Digital Telecare for Scottish Local Government has launched a brand-new National Briefing Document to raise awareness of the urgency and importance of the transition to digital telecare.
As early as 2023, it will no longer be possible for citizens to purchase an analogue phone service from many of the main telecommunication providers. In addition, all telecommunication providers expect to have fully completed migration of their analogue networks over to a digital equivalent by 2025. Telecommunication suppliers are well on their journey to making this switch to ‘IP networks’ and will not wait for telecare service providers to fully prepare themselves. They will be left behind and as a result, service users’ will be at risk of receiving an unreliable service.
Scotland’s telecare service providers including health and social care partnerships, housing associations and many other organisations who use analogue connectivity to deliver their services, will need to upgrade, inevitably. Some may have already started their transition journey however those who have now, should now be starting to feel the pressure to do so.
Previously, there was major uncertainty of what the journey to digital telecare would look like and there was a need for a programme which would produce a roadmap and deliver a collaborative approach in a coordinated and timely manner. Digital Telecare for Scottish Local Government was established in early 2017 to plug this gap by working with telecare service providers to identify their requirements to ensure a smooth, safe transition to a digital service for those in receipt of telecare in their home environments.
Today, Digital Telecare for Scottish Local Government has published a National Briefing Document to raise awareness of the urgency and importance of the switch from analogue to digital telecare for all telecare service providers.
The document provides:
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Telecare service providers must take urgent action and follow the outlined information in the National Briefing Document to ensure they transition to a digital telecare safely, securely, and prior to the analogue network switch off.
If you have any questions relating to the National Briefing Document, please get in touch.