We worked with a charity that provides palliative care and receives an important part of its funding from local commissioners.  It is understood that the charity’s services provide a substitute for health and social care services which otherwise would be used by these patients and their carers. 

One way of reducing the number of hospital visits that patients with chronic conditions have to make is the use of telemedicine. Telemedicine and telehealth are two terms that are sometimes used without much differentiation between them.

The numbers of children who survive cancer has been increasing dramatically over recent decades. The standard of care has been for these cases to be followed up for very long periods, sometimes for their lifetime.