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The Government’s flagship telecare scheme to improve social and health care for vulnerable people costs 10 times the usual accepted level for a cost-effective intervention, researchers have found.
A study has shown that providing people with additional telecare costs nearly £300,000 for each quality-adjusted life-year (QALY) gained as a result, compared with the £30,000 threshold that the NHS is usually willing to pay when introducing new interventions.
GP experts said this was further evidence that Government attempts to introduce a ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach to telemonitoring are a ‘waste of money’.
The authors of the latest analysis of the Government’s Whole System Demonstrator programme of trials looking at telehealth and telecare interventions said it showed policy-makers should not view the technology as a ‘magic bullet’.
http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/clinica...tiveness-figure/20007348.article#.U9IuVPldWAg
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Once again the government fails to understand that IT/Technology isn't capable of delivering what some bright spark somewhere says it can
A study has shown that providing people with additional telecare costs nearly £300,000 for each quality-adjusted life-year (QALY) gained as a result, compared with the £30,000 threshold that the NHS is usually willing to pay when introducing new interventions.
GP experts said this was further evidence that Government attempts to introduce a ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach to telemonitoring are a ‘waste of money’.
The authors of the latest analysis of the Government’s Whole System Demonstrator programme of trials looking at telehealth and telecare interventions said it showed policy-makers should not view the technology as a ‘magic bullet’.
http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/clinica...tiveness-figure/20007348.article#.U9IuVPldWAg
(free registration required)
Once again the government fails to understand that IT/Technology isn't capable of delivering what some bright spark somewhere says it can
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