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  • Highlights from the Liverpool 5G Create Project

    The DCMS-funded Liverpool 5G Create: Connecting Health and Social Care project officially came to an end on 30th September 2022, after running for two years. The end of the project does not mean the end of Liverpool 5G – far from it. The team are exploring opportunities to maximise the impact of the network and…

  • Mobile UK Report on the Importance of Connectivity for Adult Social Care

      Mobile UK’s Connected Care Report looks at how mobile connectivity can help councils overcome the challenges of delivering adult social care. The report found that mobile connectivity offered huge potential to aid the delivery of health and social care, with just 40% of social care providers currently being fully digitised. It highlighted how new…

  • Did you miss our Use Case Demonstration Event?

    On 29th June, the Liverpool 5G team hosted a Use Case Demonstration Event at Kensington Community Learning Centre, Liverpool, to demonstrate the use cases being used on the Liverpool 5G network. The team have produced a video of the day to share with those who were unable to make it, take a look below and…

  • L5G Use Case Demonstration Event

    On Wednesday 29th June, the Liverpool 5G project team hosted a Use Case Demonstration event to demonstrate the various use cases being trialled on the Liverpool 5G network. The event was hosted at Kensington Community Learning Centre in the heart of Kensington, Liverpool, which has been a base for the project team throughout the project…

  • MySense Devices Installed in Kensington on L5G Network

    The first MySense devices have been installed in patient’s homes in Kensington, Liverpool, utilising the Liverpool 5G network. MySense addresses the service gap between the rising demand of an ageing population and declining clinical resources. Home visits place a huge demand on healthcare providers and are costly in practitioner time, as well as often being…

  • How Liverpool 5G supports ‘Levelling Up’

    UK5G have published an article looking at how affordable connectivity is key to ‘levelling up’, and how the Liverpool 5G project supports Liverpool’s levelling up ambitions. In today’s digital society, many things we consider basic human rights are becoming unreachable without access to connectivity. The piece asks: is access to affordable connectivity a basic human…

  • Multiple Care Homes LIVE on L5G Network

    Both Millvina House & Brushwood Care Homes, part of the Bloomcare Group, are now connected to and live on the Liverpool 5G network. The care homes are both located outside of the planned project footprint, however, following the success of Rowan Garth Care Village’s connection to the network, Bloomcare asked the team if it would…

  • Liverpool 5G brings ‘Hug Vest’ to Rowan Garth Care Village

    Liverpool 5G has brought the ‘Hug Vest’ use case to Rowan Garth Care Village. The Liverpool 5G team, along with makers CuteCircuit, brought and demonstrated the shirt for care home staff and resident’s family members. Hug Vest is a special shirt worn by a resident in a care home, with haptic technology linked to an…

  • Telehealth Update

    Peter Almond, of Liverpool 5G partners Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust, who is also the Cheshire and Merseyside Remote Monitoring Programme Manager, has sent us an update on their telehealth work: Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust’s Telehealth Team are working in partnership with the Liverpool 5G Create Project on two use cases to improve patients…

  • Telehealth Monitoring successfully tested on Liverpool 5G Network

    The Telehealth Monitoring use case has been successfully tested on the Liverpool 5G Network, following testing by project partners Docobo, at Kensington Community Learning Centre in the heart of the project area. Testing included a Video Consultation Call, which was successfully completed on the Liverpool 5G network, and standard Telehealth tests which transferred data over…