TAPPI Cast – 26 May 2023
On Tuesday, TSA’s event ‘My Home, My Care, My Way - Health, housing and care at the centre of everything we do (opens new window)’ took place in Durham and was attended by 170 delegates. This event explored how technology can truly be integrated into health, housing and social care, including the latest from TAPPI with TAPPI chair, Professor Roy Sandbach, Director of Membership & Consultancy Services at TSA, Nathan Downing and Scottish TAPPI testbed Bield Housing and Care's Chief Executive, Lynne Douglas. You can download the slides here.
Updates from our Testbeds:
We have been receiving great feedback from those who attended the launch of the Bield Tech Hub last week and will be reaching out to partners who expressed an interest in working with us strategically.
In addition, we have had some interest, mainly from local Health & Social Care Partnerships, who want to visit the Bield Tech Hub with their teams.
We are also continuing to install technology into the homes of participants who have agreed to be part of our trial and are monitoring the data from those who had the technology installed at the start of May.
Publications of interest:
The May edition of TSA's Industry Magazine, TEC Voice is out. It includes the latest news and thought leadership in TEC, a recap of ITEC 2023, and Debra Edwards’ (TAPPI Co-production champion in Haringey’s testbed site) Personal Story. Hers and 3 other Personal Stories can be found on the TAPPI microsite here. We look forward to publishing the next set of TAPPI Personal Stories in June.
Analogue to Digital; how do we know we are getting it right? (opens new window)
Two weeks ago, 2iC-Care hosted a webinar about getting the analogue to digital switchover right. The panel featured leaders from Hackney Council and Essex County Council. You can watch the webinar on demand here (opens new window).
If you're pushed for time and can't watch the whole webinar, this summary blog (opens new window) provides key action points for local authorities
Transforming social care with the right technology (opens new window)
Pressures already in the system, and projections of rising demand for services from an ageing population, means technology will need to play an increasingly important role in helping to expand capacity in the care system to meet these growing challenges. In this blog, Gavin Bashar, UK&I MD at Tunstall Healthcare, discusses how technology can help local authorities and social care providers transform adult social care services.
The Care Technologist Project (opens new window)
An interesting read about the new "Care Technologists" role in Scotland. Their job involves visiting homes to get to know people accessing care and creating digital care plans to help them live well. Find out more here (opens new window).
Digital working in adult social care: What Good Looks Like
A reminder that the Department of Health and Social Care released last week Guidance for care providers and local authorities on What Good Looks Like (WGLL) for digital working in adult social care as part of their work to achieve their ambitions for digital transformation as set out in People at the Heart of Care.
Forthcoming events of interest:
Click here (opens new window) for a list of all forthcoming TAPPI related events, including:
- 27-29 June in Manchester - CIH Annual Conference 'Housing 2023' (opens new window) – Prof Roy Sandbach, TAPPI Chair, Lynn Douglas, CEO, Bield Housing & Care, and Debra Edwards, TAPPI Co-production Champion will run a TAPPI sessions along with other TAPPI presentations during the conference by Alyson Scurfield, CEO, TSA; Jeremy Porteus, CEO, Housing LIN; and Jirko Hoogerwerf, TAPPI Steering Board member. We hope to see you there!