Telecare In Hackney
Published 24th April 2008
Chubb Community Care and the London Borough Of Hackney are proud to announce their partnership working for telecare.
Hackney is a borough in the East of London and has a population of over 210,000, it is one of the most ethnically diverse and most socially deprived in the United Kingdom.
Diversity is important since there is very good evidence that poorer health is associated with poverty and that some minority communities suffer disproportionately from ill health (often compounded by poverty).
The Mayor of Hackney’s first priority, was to ‘improve services and increase opportunities for all, raising the life chances of the most disadvantaged”. The Hackney Telecare strategy built on this aim and developed a two year Telecare project which aimed to support 600 individuals in the community using Telecare by April 2008, this number excluded a small Telehealth project of up to 50 patients.
As part of the initial project, Telehealth was identified as an important element and as of March 2008, the first phase of this project is underway. To date over 650 Telecare installations have been undertaken in Hackney and the project team is actively working to handover the project to the
operational teams.
Hackneys overall aim is to delay or prevent deterioration and promote the independence of older people and their carers in community settings within
Hackney by the effective provision of Telecare. The long term goal when they initially set out on the project was to have telecare mainstreamed by 2008/9 and they are pleased to say that they are on schedule to do this.
For more information on how this was achieved, please view the Telecare In Hackney Case Study
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