Telehealth

The Pan Bath and Swindon Primary Care Research Consortium are planning a conference in collaboration with the Bath Institute for Mechanical Engineering (BIME) http://www.bath.ac.uk/bime/. Focused on telehealth, SMART HOMES and community and primary care, aims to attract all Primary Care Trust (PCT) staff including Occupational Therapists, policy makers, academics and engineers.

The Consortium has a long history of support for BIME as they continue to work on SMART housing for people with dementia; improving care through the application of sensitively designed technology. Their installations in people's homes allow users to remain independent for as long as possible therefore supporting Government and Primary Care Trust strategy to enable self management for chronic conditions in a community setting.

The event is organised by the prestigious KT-EQUAL network whose remit is to increase the Knowledge Transfer of research and has a focus on assisted technology in a community setting.
The progress into telecare and telehealth, which BIME is pioneering, is an area in which the PBSPCRC see as the future in managing the increasing elderly population in our largely rural and dispersed geographical region.  Swindon PCT are currently pursuing related, leading initiatives to provide a more responsive community based model of care and all our PCTs are seeing the future in terms of mainstreaming its use of telehealth solutions, to provide more timely and preventative care and support for people with long term conditions. This event will celebrate and explore the work of BIME and other local telehealth initiatives.
The conference will include presentations by guest speakers, as well as a poster session and an excellent opportunity for networking - the aim of the meeting is to develop new research opportunities and collaborations.

Please follow the link for the workshop programme.

Please follow the links for the speaker's presentations:

Claire Goodchild - Living well with dementia in the community

Mike Clark - Department of Health Care Networks, what we can offer?

Anna Field - Swindon COPD telehealth goes mainstream

Dr Clare Emmett - Developing a telehealth intervention delivered by NHS Direct for the management of long-term conditions

Tim Adlam - SMART Homes: Improving the quality of life for people with dementia

Alison Rouse - A social care partnership perspective; challenges and solution

Dr Ben Rosser - SMART2: Telehealth facilitating self-management of chronic pain