“Dr James Ferguson, the lead clinician at the Scottish Centre for Telehealth, has a theory as to why England has not developed telehealth to its full potential: south of the border, money is used as the justification.
“Generally what happens is people then try to use the money driver to do what they did before, but try to do it more effectively and create extra capacity,” he says. “When really the trick is to model and push them to be implemented as the normal delivery, as opposed to just a little bit of an add on – which is what nearly all clinicians regard telehealth and telehealth solutions as.”
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Sade Laja, Guardian Professional, 13 April 2011
