Now on bbc news, its time to click. This week x raying remotely. Drinking virtually. And exercising. Like a crazy person. Victory hello, you. Hope youre doing 0k. Laras on the end of this line, youre looking well, mate how have you been . Hows the first week of not quite so lockdown lockdown been . It has been good being able to go out and do more exercise. I did 30,000 steps yesterday. Wow, is that good . I have no idea, no one has ever explained this step business to me. But talking of health, another issue that has been happening over the past couple of months is that when people have needed to go to the doctor or hospital, they have been nervous about either catching the virus or playing their part in overwhelming health systems. So that has meant in some cases, that people have missed urgent care that they really needed. Sojen copestake has been to harrogate District Hospital and a gp surgery in london to find out how staff has been trying to see more patients remotely where they can. When coronavirus hit the uk we saw hospitals being rapidly set up to take more patients and even new ones were built. But in the past month admissions to hospital Emergency Rooms have dropped to the lowest point since records began. Many hospitals are seeing a decline in the number of patients coming in for Emergency Care or scheduled appointments due to the coronavirus. But technology is enabling safe social distancing while also ensuring that important issues arent missed. Finding ways to quickly adapt nhs system to remotely check on patients with acute or continuing illnesses has been an urgent task. We have been shown some of the ways doctors are working to carry on seeing patients without physically seeing them. Something as simple as sending an image on a phone is incredibly complex for the nhs. There are rules surrounding patient data that make it difficult to share scans, even between hospitals and doctors. But with coronavirus doctors had to quickly find ways around this to enable them to work from home. When covid occurred the approach to the deployment changed. The nhs has a number of challenges around governance arrangements, they have a lot of Sensitive Information and sometimes that can be a barrier to deploying technology in the nhs. It was a very pragmatic approach taken by the guys across this region than to make sure that those final remaining steps were accelerated. The yorkshire imaging collaborative were already working with Agfa Healthcare on ways to share x rays and scans among six hospitals using the Xero Exchange network browser. But now the system is entirely accessible from home, meaning doctors can consult on radical patient care including for cancer from their living rooms, with no ppe required a no risk of spreading the virus. Everything has escalated, over the last month i have really integrated it into my house so i can work almost exactly as i do at the hospital. All the data regarding the patient is hospital servers which are all very secure, there is high level encryption, i have to use a special vpn network to access it, as soon as i log off there is nothing on my computer to identify that patient, or any images remaining whatsoever, so if i had my computer stolen there is no data on there, the only potential risk is when people come around sticking cameras through my window and see what is on the screen. Gps are also finding new ways to see patients remotely. We are all now familiar with apps like gp at hand and push doctor which allow you to see a doctor by video call on your mobile. The medicspot takes things further. These se machines are used in 318 pharmacies and and 86 nhs care homes and gp surgeries, including dr yasmin razaks clinic in west london. It moves beyond the simple video call with a doctor by giving the Patient Access to a Blood Pressure monitor, pulse oximeter. Did you get a reading . Stethoscope. Contactless thermometer. And even a light check their ear, nose and throat. 0bviously were doing everything remotely and digitally as much as possible for patient safety, but there are times we really do need to examine our patients. And so it gives us also that safety aspect that we can listen to the heart and lungs, look inside the throat and ear and make a proper diagnostic assessment rather than just rely on a conversation over the phone or a remote video. The system cuts down on the use of vital ppe as the doctor does not need to wear it and change for each consultation. This is very helpful as at this surgery, ppe is in short supply. While we were filming, a volunteer from a 3d Printing Charity dropped off a donation. This is a face shield, and these are 3d printed, the black part has been 3d printed by somebody, and then we have cut the visor and attach the elastic and we are disturbing them to Frontline Health workers. It turns out there is a distributed manufacturing capacity across the uk to make 140,000 so far. We have a need and it is wonderful that you have come to support us because unfortunately as we were saying, through normal procurement lines we cant actually access ppe, and so gps are having to do their best to find it from everywhere available to support their staff. I think it is amazing that you have come and helped us, i am really, really grateful. New apps are also allowing patients and doctors to interact remotely. Silo allows doctors to communicate with enhanced security, allowing them to annotate photographs and blur patient records so they dont have to meet in person. While zesty helps patients access their medical records, book appointments and even attend consultations online. We are often guilty about being slower to adopt technologies in health, but sometimes it takes a crisis like this to come out with a positive change, and i think its really shown us that the benefits of adopting remote technologies to deliver healthcare, and we wont be going back. That was fascinating, and jenjoins us now, hey mate. Hi, spen. It looks like the Health Service could be permanently changed by this, is that right . Certainly, i mean all the doctors we spoke to said that if there was one positive thing that would come out of this pandemic, was the acceptance and advancement of Remote Working and remote technology. After i filmed that bit with the medicspot i was really surprised to come home and find a text message from my local gp surgery asking me to buy all of those instruments, saying if you want you can have a Blood Pressure monitor, wireless scales, a thermometer for your house and a pulse oximeter that would really help them to work remotely with me. They said there was absolutely no obligation to do so, but it would be useful. And this is notjust about doctors consulting with patients remotely, is it . This is about doctors being able to collaborate with other doctors remotely too. Indeed, this is one of the other things we heard from the doctors, is how surprised they were and how happy to use tools like microsoft teams, especially for things like multidisciplinary meetings where you would have doctors being drawn in even potentially from different parts of the country to offer their expertise on a particular patients case. 0kjen, thank you for doing that, stay safe, stay well and we will see you soon. Hello and welcome to the week in tech. It was the week that Sirjames Dyson admitted that his scrapped electric car project has cost £500 million of his own money. But before you start planning a whip round for the vacuum cleaner mogul, this week he also ranked number one of the sunday times uk rich list with a fortune of £16. 