Recommendations for improving telecare services

Audit of telecare services in EnglandA recent report published by the Good Governance Institute, ‘Care and support at home: an audit of telecare services in England’, provides recommendations about how telecare services and user outcomes can be improved.

Download ‘Care and support at home: an audit of telecare services in England’

Recommendations include:

  • telecare definitions
  • commissioning pack and plans
  • integration arrangements
  • prevention approaches
  • pooled budgets
  • telecare spending from NHS resources, and
  • awareness raising including Three Million lives.

The report and the analysis it contains was compiled following a number of requests under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 sent to all upper-tier and unitary local authorities in England. The audit was responded to by 121 out of 152 councils (80%) in England. All analyses in this paper are based on the responses of those local authorities that responded in full to the FOI requests.

Find out more at https://www.good-governance.org.uk/Product%20Menus/audit-of-telecare-services-in-england.htm