Digital Health

1. Digital Health

2. Digital Health Trevor Single Chief Executive Officer Telecare Services Association (TSA)

3. What is the TSA? • The No 1 membership based trade body for the telecare and telehealth industry • Membership of over 370 organisations who provide telecare and telehealth service delivery to over 1.7 million users • Telecare and Telehealth Service Providers (e.g. monitoring centres, mobile response services, installers) • Technology suppliers • Commissioners & Universities • Mainly UK, but growing international membership

4. TSA vision: Vision: ‘People choosing technology enabled care and support to enrich everyday life’. • Unlocking the potential of the telecare and telehealth industry • Working with Government on key strategic developments, such as ‘3millionlives’ • Developing universal quality standards, including the Integrated Telecare and Telehealth Code of Practice • Offering help and advice to those developing and delivering telecare and telehealth products and services. • Driving policy development through engagement with Government, health and care commissioners, opinion makers, key stakeholders.

5. Why do we need to promote the adoption of telecare and telehealth? • 15.5m people in the UK have LTCs (more than 1 in 4 of the population) • In the next five years over 65s will rise from 9.3m to 16.8m • 1 million people are carers • 700k people with dementia – within next 30 years figure will double and cost £50bn a year

6. Why do we need to promote the adoption of telecare and telehealth? Impact on Hospital Services Acute Beds: • 107,444 in England – a decline of 33% in last 5 years • 51,000 occupied by 65 years or older Age: • 65% of people admitted to hospital are over 65 years of age. • Over 85 account for 25% bed days Length of Stay: • Average length of stay 7.7 days • Those over 85 years spend 8 days longer than those aged under 65 years

8. Whole System Demonstrator – headline findings • Telehealth headlines (5 December 2011) show reductions in; • mortality by 45% • emergency admissions by 20% • A&E visits by 15% • bed days by 14% • elective admissions by 14% • Quality of life remains broadly the same • To achieve the benefits needs service transformation • Patient satisfaction very high - age is no barrier

9. Quality

10. Integrated Telecare & Telehealth Code of Practice • Launched May 2013 • Builds on internationally recognised Telecare CoP – developed by TSA • First integrated Telecare and Telehealth Code of Practice in the world • Provides guaranteed high quality assurance to users, carers, commissioners • Provides an independent accreditation process • Open to any service provider in the world to gain accreditation • Over 140 organisations externally audited and accredited

12. Priorities • Empower Commissioning – enabling ready commissioning of telehealth /telecare services based on best practice • Stakeholder Engagement/Communications – aligning stakeholders based on effective clear communications programme • Build Market Capacity – developing collaboration models and confidence for industry to grow at the pace and scale needed by the market • Function/Structure – establishing robust governance and reporting arrangements • Enable Implementation – creating the basis for rapid scalable rollout adopting best practice

13. Digital Health Trevor Single Chief Executive Officer Telecare Services Association (TSA) trevor.single@telecare.org.uk