Welcome to the Telehealthcare Community portal. The portal provides information, resources and education for NHS Scotland, local authority and voluntary sector staff about telehealth and telecare services.

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The SCTT's next monthly webcast will take place on 26th April 2012 at 11am.

The webcast title is: Epilepsy: Telehealth and Telecare Approaches. 

The webcast will be hosted by Cathy Dorrian, Service Development Manager, SCTT and presented by Joanne Hill, Epilepsy Specialist Nurse, Quarriers and Jim Slaven, Telecare Co-ordinator, West Dumbartonshire.

You can view the webcast live or as a recorded session from later the same day.

To view the session, please visit the Video3 website and register for a user name and password.  Once there, you can access a test page to check that you will be able to view the webcast from your PC.  Once you've signed up for a user name and password, you will be able to view recorded webcasts at any time by following this link - http://www.video3uk.com/eventcasts 

E-Health Insider Awards 2012.  Award sponsored by Highlands and Islands Enterprise.

As part of Life Sciences promotion and marketing of regional expertise in digital healthcare, Highlands and Islands Enterprise are now sponsors of the EHI Awards 2012. The category in which they are sponsoring is the:

'OUTSTANDING WORK IN IT-ENABLED CHANGE IN HEALTHCARE' Click on the link to find out more. The closing date for short listing is the Friday 1st June 2012.

Check out the Scottish Centre for Telehealth and Telecare and the Scottish Government Joint Improvement Team's Telecare Development Programme websites for the latest news about what's happening in Scotland.

The Whole System Demonstrator Programme - Headline Findings, December 2011. The WSD Programme, which was started in 2008 by the Department of Health, and which has involved over 6,000 services users in England has published this keenly anticipated initial report. The findings indicate that, correctly used, telehealth can result in substantial reductions in areas of high service demand such as: A&E visits, emergency admissions and elective admissions.

New SQA Award - Professional Development Award (PDA) in Telehealthcare!

The Scottish Qualifications Authority has just launched a Professional Development Award (PDA) in Telehealthcare at SCQF level 6.  The PDA comprises of two HN Units, each at SCQF level 6. It provides an SQA qualification for support staff working within the telehealthcare sector - namely installers, call handlers and responders working in telecare service delivery.

This qualification is available through colleges and training provideres.  Delivery approaches such as distance learning, e-learning and workplace learning are actively encouraged.  Find out more about the award here.

Queens Nursing Institute

The Queens Nursing Institute has launched a new report  Smart New World which highlights the variation in nursing teams approaches to using technology to support the delivery of nursing in home/community settings.  

Safer Walking Guidance

A new guidance document for Telecare Services and Assessors:

“Towards Implementing a Safer Walking Service with GPS Technology”.

It was put together by a group of Telecare Leads from SE Scotland and is now available via the JIT website.

 http://www.jitscotland.org.uk/action-areas/telecare-in-scotland/

Telescope: Telehealth Services Code of Practices for Europe has just (September 2011) produced 2 new publications on ethics and good practice and a glossary of terms.

http://www.telehealthcode.eu/project/documents.html

King's Fund Telehealth and Telecare Resource

From 18 November 2011 if you are searching for information about the Whole System Demonstrator you will be directed here Focus on long term conditions.

Scottish eHealth Strategy 2011-17

The second eHealth Strategy for NHSScotland published September 2011.

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2011/09/09103110/0

A Guide to Medication Reminders

Falkirk CHP Telecare Partnership has produced a catalogue of devices and equipment that can be used to support medication management.  The Guide to Medication Reminders can be found in the Resource Library (top left) or click here - - http://www.knowledge.scot.nhs.uk/media/CLT/ResourceUploads/1011471/Medication%20Reminer%20Equipment%20Catalogue%20-%20Falkirk%20CHP%20Telecare%20Partnership%20-%20April%202011.doc

New Telehealthcare Workbook

Telehealthcare and Falls aims to demonstrate how telehealthcare equipment can help mitigate the risks and consequences of falls. This book was written in conjunction with the Dementia Services Development Centre.

The book can be accessed via the JIT website's Telecare section or by clicking here -http://www.knowledge.scot.nhs.uk/media/CLT/Res

April 2012

 
18th April 2012
NHS Highland and Inverness College UHI (funded by HIE) are providing an INNOVATION PROGRAMME for all interested businesses in Highland.

To start the Programme, they are organising an INNOVATION OPEN DAY on 18th April 2012 at the Centre for Health Science near Raigmore Hospital in Inverness. please phone Frances Hines, the R&D Manager for NHS Highland on 01463 255822 or email her on frances.hines@nhs.net 

26th April 2012 - SCTT Live webcast
The third of the Scottish Centre for Telehealth and Telecare’s Learning Network events takes place on Thursday 26th April 2012, 11am - 12pm, with a live webcast featuring the use of telehealth and telecare in supporting people with epilepsy.

The session will be hosted by Cathy Dorrian, SCTT and presented by Jim Slaven, West Dunbartonshire Council and Joanne Hill, Quarriers.

If you wish to participate in the live session, please visit the Video 3 website and register for a user name and password.  Once there, you can access a test page to check that you will be able to view the webcast from your PC.   
 

If you are not able to participate in the live webcast session, and you've already signed up for a user name and password you will be able to view it at any time after the event by following this link - http://www.video3uk.com/sctt.

May 2012

 
The SCTT Telehealth and Telecare Learning Network will be hosting a networking event in Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh to promote shared learning and knowledge transfer across Scotland.  If you would like to register for this free event, please click here.

June 2012

Scottish Pulmonary Rehabilitation Action Group

Following a pulmonary rehabilitation study in Stirling in 2011 a national clinical interest group has been established.  They are holding their first conference on 1 June 2012 in Perth.  Please contact Lindsay.Willis@nhs.net for more details.

September 2012

"Inaugural Conference of the International Society for Social Paediatrics and Child Health, September 2012"

An opportunity for colleagues to attend and potentially present their telehealth related work at an International Conference without having to go any further than St Andrew's, Fife!  The conference organisers welcome abstracts for oral and poster presenatations from all specialists, practitioners and researchers on the subject of "Social Paediatrics", which is defined as 'an approach to child health that focuses on the child, in illness and in health, within the context of their society, environment, school and family'.  Deadline for receipt of abstracts is Friday 18 May 2012.  For further information: http://www.issop2012.co.uk/