This is very timely given the current digital health and care agenda. The end-to-end Code can help organisations prepare for engaging with TECS, as well as providing a quality framework for procurement and provision of services, simplifying the commissioning and tendering of services.
It can also help with assessing, progressing and accelerating organisational readiness. This quality benchmark will also support the wider roll out and scaling up of TECS in the most safe and effective way. Digital health and care technologies are becoming more popular in the health, housing and care sectors, with sensors, smartphones, wearables, trackers and apps available to support health, care and wellbeing.
This new Code brings together all these technologies in one truly integrated framework. Uniquely, this Code, which sets out standards covering every aspect of services, offers an end-to-end and whole-system approach, ranging from the early planning stages through to post-implementation of services. It can be looked at as a value-chain solution that interlinks those responsible for planning and commissioning services with service users, through the activities of clinicians and providers.
Following the Code enables the longstanding barriers to adopting TECS more widely to be overcome, ensuring projects and initiatives are delivered with the best possible outcomes, with the ability to measure their success and embed sustainability.
It is important to note that CECOPS is a completely independent organisation (a social enterprise), having no affiliations with suppliers or service providers, which avoids any potential conflicts of interest with regards to pushing the Code.
More details about the Code here: http://www.cecops.org.uk/code-of-practice-scheme/scope-of-technology-enabled-care-services-code/
Please note, the Code is free of charge to organisations working with CECOPS.
To find out how you can use the Code in your organisation, please get in touch with CECOPS. E: [email protected] or T: 01494 863398 ‘…this is more than a Code of Practice; it is a map, a guide and a chaperone. It is thought provoking and a source of inspiration.’