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[Name] Clare Skidmore Telecare Project Manager, Kent County Council [Topic] Telehealth and Telecare: Towards Service Integration and User Empowerment A brief history of Telehealth and Telecare in Kent including policy backgroun Overall benefits of both - for users and patients, staff and the whole system Key challenges and complexities Particular challenges relating to data generation and management Case studies Whole system demonstrator in Kent Our vision for the future [Slot] 21 [Bio] 
Clare Skidmore trained in Social Work at York University and subsequently worked in the voluntary sector supporting people with learning difficulies to develop their self-advocacy skills. Since 2004, Clare has been Telecare Project Manager at Kent County Council, and is now also the Telecare lead for KCC on the Whole System Demonstrator programme. Since November 2006 Clare has also worked part-time at the Care Services Improvement Partnership as Programme Manager for the 2007/8 round of the DH Extra Care Housing Fund. Clare will be speaking in her Kent County Council capacity.
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