Salon Showcase recording with Dr Maria Drummond and guest host Dr Angela Carter.

Openreach says the old copper phone network shuts on Jan. 31, 2027, with no further delay. About a million lines still need moving. Here's what to check.

With nearly 300,000 virtual encounters in a year, the cancer center is testing how telemedicine can expand specialist access without compromising hands-on care.

The Telecare Sensors Market was valued at USD 4.2 billion in 2025 and is poised to grow from USD 4.

The Telecare Sensors Market was valued at USD 4.2 billion in 2025 and is poised to grow from USD 4.

Spain's Ley 4/2026 rewrites Article 22 of its 2006 dependency law. It gives people formally assessed as needing help with daily life a legal right to telecare.

Before the landline changes, a gentle check could matter Traditional landlines are moving to digital services. A calm, early check can help protect telecare, alarms and emergency contact.

Respond to telecare alarms, support vulnerable residents, assess situations and arrange assistance when needed Flexibility is essential to work shifts across our 247, 365-day service, including nights, weekends and bank holidays Contract Type: Casual / Seasonal / Bank / Permanently Variable hours | Working Pattern: As and when required | Salary: Grade 3 (SCP 7 - 11) £27,274 - £29,071 - pro rata | Advert End Date: 04/11/2026 23:59 | 

Background: While telecare has considerable potential to improve home care services, benefit older adults, and support informal caregivers, its adoption remains limited. There is also a notable gap in empirical research on the factors that influence informal caregivers’ behavioral intention to use telecare. In particular, existing theoretical acceptance models are insufficiently comprehensive, as they do not specifically address informal caregivers of older adults and have largely overlooked the psychosocial outcomes of engaging with telecare. Objective: This study examined the behavioral intention of Slovenian informal caregivers of older adults to use telecare, focusing on the preuse stage of technology acceptance, by integrating the perceived psychosocial outcomes of telecare engagement (peace of mind, reduced anxiety, sense of safety, and perceived connectedness with the care recipient) into the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) model. Methods: The study applied nested ordinary least squares regression analysis to survey data collected in 2021 in Slovenia from informal caregivers of older adults, all of whom were aged 40 years or older. Of 612 respondents in the dataset, 558 were retained after excluding current or former users of care-related assistive technologies; the regression analyses were based on the 526 participants with complete data on all model variables. Results: The regression analysis used 3 nested models to examine predictors of the intention of informal caregivers of older adults to use telecare. The first model, which included only background variables (burden of care, financial coping, and caregiver sociodemographic characteristics), had limited explanatory power (²=0.03), with financial coping as the only significant predictor (β=−0.14, =.005). Adding UTAUT predictors significantly improved the model’s fit (²=0.49). Performance expectancy (β=0.52,

£42,228.00 - £48,633.00 per annually; Closing date: 02/11/2026

£37,702.00 - £38,779.00 per annually; Closing date: 02/11/2026

The council said it needed to make cuts and make the service consistent across Northumberland

Northumberland councillors have agreed to raise telecare charges by £2 a week to £8.50 and scrap the warden service to make the system fairer and cost neutral.

The council said it needed to make cuts and make the service consistent across Northumberland

Telephone exchanges serving Bangor-on-Dee and Overton are among the latest to be named by Openreach in its programme to stop selling copper-based phone and broadband services. The two Wrexham County Borough exchanges are part of a batch of 112 announced this week, covering 619,724 premises across the UK. What stop sell means Openreach said stop sell is triggered when 75% of premises served by an exchange can get Full Fibre broadband. From that point, providers such as BT, Sky and Vodafone can no longer sell new copper-based broadband and phone services in those areas.

Sunderland Care and Support are looking to recruit a Telecare Responder to an exciting and established service Contract Type: Permanent | Working Pattern: Full time | Salary: £27,274 - £29,071 (Pro rata if working less than 37 hours per week) (+15% Shift Allowance) | Advert End Date: 25/10/2026 23:59 | 

I fear that when January comes, supported housing telecare systems won’t work, leaving millions of people at risk, writes lived experience advisor Debra Edwards

I fear that when January comes, supported housing telecare systems won’t work, leaving millions of people at risk, writes lived experience advisor Debra Edwards