Lansley confirmed as speaker at Telehealth Summit on Tuesday

Telehealth will be top of the agenda next week at a conference investigating, promoting and discussing one of the potentially revolutionary areas of healthcare technology.

2020health.org and the Royal College of General Practitioners are jointly hosting the Telehealth Summit 2011 on Tuesday, June 28 at Skinners’ Hall in London.

A spokesman for 2020health.org said: “This event will showcase how telehealth can be used to transform patient care from the consulting room to the community and into the home. The overall objective is to build on the recommendations made in 2020health’s recent acclaimed report ‘Healthcare without walls’, highlighting how improved clinical and financial outcomes in managing long term conditions can be achieved through telehealth-enabled services.”

Speakers include Health Secretary Andrew Lansley, RCGP chair Dr Clare Gerada, Miles Ayling, director of innovation & services improvement at the Department of Health, as well as many leading clinicians including Dr Shahid Ali and Dr Amir Hannan.

Individual sessions will focus on learning from GP Pioneers and securing clinical engagement, identifying how Government can enable uptake of telehealth, redesigning pathways across primary, secondary and social care and into patients’ homes, and hearing the results of the Whole System Demonstrator projects.

Attendance at the Telehealth Summit 2011 is free, but space is restricted and it will be first come, first served. To register contact Gillie Lyons at glyons@rcgp.org.uk or call 0203 188 7412.