and Improvement Network, Telecare LIN, Telecare Services Association (TSA), TeleCoaching, Telehealth Physio Services, Telemedicine, Telemedicine in Arizona, Telephonic Medication Therapy Management to Reduce Hospitalization in Home Health Patients, TeleServices, Transforming Primary Care Report, Try (AT) Before They Buy, Tunstall Healthcare (UK), UKTelehealthcare, Unnecessary Hospital Admissions, Views on Telemonitoring Services, Warm Neighbourhoods, Year Zero
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Whistleblowing in the NHS: Theory Versus Practice? (BBC News / Whistleblowing Helpline / NAO / SCIE)
Summary Dr Raj Mattu, a heart specialist was dismissed by University Hospital of Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust in 2010, after almost a decade of alleged unfair treatment by his employers, since exposing the cases of two patients who had … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, In the News, National, National Audit Office, NHS, Practical Advice, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged BBC Health News, BBC News: Coventry & Warwickshire, BBC News: Today (Radio 4), BBC Radio 4: Today Programme, Behaviours to Enable Whistleblowing, Bullying of Whistleblowers, Candour, Character Assassination of Whistleblowers, Corporate Self-Interest (Ahead of Patients), Culture of Delay and Denial, Defensive Leadership, Dr Raj Mattu (Consultant), Fear of Raising Concerns About Care, Flowchart of Whistleblowing Process, Freedom To Speak Up Review (Sir Robert Francis QC), Goldman Sachs, Harassment of Whistleblowers, HMRC, Honesty, House of Commons, House of Commons Committee of Public Accounts, Improving Patient Safety, Incentivising Candour, Local Ward Cultures, Margaret Hodge, Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust, Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust Inquiry, National Audit Office (NAO), Negative Culture, NHS Constitution, NHS Constitution and Whistleblowing, NHS Corporate Self-Interest, NHS Culture, NHS Hospitals Complaints System, NHS Managerial Self-Interest, Openness, Openness and Transparency, Organisational and Professional Cultures, Organisational Culture and Climate, Parliamentarians, Patient Safety, Patient Safety Incidents, Patients First and Foremost, Public Accounts Committee, Public Concern at Work, Public Disclosure Act (1988), Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998 (PIDA), Putting Patients First, Qualtrics, Raising Concerns, Raising Concerns Around Deaths, Raising Concerns Policy, Reluctance to Raise Concerns About Care, SCIE Social Care TV, Shaping Culture, Sir Robert Francis QC, Social Care Code of Conduct, Social Care Commitment, Social Care TV, Speaking Out, Staff Awareness, Stages in Raising Concerns, Structures to Enable Whistleblowing, Systems to Support Whistleblowing, Treatment of Whistleblowers (Shoddy), Trust Blame and the Culture of Defensiveness, Victimisation of Whistleblowers, Whistleblowing, Whistleblowing Guidance, Whistleblowing Helpline, Whistleblowing in the Public Sector, Whistleblowing In the Wind, Whistleblowing Policy, Winterbourne View Hospital, Workplace Culture, Zero Tolerance Approaches
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Briefing on the Francis Inquiry for Social Care Providers (VODG / NCF / Sue Ryder)
Summary The Voluntary Organisations and Disability Groups (VODG), with the National Care Forum (NCF) and Sue Ryder, have produced a joint two-part briefing to explain the importance and relevance of the Francis Inquiry, and the resulting NHS reforms, from the perspective … Continue reading →
Posted in Charitable Bodies, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, National, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Practical Advice, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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