The Analogue to Digital Switchover: Housing Cannot Afford to Drift
With analogue lines due to be withdrawn across the UK by 2027, the sector is approaching a hard deadline. The question is no longer whether migration will happen. It is whether housing providers will lead it — or be forced to react to it.
Personalised Care at Scale: Turning Policy into Practice
Personalised care has long been a policy ambition within UK health and social care. Yet despite legislative backing and national strategy, it remains uneven in practice. In this blog, Mark Hindle explores how digital technology, data integration and neighbourhood-based care models can finally move personalisation from aspiration to everyday reality — and why prevention must become the organising principle of care.
How are Hinckley and Bosworth preparing their supported living properties for the digital transition?
Change for good The digital transition is affecting all group living and community alarm services in the UK. Clive Tayor, Housing Assets and Support Teams Manager shares Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council’s approach to preparing for the change. Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council has 1,270 supported properties across 11 sheltered housing complexes, all using old Piper Haven alarms. We also […]
How did City Wide Care Alarms prepare for the digital transition with Lifeline Digital?
City Wide Care Alarms in Sheffield currently has over 8,000 connections, with around 5,000 of these being Lifeline units in individual homes, and the remainder in supported living environments. Steve Cullen, Team Manager at City Wide Care Alarms, tells us how they’ve worked with Tunstall to prepare for the UK’s move to a digital communications […]
Newydd Housing Association and the transition to digital
New tech for Newyd Newydd Housing Association is a charitable housing association that offers 3,000 affordable homes for rent and sale to people in mid and south Wales. Alan Evans, Housing Manager, tell us how they approached making sure tenants in their independent living schemes will remain safe as the communications network in the area […]
The benefits of moving to digital telecare solutions
Driving digital: how providers are realising the benefits of digital telecare solutions Angus Honeysett, Head of Global Market Insight at Tunstall Healthcare looks at how various UK organisations are successfully moving to digital telecare solutions and the benefits that can be delivered. The move from analogue to digital systems is at a pivotal time. Providers […]
Creative collaboration – technology for supported housing
There is a lack of appropriate housing for people with a learning disability or autism who may have behaviours that challenge. Torus, the North West’s largest affordable housing provider worked with St Helens Borough Council (SHBC) and Tunstall Healthcare to transform an unused care home into eight modern, personalised and technology-enabled apartments. Sarah Houghton-Grimshaw, Supported […]