Exploring local services and pathways to access technology for health and care in South Yorkshire
In 2023 the South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board commissioned work to explore the local pathways and services that support and provide electronic assistive technology for people who have health and care needs. This work, led by Zoë Clarke made recommendations around:
- Workforce development – embedding technical leads at all levels in each
organisation or service-level provider to help establish the skills and
knowledge of independence enhancing technologies that are required to
support more equitable access to EAT. - A regional equipment supply service – to support local services to be able to
improve the specificity of their assessment and provide opportunities to
people to experience EAT equipment that is currently unavailable, and therefore ‘unknown’. - System-wide messaging about technology for independent control – to ensure people working across the system will benefit from regular and contemporary messaging about the technology to enhance independent control that is available in the region, and how it can be accessed.
The initial report from this project is available on our website: Access to Electronic Assistive Technologies in South Yorkshire Report