http://www.telecareconsulting.com/blog Telecare & Telehealth: Expert Help for Your Implementation Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:42:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.telecareconsulting.com/blog/2009/01/telecare-and-telehealth-project-management-services/comment-page-1/#comment-3 Mike Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:42:07 +0000 http://www.telecareconsulting.com/blog/?p=15#comment-3 Personalised budgets offer the potential for a person to be in control of how they manage their own health and care. It is certainty a shift in approach and culture, from a service prevision in which the individual has had to fit into the system to one in which the system will have to adapt to provide the means for this new person-centred approach to be able to accommodate and respond to new ways providing individual needs-driven services. Signposting to and quality checks of service providers will need to be implemented if choice is to be achieved. It has many implications and no doubt from past experiences will take a long time for organisations to adapt to this new way of thinking. Telecare and other assistive technology will play an increasingly important role in this respect and yet, even after several years of receiving funding from the Preventative Technology Grant, a great many local authorities have not mainstreamed a Telecare service to be able to respond to this shift in policy approach. The changing demographics and strains on resources - both finacial and human, make it of even greater importance to use technolgy to its best advantage to support, contribute and compliment other forms of care. Personalised budgets offer the potential for a person to be in control of how they manage their own health and care. It is certainty a shift in approach and culture, from a service prevision in which the individual has had to fit into the system to one in which the system will have to adapt to provide the means for this new person-centred approach to be able to accommodate and respond to new ways providing individual needs-driven services. Signposting to and quality checks of service providers will need to be implemented if choice is to be achieved.
It has many implications and no doubt from past experiences will take a long time for organisations to adapt to this new way of thinking.
Telecare and other assistive technology will play an increasingly important role in this respect and yet, even after several years of receiving funding from the Preventative Technology Grant, a great many local authorities have not mainstreamed a Telecare service to be able to respond to this shift in policy approach. The changing demographics and strains on resources – both finacial and human, make it of even greater importance to use technolgy to its best advantage to support, contribute and compliment other forms of care.

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