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Belfast Trust says no plans to stop out-of-hours GP practice
The Trust had been reviewing the proposal of stopping out-of-hours services in South and East Belfast
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The Belfast Trust has said that it has no plans to stop the out-of-hours GP service in South and East Belfast.
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Falkirk Council has set up an end-to-end telecare service, saying it is first local authority in Scotland to do so.
It has worked with the Falkirk Health and Social Care Partnership to replace its analogue system of Mobile Emergency Care Service (MECS) alarms with pre-programmed digital units under its Analogue to Digital Telecare project.
The council said it has so far provided about 4,000 of the new units and aims to install another 3,200 by the end of the year.
This comes in advance of the planned switch-off of analogue phone lines by 2025.
Before full implementation the technology was tested on a group of low risk clients.
Falkirk first Scottish council to safeguard digital telecare
Falkirk Council has become the first local authority in Scotland to launch an end-to-end digital telecare service.
The council has safeguarded its life and limb Mobile Emergency Care Service (MECS) four years before telecommunication providers switch off all analogue lines in the UK.
The project has seen 4,000 analogue MECS alarm systems in people’s homes replaced with pre-programmed digital-ready ones. The remaining 3,200 MECS service users will be transferred to the fully digital service by the end of the year.
The move has earned the council and the Falkirk Health and Social Care Partnership a Gold Level 1 Digital Telecare Implementation Award.
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