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Where possible, community care teams should work from purpose-built premises with broadband connection to the internet, and access to both health and social care computer systems. Videoconferencing should be available to improve communication with other teams, to help professionals learn from others and to minimise travel for staff.
Various diagnostic tests should be available in the buildings where these teams are based, so that patients do not have to travel far. Digital image transfer should be provided as a minimum in all remote and rural hospitals, whilst it is proposed that more advanced imaging, such as CT scanning should be available in every Rural General Hospital. Such services will be supplemented by a variety of mobile diagnostic facilities, such as breast screening and screening for osteoporosis, which can be delivered closer to home.
As part of the changes proposed by the group, NHS Boards are being asked to review their premises and identify those hospitals where some modernisation might be required.
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