Rural Centre of Excellence (RCE)

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This forum is designed to support collaboration, discussion, exchange knowledge and keep up to date with rural health and care innovation. As a valued member of this community your insights and contributions are important to driving meaningful change in Moray.

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Highlights from our Occupational Therapy Community Appointment Day

On Wednesday, 29^th October, the Rural Centre of Excellence for Digital Health & Care Innovation Centre (DHI) in partnership with Health & Social Care Moray (HSCM) hosted an Occupational Therapy Community Appointment Day at Elgin Community Centre.  

The event marks the first step towards an innovative occupational therapy pathway, where individuals currently held on selected OT waiting lists were invited to attend our Community Appointment Day. Individuals had the opportunity to chat 1:1 with Occupational Therapists and trial the online platform AskSARA, to receive help sooner.  

Read more: https://www.dhi-scotland.com/post/community-care-in-action

Recently the Rural Centre of Excellence in partnership with Health and Social Care, hosted our Living Lab 3 Care in Place workshops, bringing together local health and social care staff, third sector services and unpaid carers.  

The workshops centred around the development of Community Connection and the Personal Data Store, digital tools developed through codesign to support older people, and unpaid carers find services more easily Staff and citizens in Moray have been testing the tools over the past year. The work is research in the real world, highlighting the people's day to day challenges.  

People who attended the workshop welcomed the new development stating, “If this had been available a few years ago it would have made an incredible difference to my daughter and I, people are finally being seen.” 

“It’s absolutely amazing that our stories are being heard, we will no longer need to repeat ourselves.” 

It was encouraging to see strong engagement from…

Yesterday at DHI RCE’s Demonstration & Simulation Environment, we proudly hosted our Living Lab 4 Smart Housing Smart Communities workshop, bringing together local health, social care, and housing professionals.

The session centered around the work the RCE and fellow partnerships are doing to develop an innovative technology enabled care pathway through the analogue to digital telecare opportunity, and how this shift from a reactive to proactive and preventative service to support individuals to live safely and independently in their own homes.

It was encouraging to see strong engagement from professionals across the sector, eager to collaborate on improving independent living through technology across Moray.

Thanks to everyone who attended the workshop yesterday!