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Bield Housing and Care is celebrating a triple award win for its progress in transitioning its homes towards digital telecare. The housing and care specialist received the Gold Level Two Digital Telecare Implementation Award in recognition of its rollout of live digital telecare to 82% of
Inverclyde Health and Social Care Partnership (HSCP) has been recognised for its progress in transitioning from analogue to digital telecare.
Topics Falkirk Council has set up an end-to-end telecare service, saying it is first local authority in Scotland to do so. It has worked with the Falkirk Health and Social Care Partnership to replace its analogue system of Mobile Emergency Care Service (MECS) alarms with pre-programmed digital units under its Analogue to Digital Telecare project. The council said it has so far provided about 4,000 of the new units and aims to install another 3,200 by the end of the year. This comes in advance of the planned switch-off of analogue phone lines by 2025. Before full implementation the technology...