Bringing care closer to home with telehealth

BBC News Online has reported on the latest telehealth results from the Whole System Demonstrator site in Cornwall, where Tunstall has been heavily involved in providing telehealth technology to patients with long-term conditions.

Patients across Cornwall have been provided with wireless personal telehealth monitors to enable them to manage their conditions remotely, saving them unnecessary visits to their GP. The telehealth technology has also been provided to residents on the remote Isle of Scilly, where patients living in isolated communities can be monitored without having to travel long distances for routine checkups.

Dave Tyas, telehealth manager for Peninsula Community Health in Cornwall said: “Telehealth is about bringing care closer to home. It is evolving all the time, and we are continually evaluating things. This technology doesn’t replace face-to-face visits, in fact we are actually contacting them more regularly but just in a different way.

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