Tunstall has added the Just Checking product range to its portfolio of market leading telehealthcare solutions, providing health and social care professionals with a flexible and cost-effective means of social care assessment. The system helps to ensure that care packages are relevant and cost effective, and can monitor a person’s progress when supported by a reablement programme.
Just Checking is a web-based activity monitoring system which uses movement sensors to generate a 24 hour chart of activity of a person living alone in their own home. More than half of UK councils with social services responsibilities currently use Just Checking for assessment and planning care, for people leaving hospital and for those with dementia.
Tunstall Sales Director Richard Rawcliffe says, "Just Checking is a valuable addition to our growing range of telehealthcare solutions, better supporting our customers' short term assessments and informing longer term packages of care, identifying where telecare can offer ongoing support. Government policy is increasingly focusing on reablement, preventing re-admission to hospital and delaying the need for long term residential care. Assessment forms a vital part of delivering the services needed to support people in their own homes, and Just Checking offers a quick to install and cost effective means of assessing a person's ability to manage in the community."
Celia Price, Just Checking Marketing Director says "This partnership means Just Checking will be introduced to a greater number of health and social care organisations, where there is enormous pressure to make finite budgets work harder. A better understanding of a person's capabilities, when they are living alone, allows practitioners to target care where it is needed, and to encourage independence when it is not."
Tunstall will provide first line support, however Just Checking will retain management of its associated web-service and helpline, and will continue to provide product support.
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Tunstall Healthcare Group is the market-leading provider of telehealthcare solutions, with over 2.5 million users globally. Tunstall's solutions support older people and those with long-term needs, to live independently, by effectively managing their health and well-being. Tunstall provides technology, expertise and advice to millions of people enabling them to lead independent more fulfilling lives.