Evidence
Widespread evidence of efficiency and quality of life gains exist today – the benefits are undeniable. Telehealthcare can dramatically improve the lives of people as well as their carers and is an enabler for re-engineering of health and social care provision whilst creating an integrated healthcare pathway.
The economic case for Tunstall’s solutions is proven and very compelling.
 | Between August 2006 and March 2011, the Scottish Government made £20.35 million available under the Telecare Development Programme (TDP) to drive the adoption of telecare by local social and health care service providers. Approximately £13.6 million of TDP funding was reported as spent by local partnerships by March 2011, with another £5.9 million as match funding. 44,000 people began a telecare service through TDP funding over the period 2006-2011. The main findings of the report are: - Around 2,500 hospital discharges were expedited
- 8,700 unplanned hospital admissions avoided
- 3,800 care home admissions were avoided
- The gross value of TDP funded efficiencies was approximately £78.6 million
By achieving the above outcomes, partnerships saved around: - 546,000 care home bed days.
- 109,000 hospital bed days through facilitated discharges and unplanned admissions avoided.
- 48,000 nights of sleepover/wakened night care.
- 444,000 home check visits.
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| GGI Documents |
 | Reablement Board Assurance Prompt The Good Governance Institute has compiled a Board Assurance Report (BAP) aimed at those involved in planning, commissioning and delivering reablement services. The purpose of the report is to not only support the work being carried out with regard to reablement but to also emphasise and highlight how telecare is an important element to any reablement service that aspires to 'best in class'. Click here to view the board assurance prompt. |
 | Report Briefing document from Good Governance Institute for healthcare leaders to raise debate around one of the most promising opportunities that technology brings to healthcare -telehealth. Includes audit guide. Click here to view the report. |
 | Board Assurance Prompts To be read in conjunction with above report provide means for healthcare leaders to assure themselves they are effectively addressing governance, quality and safety issues inherent in providing care at home. View the Managing Long Term Conditions Board Assurance Prompt View the Implementing Telehealth Services Borard Assurance Prompt |
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 | The Strategic Society Centre has published a new report, Telecare Ready: Creating a universal entitlement to telecare, as part of its Care Funding Futures work programme. The report calls on the Government to create a universal entitlement to telecare support. The new report, supported by Tunstall, highlights the need for the implementation of a new strategic framework for telecare policy, which includes a clear and consistent national entitlement and assessment model for telecare, with funding independent from council decisions. It also calls for a telecare service that is free at the point of use, regardless of wealth, or applies some low-level weekly charges. The full report can be downloaded here. |
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 | IRISS has published a practice-oriented evidence summary on the subject of supporting unpaid carers through telecare. Entitled, Supporting unpaid carers: the benefits of telecare, the summary forms part of the IRISS Insights series that has been developed to assist the social services workforce to readily access and use evidence to inform their practice. Click here to read the full report. |
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 | John Cruickshank from 2020health introduced the “Healthcare without walls - a framework for delivering telehealth at scale” report which considers, based on a thorough analysis of the relevant evidence and of related organisational, delivery and technology factors, how best the NHS should now exploit the potential of telehealth. The report also says that the NHS could save up to £1bn by embracing high-tech monitoring of chronic sick. Click here to read the full report. |
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 | Professor Sue Yeandle, University of Leeds launched the “Telecare: a crucial opportunity to help save our health & social care system” demonstrating that telecare offers a proven “win-win” for the health and social care system. Andrew Lansley, Secretary of State for Health wrote the forward to the paper. Click here to read the full report. |
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 | Scotland Telecare Development Fund - investment in telecare was shown to deliver a 5-times return on investment, demonstrating projected savings of £43 million by 2010 (Mar 08 7,902 users). Click here to read the full report. |
Multiple case studies exist to evidence Tunstall’s model:
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