Glocs GPs paid £70 a telehealth patient
A £5m telehealth project in Gloucestershire has deployed less than a quarter of its 2,000 devices in its first ten months.
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GPs divided on telehealth
GPs are divided about the benefits of telehealth and telecare, and this can hit patient recruitment rates, WSD experts told the King’s Fund.
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DH ‘must publish’ WSD results
The Department of Health needs to publish the full results of the whole system demonstrator projects to avoid expensive mistakes in the roll-out of its 3millionlives campaign, a senior fellow at the King’s Fund has warned.
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3millionlives concordat signed
The Department of Health formally launched its 3millionlives campaign on the day that the 2020 Health think-tank urged the NHS to learn from the telehealth experience of the US Veterans Health Administration.
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Lloyds to offer smart pill service
Smart pills containing a microchip that can monitor a patient’s medication and condition will be sold in Lloyds pharmacies by September.
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Yorks telehealth delays run up costs
The planned benefits of the largest telehealth scheme outside the whole systems demonstrator programme have not been realised and GPs are now being given incentive payments to use it.
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IG ‘major block’ on IT projects
Information governance is a major stumbling block to IT innovation and service integration, a Westminster Health Forum heard this week.
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NHS website shows telehealth benefits
A new website has been launched by NHS North Yorkshire and York to communicate the benefits that telehealth is having for patients with long term conditions in the area.
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TF3 wins £18m NI telehealth deal
The TF3 consortium has won a six year contract to provide a remote telemonitoring service to more than 8,000 patients across Northern Ireland.
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£10m boost for Scottish telehealth
The Scottish government has announced that it will invest more than £10m in telehealth over the next four years.
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