Housing LIN webinar to address housing and care providers regarding the digital switchover
Housing LIN (Learning and Improvement Network), an organisations which brings together housing, health and social care professionals in England, Wales, and Scotland, will host a webinar for healthcare professionals discussing how to address the digital switchover, which will take place by the end of 2025.
Many housing and care providers are poorly placed in planning for the forthcoming change and the implications it will have on the way the specialist housing sector manages its existing stock, and Housing LIN wants managers in the sector to consider the investment decisions they need to make ahead of going from analogue to digital.
Housing LIN will hold the ‘HAPPI Hour session’ on Tuesday 3 October 2023 from 4-5pm to share some of the emerging lessons from the Dunhill Medical Trust-funded TAPPI project, jointly managed by the Housing LIN and TEC Services Association (TSA).
With the TAPPI project putting co-production at its heart, the session will explore the work by TAPPI pilot site Bield Housing Association in Scotland and partner Anthropos.
It will consider research at the University of Portsmouth on Ambient Assisted Living, and with the digital switchover in mind and greater integration of services across local health and care ICS economies, how this can ensure improved utilisation of technology-enabled care at home.
The session will be introduced by Sally Taylor-Ridgway, Communications and Membership Officer, Host, Housing LIN, followed by a welcome and chair’s introduction by Jerome Billeter, Corporate Business Manager, Housing LIN and Nathan Downing, Director of Membership & Consultancy Services, TEC Services Association.
Other speakers include Paul Berney, Chief Commercial Officer at Anthropos and Gary Baillie, TAPPI Programme & BR24 Service Manager at Bield Housing and Care, and Richard Curry, Senior Research Fellow, Department of Computing, University of Portsmouth, before closing with an audience Q&A session.
The Local Government Association, which represents councils, has warned that criminals are exploiting the analogue to digital switchover to scam vulnerable residents who use telecare monitoring devices into giving out personal information such as bank details.
