Telecare eNewsletter February 2013

Welcome to the February 2013 newsletter from the Technology Strategy Board (TSB) Knowledge Transfer Network and the Telecare Learning and Improvement Network. Our free monthly newsletter is distributed to 48,000 subscribers in the UK and worldwide via e-mail and archived at www.telecarelin.org.uk. You can also find highlights on Prezi (monthly) or Rebelmouse (daily). We hope that you find this newsletter useful. With over 1200 news and events links over the last month, it is the most comprehensive newsletter available serving the telecare, telehealth, mobile health, digital health and assisted living communities.

If you have not registered for the ALIP showcase event in Liverpool on 5/6 March or the Healthcare Innovation Expo on 13/14 March you need to act quickly - the newsletter has more details. It is just a month now until the major NHS changes take place in England. 163 clinical commissioning groups have now been authorised - we have an additional supplement (doc, pdf) and signposting map to cover the changes. Over the last month we have seen the publication of the Francis Report and the announcement of a £75k social care cap - we can expect further legislative changes as policy makers prepare a response to the Mid-Staffs report and work out the detail of these future social care changes. We have a major update on the dallas programme from Alison Mlot and colleagues from the different communities. There are important reports from the Nominet Trust on social care innovation (paper by Shirley Ayres) and 2020Health (report by John Cruikshank and Jon Paxman) on the Yorks and Humber Telehealth Hub. There's more on the digital challenge and the paperless NHS. If you work in the NHS, then 13 March is NHS Change Day - now around 70,000 pledges. We have a major article on health apps in the March newsletter, but there is plenty of app and mobile health news in this month's edition too.

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 on Twitter at @3MillLives and also at LinkedIn. If you would like daily information on #telecare and #telehealth, then a Twitter stream is available.

*Late news: First Whole System Demonstrator paper on telecare now published.