Telecare eNewsletter December 2012

Best wishes for the holiday season and New Year

Welcome to the December 2012 newsletter from the Technology Strategy Board (TSB) Knowledge Transfer Network and the Telecare Learning and Improvement Network. Our free monthly newsletter is distributed to 46,000 subscribers in the UK and worldwide via e-mail and archived at www.telecarelin.org.uk. You can also now find highlights on Prezi. We hope that you find this newsletter useful. With around 1000 news and events links over the last month, it is the most comprehensive newsletter available serving the telecare, telehealth, ehealth and assisted living communities.

From April 2013, The NHS Commissioning Board will be taking forwards a number of mandated policy initiatives to start to embed digital technologies into healthcare. This will be vital as the recent Nuffield Trust reports indicate a major financial gap developing in health and social care budgets over the next ten years. In addition, Personal Health Budgets are expected to move ahead and the Department of Health is consulting on a new GP contract which could reimburse telehealth services. The first 34 clinical commissioning groups in England have been authorised. There are new reports this month on telecare and Telehealth from Deloitte and HACIRIC. There is more in the newsletter about the upcoming ALIP showcase event in March 2013, the 6th AAL call and UK capabilities report.

The links section is now available in a separate supplement rather than in the main newsletter (doc, pdf). A selection from this month's listing is covered in the newsletter.

The newsletter contains a list of KTN/ALIP activities, conferences and workshops from the UK and Europe over the coming weeks as well as news from the UK and around the world. For weekly news, updates and information, you can register with the Technology Strategy Board, ALIP group and the DALLAS sub-group. You can follow the dallas programme on Twitter at @dallas_connect. 3 Million Lives is now on Twitter at @3MillLives and also at LinkedIn. If you would like daily information on #telecare and #telehealth, then a Twitter stream is available (you do not need to register on Twitter and it is accessible to organisations not able to connect directly to social media).