What is TEC?
The Technology Enabled Care (TEC) programme is part of the Scottish Government’s Digital Health and Care Directorate. It is guided by the overarching Digital Health and Care Strategy.
The programme focuses on public facing digital solutions, where outcomes from individuals in home or community settings are improved through the application of technology as an integral part of quality, cost effective care and support to look after more people at home.
Your local TEC Team are based within Ailsa Hospital, Ayr and can be contacted via Telehealthcare@aapct.scot.nhs.uk.
You can also consult the national TEC team website.
Patient story
In the below video, Robert Blackmore talks about using a text message based tool to monitor his hypertension and help his GP practice prescribe him the right medication.
What is Connect Me?
Connect Me is the new name for a variety of services or options which may be offered as a means for an individual to interact and communicate with their healthcare professionals.
Some of these services were known by various names in recent years such as:
- Remote Health Pathways
- Remote Health Monitoring
- Home and Mobile Health Monitoring
- Telehealth
To find out more, please see our sections on
Remote Health Pathways (RHPs)
We are currently using RHPs in Primary (GP Practice) and Acute (Hospital) Care.
These have been designed in partnership with clinicians and specialist nursing teams.
Primary Care
- COPD Self-management (aimed at providing up to date information about COPD and self-management and providing useful links for future use)
These pathways have been developed to provide up to date relevant information to GP Practices to allow them to carry out annual reviews for patients with long term conditions.
- Multi Long Term Conditions Review (Targeted at those patients with LTC to collate annual review assessment data and then triage them to the necessary level of care)
- COPD Review
- Asthma Review
- Epilepsy Review
- Depression Review
- Contraceptive Pill Review
- BP Scale Up (Targeted at those patients suspected or diagnosed with hypertension to monitor them remotely. Diagnosis, titration & long-term management)
Acute Care
Links and resources
If your GP Practice asks you to complete any of the Review Pathways above, you will notice there are useful links within the questionnaire. These links will disappear once you complete the questionnaire, but we have compiled these for your reference: Review pathways: support resources.
NHS Ayrshire & Arran mobile app
The NHS Ayrshire & Arran app is available to download for your mobile device:
Apps currently available have been developed by the relevant services. These provide information to patients at the touch of a button:
- Healthy Weight Ayrshire
- Dental
- Paediatric Training
- Alcohol and Drugs
- Adult Diabetes
- Autism, ADHD, FASD, Learning Disability Info
- Ayrshire Children’s Diabetes
- Helping you manage your COPD
- Mental Health
- Speech & Language Therapy
- Dementia – Post Diagnostic Support
- Life After Intensive Care
- Ayrshire Bairns (Health Visiting)
- Green Health
- Pain Management
Kardia Devices
All GP practices and specialist cardiac services have the use of a kardia device.
This portable ECG reader can detect unusual rhythms in your heart such as atrial fibrillation (AF).
What is NHS Near Me?
Near Me / Attend Anywhere is a safe and secure NHS video calling platform that helps us to offer video call access to our services from wherever you are, without travelling – bringing care closer to you.