Welcome to Alston Healthcare

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 community hospitals to a doctor or specialist nurse, avoiding unnecessary travel.
• Enable delivery of treatment and care closer to home to allow service users to stay 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:
• Alston residents with Sky TV can now  book GP appointments and arrange repeat prescriptions through their TV (see what it looks like by clicking here) and see it on your TV by following these instructions.
• Using equipment that will enable service uses to have their chronic diseases monitored from their home.
• 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.
• Have a fit for purpose professional and business approach to developing services on Alston Moor.
• Share the innovative approaches we develop across Cumbria.