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4 July 2013

Telehealth doesn’t improve self care

Telehealth does not improve patients’ self-care behaviour, an evaluation of the Whole System Demonstrator programme reveals.
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20 November 2012

Revolutionary road

The government has promised a telehealth revolution; but there has been little sign of one at the events that Lis
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13 March 2012

GPs divided on telehealth

GPs are divided about the benefits of telehealth and telecare, and this can hit patient recruitment rates, WSD experts told
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12 March 2012

WSD results: ‘complex’ not compelling

The whole systems demonstrator project failed to show a reduction in emergency admissions or cost savings in regards to hospital
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7 March 2012

Burstow puts WSD delay on publisher

Peer reviewed results of the whole systems demonstrator programme are sitting with the British Medical Journal and will be released
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27 February 2012

DH ‘must publish’ WSD results

The Department of Health needs to publish the full results of the whole system demonstrator projects to avoid expensive mistakes
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5 January 2012

Records ‘needed for integrated care’

Two think-tanks that are well-known for influencing government policy have called for a major investment in IT to promote integrated
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24 March 2011

GPs should be navigators not gatekeepers

GPs need to adopt technology and find ways to address variations in practice, a major new report by the King's
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7 March 2011

Full WSD results expected by autumn

The full results from the evaluation of the world’s biggest telehealth trial are not expected to be published in full
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24 February 2011

Risk model applied to social care

Researchers at the Nuffield Trust have succeeded in building a model to identify people at risk of needing social care
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