Roy Lilley on the CECOPS Technology Enabled Care Code
Roy Lilley kindly provided a foreword for the new International Code of Practice for Planning, Commissioning and Providing Technology Enabled Care Services, as follows. (Details about the Code can be found HERE) “An outcomes-based Code of Practice for both commissioning and providing Technology Enabled Care Services, who’d have thought it? And it’s fabulous! Commissioning; there is…
Shaping the future of the digital health marketplace
I was recently asked to explain the digital health marketplace in the UK and how providers are supposed to access the market. This marketplace includes, for example, telehealth, telemedicine, eHealth and mHealth products, as well as telecare. A marketplace is formed where there is demand for a product or service, and when this demand is…
Organisational readiness: Technology Enabled Care Services
Having previously worked in the public sector I have personally been guilty of procuring technologies without firstly giving a lot of consideration as to how ready the organisation was to use the technologies effectively. For example, does the organisation have the right skills, resource, capacity or information systems to benefit from such technologies and measure…
Technology enabled care services (TECS) see first International Code and support tools
The first ever Code of Practice and support tools covering all aspects of planning, commissioning and providing technology enabled care services (e.g. telehealth, telecare, eHealth, digital health) have been developed by CECOPS, the independent standards body in the UK for assistive technology services. Uniquely, this new Code, which sets out standards covering every aspect of…
Will Personal Health Budgets for wheelchairs fix the problems?
NHS England recently announced that to give people more choice and control about the care they receive, personal health budgets will be extended to cover wheelchairs from April 2017. This move is intended to support the government’s target of enabling 100,000 people to benefit from greater control via personal health budgets by 2020/21. It is…
Code of Practice for Disability Equipment, Wheelchair and Seating Services
Code of Practice for Disability Equipment, Wheelchair and Seating Services.
This CECOPS official guide is essential reading for all commissioners, providers and clinical staff involved with these services.
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First ever International Code of Practice for Planning, Commissioning and Providing Technology Enabled Care Services!
If you are involved in planning, commissioning or providing Technology Enabled Care Services (TECS) e.g. telecare, telehealth, digital health, then this Code is for you.
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“HSE recognises the need for guidance, and welcomes the code of practice…The code will help organisations who commission or provide community equipment make health and safety improvements in their businesses.”
Health and Safety Executive
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‘Independent task group driving digital health readiness’
A new independent group has been formed to drive forward the much needed digital health readiness agenda. This will be led by CECOPS CIC*, and supported by many experts in the digital health space. The formation of this group follows a webinar run by CECOPS ‘DIGITAL HEALTH READINESS, DURING & POST COVID-19 PANDEMIC’**. There was…
CECOPS Webinar (9th April 2020, 2pm-3.30pm): Hospital Discharge Arrangements
In the current COVID-19 pandemic it is important to free up as many hospital beds as possible by safely discharging people back into their home or another suitable place within the community. Hospital discharges are complex, and require good co-ordination between hospital and community staff to arrange clinical assessments, equipment deliveries, care packages etc. The…
AJM Healthcare gains CECOPS Corporate Accreditation for its Community Equipment and Integrated Wheelchair Services, nationwide!
AJM Healthcare has gained the highly regarded CECOPS Corporate Accreditation for its Community Equipment, Integrated Wheelchair Services and Approved Repairer Services. AJM is a growing organisation providing 20+ services nationwide. AJM delivers a range of mobility equipment solutions to the NHS, Local Authority partners and individuals across the UK, providing good quality, outcome-led services in…
