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This project is designed to develop e-health services on Alston Moor.

• Use video links, to aid nurses in the diagnosis and treatment of minor injuries over a 24-hour period by linking Alston to a centre manned by a doctor or specialist nurse thus avoiding a trip to an acute hospital.
• Enable delivery of treatment and care closer to home to keep service users at home and closer to their families.
• Use other e-health devices in an innovative way to enable health and social care professionals to monitor, evaluate, assess, diagnose and treat and support people in their home and / or local community hospital. For example:
• Providing set top boxes which will provide reminders and allow people to book GP appointments and arrange repeat prescriptions through their TV.
• Using equipment that will enable service uses to have their chronic diseases monitored from their home
• Use of alarm systems that could be linked to control centres

Use e-health to reduce the cost of providing services and enable resources to be used more effectively to improve care and to meet the needs of service uses in our community.

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