The Rt Hon Andrew Lansley CBE MP recently pointed out that 'engaged patients are more likely to manage self-care'. With an ageing population and increasing prevalence of chronic and long-term illness, the need to find new and effective ways to engage patients in managing their long-term conditions is greater than ever. Telehealth and telecare have the potential to meet rising demand and be cost-effective. However, with budgets being cut, health and social care professionals need to be confident that these innovations will provide a return on investment and release cost-savings in the future.

This half-day conference will enable you to explore how mainstreaming telehealth and telecare could potentially provide a cost-effective way of managing long-term conditions.

This conference will:

• provide you with the policy vision for the future of telehealth and telecare
• feature case studies from areas that have delivered cost-savings by implementing telehealth and telecare
• debate whether cost-savings are realistic, and if there is scope for mainstreaming telehealth and telecare across health and social care.

Opening session

10.00-11.00am

• The vision for telecare and telehealth
  Stephen Johnson, Head of Long Term Conditions, Department of Health
• Future developments in telecare and telehealth – demonstrating the cost-effectiveness of these services
  Dr Kevin Doughty, Consultant and Deputy Director, Centre for Useable Home Technology
• Is telecare and telehealth cost-effective?
  Professor Stan Newman, Centre Director and Professor of Health Psychology, UCL Division of Research Strategy, University College London

Break and refreshments

Case Studies

11.15am-12.30pm

This session will feature case studies from areas that have delivered cost-savings by implementing telecare and telehealth.

• Mainstreaming a large scale telecare service – Essex Telecare Pledge
  Gary Raynor, Telecare Services Development Manager, Essex County Council
• Empowering patients to self-manage their long-term conditions
  Hazel Price, Programme Manager, Kent Whole Systems Demonstrator Project
• Cost-savings through mainstreaming telecare
  Adrienne Lucas, Regional Assistive Technology Development Manager, North Yorkshire County Council
• Making the business case for mainstreaming telecare
  Dr Justin Whatling, Chief Clinical Officer, BT Health

Panel discussion

12.30-1.15pm

Is it realistic to expect telecare and telehealth to release cost-savings?

• David Miles, Assistive Technology and Telecare Lead, Nottingham City Council
• Professor Stan Newman, Centre Director and Professor of Health Psychology, UCL Division of Research Strategy, University College London
• Sally Parker, Telehealth Lead, NHS Nottingham City

1.15pm: Close and lunch

Keynote speaker

• Stephen Johnson
  Head of Long Term Conditions, Department of Health 

Speakers

• Kevin Doughty
  Consultant and Deputy Director, Centre for Useable Home Technology
• Adrienne Lucas
  Regional Assistive Technology Development Manager, North Yorkshire County Council
• Dave Miles
  Assistive Technology and Telecare Lead, Nottingham City Council
• Professor Stan Newman
  Centre Director and Professor of Health Psychology, UCL Division of Research Strategy, University College London
• Sally Parker
  Telehealth Lead, NHS Nottingham City
• Hazel Price
  Programme Manager, Kent Whole Systems Demonstrator Project
• Gary Raynor
  Telecare Services Development Manager, Essex County Council
• Dr Justin Whatling
  Chief Clinical Officer, BT Health

• chief executives and directors of primary care trusts
• commissioners of services
• directors of social services
• medical directors
• nurses
• GPs
• community matrons
• health professionals interested in the use of technology in health care
• voluntary sector providers working with people with long-term conditions
• independent sector providers working with people with long-term conditions
• regulators, professional bodies and other policy-makers