2 billion. So it has not exactly put him in the poorhouse. Lots of unmanned air vehicle news now. A Company Called everdrone has begun delivering automated defibrillators via autonomous drones to scenes of cardiac arrest in sweden. It is part of a trial to see if they can get the kit to people in need as far as possible. Canadian startup flash forest is using drones to fire seedpods into the ground on land outside toronto previously scarred by forest fires. The company has its drones can plant much faster than human beings. It was also the week that games publisher ubisoft took apple and google to court. Its are suing over a mobile game called area f2 which has been sold by both companies app stores, ubisoft says the game is a near carbon copy of its rainbow six siege. Unsurprisingly area f2s developers, ejoy, are also being sued. And finally, in this weeks edition of boston dynamics robot dog does stuff real canines can, rocos, a new zealand based Robot Company has demonstrated how the doggy droid could be used to herd sheep. It is useful, but is he a cute good boy . No, i dont think he is. Hey guys it is after work on a friday. And i am enjoying a virtual pub crawl with a few mates. Playing different games depending on what pub we go to next. Its an attempt to try and create that friday feeling you get down at your local. And these kind of video calls have been pretty popular since pubs were shut as part of the uk lockdown. Once the awkwardness of organising a massive video call is broken, people can get together from all over to enjoy a catch up. As pubs battle for survival, some are recognising they can use the Virtual World in order to keep hold of customers and maybe even attract new ones. Brewery and pub chain brewdog had taken a different approach, hosting cookery and art classes, as well as tours of the distillery. Former pub ownerjay flynn has taken the popular pub quiz has gone online. His most recent live streamed quiz reached over 182,000 viewers on youtube, smashing a world record. And after starting to host virtual pub sessions, the british naturism 0rganisation has said they have more members joining up in the past two months any other time in history. And one pub in ireland has really gone above and beyond. The mckeevers bar uses a drone to fly bottles of beer to its local regulars, and for free. Pub owner Avril Mckeever told us that this was their way of giving back to the community. And if you cant get yourself to your favourite pub then why not just. Build it yourself . Tristan cross recreated his local pub in virtual reality. He even animated a chat between him and his mates. It is not quite finished yet, and tristan wants to add a few features like pulling your own point of playing on a quiz machine. So through creativity and dedication, pub culture is being kept alive during the pandemic. However. Its not all fun and games. Drinking is a problem for some. Even before lockdown began. Recent research by alcohol change uk suggests that 35 of people are drinking less, however 21 say they are drinking more during the pandemic. And that could be in part to a new kind of social pressure that is brought about by video calls. People are still very much wanting a glass in their hand and wanting that glass to be visible. Why are they doing that . That drink signifies adult socialising, or relaxed adult. So there is something about the visibility, something about the tech of being able to see each other that means we feel encouraged to have that glass, to show the same symbol. What is really important is that a lot of people dont want to be drinking on those calls, or are nondrinkers, they are people who have recovered from a drinking problem, it is really, really important that we are not excluding those people, not deliberately but i think subtly we can exclude. Those with a drinking problem could struggle with this new social norm. And many vital support services are on hold or unable to conduct face to face meetings. So what help can people get . Change grow live specialises in helping those with Substance Abuse issues. And while they have not been able to see people face to face, they are one organisation using video calls to be there for those in need. Although it has been a bit of a hurdle and been very new to us and very different to our day to day working, we found a lot of the clients have really benefited from it. Also for people that maybe wouldnt have been able to come out of their comfort zone to a group, because of maybe anxiety. And one of those people is shaun, who is seeing these sessions as a lifesaver. I was using alcohol to make everything quieter, i had a few hospital visits through the self harm, through not really wanting to be here anymore, if im honest. Sighs i have not dealt with the lockdown very well. The lockdown all of a sudden came about, i lost my Mental Health support in person. Drinking definitely was affected a few times by the lockdown, i felt like i needed to have a drink to take away, again, take away the feeling of the raised anxiety. The zoom meetings we have been having are so good. Youre in the comfort of your own home. You know, i can see every person that is talking. Some of the positives are that you dont have to show your face. You can just talk. People will learn a lot more about me through zoom because i am less nervous to talk to people on video, you see, than i am to do it in real life. But i definitely think that i would like to see it post pandemic, definitely. The lockdown has put severe stress on us all. And for people in recovery, the loss of connection is huge, and this could be a triggering time. However, virtual counselling could make it easierfor those in need of help, now and in the future. That was 0mar, and if youve been affected by any of the issues in that report, then please do know that help is available and you can