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Telehealth Charles Lowe, Telecare/Telehealth Project Delivery Manager, Surrey County Council Emma Daniells, Public Health Lead, Surrey PCT. Purpose. To describe telehealth briefly, especially the potential benefits To ensure there is full support for the use of telehealth in E Surrey .
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Telehealth Charles Lowe, Telecare/Telehealth Project Delivery Manager, Surrey County Council Emma Daniells, Public Health Lead, Surrey PCT
Purpose • To describe telehealth briefly, especially the potential benefits • To ensure there is full support for the use of telehealth in E Surrey
Current situation • £3.9m budget set aside for telehealth, expires 31/03/13 • Developed procurement strategy, incl detailed requirements; start early July • Stakeholder/comms plan being finalised • Developing telehealth business cases • Care pathway meetings where requested • Integrate with risk stratification
Resulting in... • Improved population health • Improved patient outcomes • Reduced unplanned hospitalisations • Cost savings • HAIs avoided • Reduced dementia progression • Early discharge • Improved medicines management • Reduced nursing home/care referrals • Reduced CO2 emissions • Medical advances
Compare QIPP objectives • Reduce unplanned hospitalisations • Reduce development of comorbidities • Slow disease progress • Improve medicines management • Encourage patient self-management • Improve depression/anxiety management for people with LTCs
The kit is only a small part though • Key equipment requirements: • User-friendly • Reliable • Supported • Upgradable remotely • Flexible • Easy to evaluate • Cheap to deploy & use
Thank You Charles Lowe, Telecare/Telehealth Project Delivery Manager, Surrey County Council Emma Daniells, Public Health Lead, Surrey PCT
WSD telehealth – Initial results • 15% reduction in A&E visits • 20% reduction in emergency admissions • 14% reduction in elective admissions • 14% reduction in bed days • 8% reduction in tariff costs • 45% reduction in mortality rates Still nothing published on telecare benefits