The short video was made during a past project of a 12 month pilot study of telehealth deployment for people with Chronic Heart Failure. The video includes perspectives from research, development, care delivery and patient experience. Please click here to view the full video.
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A Telehealth implementation toolkit
In an increasingly challenging financial environment, with escalating demand on resources and a desire to continually improve healthcare, policies increasingly emphasise supporting people to self-care, and closer management of people with complex needs. Telehealth has been proposed as one solution that can contribute to these ambitions and increase users’ quality of life. The implementation of telehealth into services is not straightforward, and previous lessons not always […]
‘CACTUS Aphasia Research Group’ CLAHRC SY PPI Workshop, 2nd March 2011, The Source, Sheffield
CACTUS (Cost effectiveness of Computer Assisted Treatment vs Usual Stimulation) is a small scale research project to test whether ongoing therapy, delivered using specially developed software, can help stroke survivors with aphasia improve their speech and language skills. “She’s had her stroke 30 years and she’s never strung a sentence together. It was quite nice […]
Cost Effectiveness of Computer Aphasia Treatment versus Usual Stimulation (CACTUS)
About a third of people who have had a stroke have aphasia, making it difficult to speak, understand, read and write. There is evidence that people can continue to improve their language ability for several years. However, it is difficult to provide continued treatment with the intensity required to support improvement because of limited speech and language therapy resources. Specially developed […]
‘Nothing About Us Without Us’ Patient and Public Involvement Workshop held on 2nd March 2011 at The Source, Sheffield
Involving patients and members of the public in research can be rewarding not only for the individuals, but also for the research and the researcher. CLAHRC SY encourages all our research projects to include consideration of PPI. PPI can be included in a research project at many levels, whether through PPI input into research proposals, […]