Digital Skills Support
Essential Digital Skills Support
This service has now ended. If you would like to express your interest and be added to a list to receive support in the future (should this project or another like it run again), please contact us on 01647 478378 or email katie@wellmoor.org.uk
Along with Devon Communities Together, we recently offered free Digital Skills support to those with long term health conditions in rural and coastal areas of Devon.
This means we provided one to one and group support to help increase your confidence with digital technology and ensure that learners can carry out the tasks required to support their daily life. Whether you want to know how to email, access healthcare information, order your shopping online, video call family, or any day-to-day internet and technology related issues, we supported you to do this.
If you’d like to read the full report on how we helped people across Devon, please click HERE.
Click on the video to listen to one of our previous Digital Support clients talk about her experience.
How have we helped people in the past?
MY CARE workshops - accessing your hospital records online
It’s now simpler than ever for you to view some aspects of your hospital and specialist community medical information online, through a platform called MY CARE - this can be accessed using an app on your mobile phone or computer.
At our previous events, we’ve helped you to set up your own MY CARE account, and if you care for someone who has capacity to make their own healthcare decisions, make sure you have access to view their hospital details too.
If viewing your hospital details online sounds like something you’d be interested in, you can learn more on the NHS website HERE.
Virtual wards
Previously, we have partnered with Devon Communities Together and other voluntary and community organisations in a pilot project to help support patients from Exeter hospital who require remote monitoring. The two week ‘virtual ward’ enabled clinicians to continue to monitor patients from the patient’s homes, checking oxygen levels for example, without them needing to be in hospital. Wellmoor provided support with the technology required to continue the monitoring, ensuring the patient feels comfortable with using it and that the right information is being communicated to the clinical teams.
Read the full report on this project HERE