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Apart from sailing, what's happening at These Hands Academy, we are working on the Safe Hands Programme especially managing deterioration, and how we support people to recognise early signs of deterioration and then escalate to the right person at the right time. Getting help early can reduce time spent in the hospital or prevent an admission as treatment can be given early and often at home, advancements in technology mean we can connect people up verbally and digitally using standardised information meaning everyone understands what and who we are referring to.
The announcement around the technology and separating health and social care into an NHS and a National care service presents various challenges around funding and anxiety across the workforce. However, this could be the drive for proactive care as the focus is on early intervention and care delivered more locally through neighborhood teams. A one-stop, shop by creating one system for the system.
This means now is a great time to hear from the people on the ground testing various technology solutions in a balanced evaluation so that when the funding becomes available systems can make informed choices to enable future care delivery. At These Hands Academy, we invest our time in hearing from you, and triangulating your feedback with clinical data to provide system-wide evaluations helping local authorities realise the value of their spend.
In other exciting news that we're preparing for is our visit in just under four weeks to the HSJ Patient Safety Awards where we are the finalists in two categories for our work in the LLR Connected Care Programme.
The Initiative of the Year for Remote Monitoring and The Initiative of the Year for Learning Disability which is Chris’s story. Chris, a gold medal winner used to ring 111 several times a day because he was worried about his health, we gave him a telehealth system the Whzan blue box, and supported him to use it.
Whilst the 111 service must miss his daily calls, it’s now been six months since he last called, able to take his observations has given Chris the confidence to do other things the last time I spoke to him he was out sailing!
Please do share his story with the people you think could benefit as this life-changing equipment can change a life.
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