techUK推出CareTech五点计划

September 2023 Contents 04 Introduction08 Chapter 1Citizen-focused outcomes: How can we use tech tosupport independence?11 Chapter 2Investment: How should government better invest inservices and staff?16 Chapter 3Collaboration: How can technology support the integrationof health, care and other sectors to deliver betteroutcomes?20 Chapter 4Data and interoperability: How can we better use data toprovide more effective social care?25 Chapter 5Industry as a partner: How can the tech industry supportchange?29 References32 Foreword Clive Gilbert,Policy Connect, Senior Policy and Research Manager,Assistive and Accessible Technology. When I was 15 years old, my life changed. My special needs school referred me to theCommunication Aids Project (CAP), a government programme that provided technology tohelp children and young people with significant communication difficulties (like me) accessthe school curriculum, interact with others and make a successful transition into adulthood. The project brought together services that too often sit in silos. I was sent to a regionalcentre based at Great Ormond Street Hospital, which worked with me, my parents, teachers,social worker, speech and language therapist and occupational therapist to devise a packageof technologies and wraparound support. The centrepiece of my new high-tech set-up was a tablet computer that I could use as a voiceoutput communication device, as well as a standard computer for my A-Level coursework.CAP also asked a medical engineering charity to work with the NHS Wheelchair Service todesign a bespoke wheelchair control system which doubled as a computer mouse. Finally, I was introduced to the NHS Specialised Environmental Controls Service – a nationallycommissioned service staffed by clinical scientists who provide physically disabled peoplewith assistive technologies to help them live more independently at home. The servicesupplied me with an array of technologies that I had never seen before, including a devicewhich for the first time enabled me to change the TV channel, switch on the lights and letfriends in at the front door. I was even given a mechanical page-turner – which proved indispensable for my studies. The moral of this story is that integrated services can have profoundly positive effectson people’s lives. Better coordination can speed up the delivery of services. It can alsofundamentally change the nature of the services that are provided by creating confluences ofprofessions, perspectives and skills that unlock greater creativity, personalisation and choicefor individuals. techUK’s timely Five Point Plan for CareTech is right to highlight the emerging opportunitiesfor Integrated Care Systems to transform the way technology is used to support people to bemore independent – something I have emphasised in my own policy work. One of the key conclusions of this report is that involving different types of expertise –especially from people who draw on care – in conversations about how technology shouldbe used in care and support is a vital corrective to the shortcomings of current practices.Too often services view technology mainly as a way of managing people’s care needs, andoverlook how people can use technology to lead fulfilling lives - even if that means doingthings that others might take for granted such as booking theatre tickets, reading a book ormanaging a team at work. The Communication Aids Project was designed to remind the professionals who wereworking with me that my ability to express myself was not an end in itself, but a passport toa richer and fuller life. In the same way, the promise of Integrated Care Systems for the futureof CareTech is to remind services that patients and care service users are people with theirown unique needs, preferences and aspirations. Foreword Sir David Pearson,Chair, TEC Quality; andformer President of theAssociation of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) and wasalso leader of the COVID-19 Social Care Taskforce. There is now a groundswell of opinion that digital solutions can significantly benefit healthand care in the third decade of the 21st century. People realise that technology helps tomeet additional needs arising from demographic change and the demands this will place onhealth and care services. Digital devices and systems are a way of enabling and joining up services, providing aplatform for preventative, proactive and personalised care and support. Technology can alsoensure that we are anticipating need and risk, and supporting the workforce to address localneed. Most importantly, there is a growing understanding that digital solutions can help thoseof us who need social care to do more of the things we love, and live the lives we want tolead. Although the recognition is there, there is still a long way to go if we want to make this visiona widespread reality. Without a doubt, concerted action is needed from government, national bodies, the NHS,those represen