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Have a browse through the Telecare flowcharts developed by North Yorks.

This report explores the complex ethical issues surrounding the commissioning and provision of telecare and the difficult decisions that professionals may face. There is also an At A Glance briefing on the report.

This is a case study from the West Midlands Improvement and Efficiency Partnership giving details on a pilot carried out for an automated pill dispenser.

Telecare can sustain people with a wide range of conditions in their own homes, and offer support to their carers, so that resources which would otherwise be spent on hospital, residential or nursing care can be allocated elsewhere in the health and social care system. Much has been written on the use of telecare over the past few years.

A summary of how telecare can be used to achieve significant efficiencies and improvements in the use of resources.

A document to support the development of a business case for telecare. This document looks at building a case for change.

Report on Telecare in London conducted October 2009. 23 London boroughs took part in this surveyTelecare can sustain people with a wide range of conditions in their own homes, and offer support to their carers, so that resources which would otherwise be spent on hospital residential or nursing care can be allocated elsewhere in the health and social care system.

Telehealthcare, or assistive technology, offers significant potential for helping people with complex and unpredictable needs to stay independent and live in their own homes for much longer. It offers a genuine alternative to long term residential care and can deliver significant efficiency savings.

An in-depth analysis of the benefits of the SP programme to highlight learning for Personalisation in the North East. This project will undertake an in-depth regional analysis of the benefits of the Supporting People Programme to highlight where efficiencies and good commissioning practise could affect the costs of procurement of Social Care Services for Independent Living, in advance of the mainstreaming of the supporting people programme by March 2011.

A comprehensive project to support development of the market place in the North East, this project involved a Festival of Ideas and a Provider Innovation Fund. This project will work with established service providers, including in-house, local authority services, to assist them to deliver personalisation as a first step towards self directed support.