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3 Febuary edition of the Telemedicine Reporter International Edition (PDF) for download thanks to US Tele-Medicine. To be emailed when the next is released email their media dept. |
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| The gist is...If you have a serious comment to make anonymously...email it, don't just post it. |
Truly anonymous comments - where the writer is unknown - are not published unless they are unexceptional.
Comments or articles where the authorship is known but are offered for publication anonymously are considered on their merits. (Email Steve or Donna in confidence.) There are some circumstances where it is necessary to be close to a particular situation to be able to throw light on it but to write about it publicly would jeopardise the author's position. In that case, the decision to publish an item anonymously hinges on the question of whether or not it is informed opinion that will add insight to, or might start, a debate on a particular topic.
Unsubstantiated allegations of illegal behaviour or substandard products, for example, would not be posted unless they could be independently verified, in which case we would probably publish them ourselves.
Just because a post, article or comment, etc. is published on Telecare Aware readers cannot and should not infer that the editors agree with the author, anonymous or not.
Steve Hards
Donna Cusano
Editors
steve.hards@telecareaware.com
donna.cusano@telecareaware.com
Throw it away |
| Monday, 08 June 2009 14:09 |
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The problem is that too many people base success of telecare on the number of connections you have, Community Alarm providers bragging on how many telecare users they have at every meeting you go to. It should not be about the numbers and targets it should be about specific pieces of equipment to benefit the users. You have examples of the PT Grant being wasted just to get the number of users up. Examples include Community Alarm Services spending the money on giving every person in sheltered housing a pendant, flood detector, smoke alarms and then claiming they are all Telecare users and recording this as an increase in the use of telecare. The use of the grant in this way seems to be a waste of money as stated above the majority of people will have put the pendant in a draw because they do not need the equipment. Surely the PT grant could have been used a lot better targeting specific equipment mainstream or non mainstream to benefit the end user. The use of the grant to throw equipment out there to be able to brag on numbers of telecare users just leads to people seeing the equipment as a waste of time. Community Alarm providers need a good shake up and the merging of providers has to be continued why does every local authority have to have one? Surely by merging and having local control centers with remote responses the savings could be reinvested into telecare to help those who require telecare and want telecare in their daily lives. Lets not forget the end user and talk about the benefits to specific peoples lives an stop this waste of money on "Oh WE HAVE 1000 TELECARE USERS!!!!" when in fact the majority have had equipment forced on them. |
