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Whole Systems Demonstrator Trial

A whole lot better

With an ageing population, growing numbers of people with long-term conditions, a rise in complex health needs and increasing pressures on health and social care services, Newham needs to find new ways to help people manage their own health, within their own homes.

Through the introduction of the Whole System Demonstrator (WSD) Trial , Newham is playing its part in coming up with viable alternatives in the management of long-term conditions via the exciting possibilities opened up by assistive technologies: TeleCare and TeleHealth.
 
The aim of the WSD Trial is not only to help the Newham population live more independently for longer, but just as importantly to help reduce:
  • Emergency hospital admissions
  • Accident and emergency attendances
  • Numbers admitted to care and nursing homes
The WSD will contribute to a more community-based care, a more person-centred, responsive and adaptable service rather than the ‘one size fits all’ approach of reactive care.
 
Home monitoring systems for self-managed care are already proving beneficial for users and are also helping to relieve a lot of the pressures facing carers.

The WSD Trial

The Newham Whole System Demonstrator (WSD) trial is a two year research project funded by The Department of Health to find out how technology can help people manage their own health while maintaining their independence.
 
Newham Council and Primary Care Trust were successful in their bid to become one of three sites to take part in the trial – the other two being Kent and Cornwall. Around 2,000 local people are taking part and have the opportunity of using either the TeleCare or TeleHealth systems in their homes.
 

TeleCare

This system is aimed at people who need the support of Social Services to keep living on their own, such as those with physical disabilities, the frail and elderly or those suffering from epilepsy.
 

TeleHealth

This system is aimed at people with long term health conditions such as diabetes, heart failure and/or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
 

The Purpose of the Trial

The results of the trial will help us to understand to what extent the integration between Health and Social Care and these technologies can:
  • promote people's long term health and independence
  • improve quality of life for people and their carers
  • improve the working lives of health and social care professionals
  • provide an evidence base for more cost effective and clinically effective ways of managing long term conditions