Publications

The challenges for commissioners and providers of telecare and telehealth have never been so great, but there are some exciting fresh opportunities to be considered.

Recently published trials on telehealth monitoring in heart failure

Contributed to by key health sector figures and commentators, this publication provides information on key health policy agenda priorities and how they can be addressed and advanced in the coming years.

Note prepared for the Health Select Committee Inquiry into public expenditure, giving an estimate of the future social care funding gap following the Spending Review 2010.

This paper offers a snapshot of health professionals' views and raises key issues for further debate, as part of our work on the quality of general practice in England.

We look at three types of technology: telephone, internet and videoconferencing, and consider how they could be used for or by children and adolescents across a variety of conditions.

Mike Clark describes the programme, set up by Kent County Council, to help 250 people with long-term conditions to live independently using telehealth.

This paper, the first in a series of WSDAN briefing papers, looks at how telehealth and telecare innovations are being used in health and social care.

The King's Fund and Doctors.net.uk have commissioned a survey to find out how doctors feel about the plans set out in the coalition government's health White Paper.

For adult social care, the Spending Review settlement is about as good as it could get. It promises allocates £2 billion a year of additional funding by 2014-15 to support social care, £1b of which sits within the NHS.

This paper is a formal response to the Department of Health's public consultation on Commissioning for patients, that sets out information on the intended arrangements for GP commissioning and the NHS Commissioning Board's role in supporting consortia and holding them to account.

This is part of our response to the government's consultation on the White Paper. It sets out our view on the need for regulation, the general scope and nature of that regulation and addresses the changes to the powers and freedoms proposed for NHS trusts.

Find out why we are not convinced that the health and wellbeing boards will be effective in co-ordinating and integrating commissioning of health and social care services in our response to the consultation on local democratic legitimacy in health.

Many of the changes set out in the government's White Paper have the potential to help to improve performance. However, there are significant risks in making these changes when financial pressures on the NHS are increasing.

This report captures the content of a conference held by The King's Fund to assess the involvement of the NHS in the Total Place programme.

This article focuses on evidence about older people’s perceptions and use of telecare, telehealth and telemedicine interventions.

Irrespective of Unison’s request for a review of the government's NHS reform plans, ministers will have to fight on several fronts to implement the health White Paper.

A recent study commissioned by Ofcom examined the long-term requirements of key sectors for communication services in the United Kingdom.

In July 2010, WSDAN News reported on the publication of the results of a recent UK randomised control trial on telemonitoring and self-management in the control of hypertension.

Our report provides practical advice to those seeking to influence GP referrals. It draws on the current literature and new qualitative and quantitative research.