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Using digital technology to improve care
Patients are using digital technologies at home more often, working with health and social care, to live more independently and improve quality of life.
Research indicates that keeping people out of hospital and helping them live independently for longer to recover in their own homes significantly improves mental and physical health. Patients prefer this approach and it helps with their recovery to be treated in the comfort of their own familiar surroundings.
Bringing together a range of support in a person’s own home prevents unnecessary hospital admission, or helps people return home sooner - whatever home means to them.
In partnership with Oxleas NHS, the Royal Borough of Greenwich and South East London ICS, technology for use at home can provide early intervention, support self-care, help with everyday living activities and ensure people feel safe and supported at home.
The technology will be available to a wide range of people of all ages including those being discharged from hospital, those who are frail and at risk of falls, and people with dementia.
Staff are trained to use and demonstrate new technologies, which have been co-designed by staff and local residents.
Media enquiries
The communications team provides a point of contact for journalists to respond to all media enquiries.
We are happy to help journalists represent the trust accurately, so please do get in touch to ensure your facts and information are up-to-date before publishing your story.
Our media team is responsible for:
- Responding to media queries
- Arranging interviews with our nationally and internationally renowned experts who can talk about some of the trust’s specialist topics
For all media enquiries Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm, please email oxl-tr.communications@nhs.net where a member of the team will review and action your request.
If you have an urgent enquiry outside of office hours or at the weekend, please contact our director on call via the Bracton Centre switchboard on 01322 294300.
Filming and photography requests
We receive documentary, location and broadcast filming requests on a regular basis – we consider all proposals on an individual basis and will try to accommodate proposals where possible, if appropriate.
No photography or filming is permitted without prior arrangement and agreement. Our patients always come first and we have a duty to protect their safety and confidentiality. Anyone found filming or taking photographs on the trust premises without the permission of the trust’s communications team will be asked to leave by the security department and may face prosecution.
Unless agreed otherwise, film crews and photographers must be accompanied by a member of the Communications Team at all times.
Contact: oxl-tr.communications@nhs.net
