Lives not improved by telehealth
Telehealth does not improve quality of life for patients with long term conditions, according to a new report on the Whole Systems Demonstrator programme.
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Lamb ‘banging the drum’ for telehealth
Care minister Norman Lamb will be “banging the drum” for telehealth and telecare, trying to convince everyone in his path, he said at a conference this week.
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Cornwall to buy ‘at scale’ tele-services
GP commissioners in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly are looking to procure a telemedicine service to support up to 20,000 patients.
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WSD results: ‘complex’ not compelling
The whole systems demonstrator project failed to show a reduction in emergency admissions or cost savings in regards to hospital activity, an analyst has revealed.
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Burstow puts WSD delay on publisher
Peer reviewed results of the whole systems demonstrator programme are sitting with the British Medical Journal and will be released “over the next weeks and months”, care services minister Paul Burstow has promised.
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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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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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Full WSD results expected by autumn
The full results from the evaluation of the world’s biggest telehealth trial are not expected to be published in full for another six to nine months.
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