Tag / Health and social care
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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…
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L5G at Connected Britain 2022
Liverpool 5G was well represented at Connected Britain 2022, which is described as ‘The UK’s most important connectivity event’. The event brings together leaders from across the public and private sector who shape Britain’s digital future, and provides a place to understand the technology, regulation, and investment environment for the rollout of next generation networks…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Small Cells World Summit, London, May 2022
Project Lead Ann Williams, Health and Social Care Authority, has been invited to speak at the Small Cells World Summit in London on Tuesday 24th May. Representing the Liverpool 5G project, Liverpool City Council and the UK5G Advisory Board, Ann will be speaking at the “Enterprise and Industry Requirements” session along with Simon Fletcher of…
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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…
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Docobo on Virtual Wards & the Liverpool 5G Project
Liverpool 5G project partners Docobo interviewed Managing Director Adrian Flowerday about Virtual Wards, and the work they’ve done in Liverpool. You can read Adrian’s comments on the need for virtual wards – and clarification on what a virtual ward actually is – in their article here.
