...(the Alliance) engaged with users on improvements to their supportive telecare. The first phase of Project Liberty started in January 2019. Communicare247 led and project managed this part of Glasgow City Council’s “Technology-enabled Glasgow” challenge, joined by partners and stakeholders including the Alliance, the Glasgow Health and Social Care Partnership, and Tunstall. The objective for Project Liberty is to be a scalable digital telecare template system to be deployed by local authorities, housing associations, and care providers across the UK. Interestingly, and perhaps uniquely for Scotland, the smart home devices for home care will connect with Scotland’s long-range wide area... Continue Reading
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Further information on Tunstall’s reorganization
At the end of our 8 October article, we noted that Tunstall Group Holdings was purchased by a Jersey-based group. It is a registered private company listed as Tunstall Integrated Healthcare Holdings Limited, registered in St Helier on 31 July. Its previous name, which may be found in the Companies House reports, was Don Jersey Topco Limited. JFSC Companies Registry, OpenCorporates Tunstall Healthcare Group Limited, which we noted had not filed a report by the 30 September deadline, now links to a new company name on Companies House, Exdon 1 Limited. The board voted for liquidation on 30 September, to... Continue Reading
UK highlights: Doro acquires Connexus Careline, Tunstall warns on winter isolation and disconnected care, Buddi seeks Sales Account Manager
...all these individual systems and different technologies? What will Doro UK represent in the market, now that they are second in the UK? Tunstall Healthcare UK is also reminding local governments, health and social care leaders that winter is approaching, and now is the time to set up remote patient monitoring to connect to care the most vulnerable in cold weather, a factor magnified by their isolation during the continuing pandemic. Tunstall features several solutions in RPM which are mentioned in the release. Editor’s note: this type of seasonal release was a staple for QuietCare when I was in marketing... Continue Reading
Tunstall Healthcare (UK) and Group Holdings’ 2019 year end reports filed: highlights
With all the changes at Tunstall Healthcare Group [TTA 2 Sep, 10 Apr], their Companies House filings due 30 September for the 2019 fiscal year might tell us more about their status prior to the entry of their new funders Barings, M&G, and a possible third investor. Tunstall files three main reports: one for Tunstall Healthcare (UK) Limited, for Tunstall Healthcare Group Limited, and Tunstall Group Holdings Limited, the holding company. The UK unit and Tunstall Group Holdings filed by the 30 September deadline; the Healthcare Group has not filed as of today. Tunstall UK’s report is in PDF here.... Continue Reading
Doro adds Spain’s Victrix SocSan to its growing brand portfolio for £1.28 million plus shares
...Cash upfront is SEK 14.8 million (UK£1.28 million, US$1.65 million, €1.41 million). The 232,744 shares in Doro AB closed today at SEK47.50 which is about SEK11.05 million (UK£956 thousand, US$1.2 million, €1.1 million). There are other payouts noted in the press release. Their results will be consolidated into Doro’s from 30 September. According to the release, the Victrix team will be joining Doro. Their CEO and founder, Joe Killen, is a familiar figure in the UK from his nearly 20 years at Tunstall Spain and Southern Europe. Hat tip to one of our UK Readers who wishes to stay anonymous.... Continue Reading
Public Policy Projects, Tunstall UK release joint TECS study finding growth during pandemic, recommendations
Weekend reading. Public Policy Projects and Tunstall Healthcare UK & Ireland have released a joint study finding, unsurprisingly but encouragingly, that the usage of technology-enabled care services (TECS) has accelerated during the COVID-19 pandemic. The nine-part, 62-page study electronically available here examines TECS through case studies in England, Scotland, and Wales as well as in France, Sweden, and especially Spain. There is a worthwhile examination of the types of TECS currently existing, a look back at the Whole System Demonstrator (WSD), barriers to adoption, and recommendations for policy going forward. ECHAlliance/Tunstall release. Tunstall UK also won the ‘Leading Innovators in... Continue Reading
Tunstall funding by M&G, Barings passes European Commission ‘concentration’ review
The European Commission, in a brief filing on EUR-Lex, has stated their ‘non-opposition’ to the ‘concentration’ in Tunstall Group Holdings’ additional funding obtained by M&G Investment Management and Baring Asset Management via share purchase. Tunstall announced this funding in April [TTA 10 April] and filed with the European Commission on 3 June (prior notification). The definition of ‘concentration’ in the EU is the legal combination of two or more firms by merger or acquisition. The prior notification from the Commission considers that this concentration may fall within the scope of the Merger Regulations but reserved a decision on this. Charterhouse... Continue Reading
News roundup: Ancestry sells 75% to Blackstone, Cornwall NHS partners with Tunstall, most dangerous health IT trends, Slovenski departs from Walmart Health
...the company or its business partners, but says it will not share users’ genetic information with insurers, employers or third-party marketers without their express consent.” But when your 75 percent owner has real estate and other healthcare holdings, can you trust them? Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust partnered with Tunstall Healthcare UK on a 26-week support program during the pandemic for young people 11+ with a range of eating disorders. The patient group used the myMobile app and the ICP triagemanager software to send in weekly reports on their vital signs and answer symptom-related questions, which are tracked over time... Continue Reading
CEO to CEO: TSA’s Alyson Scurfield interview with Tunstall CEO Gordon Sutherland (updated)
If you are following the changes at Tunstall Healthcare, TSA’s Alyson Scurfield’s talk with Gordon Sutherland has some significant news. The investment from Barings, M&G, and the lender group has been confirmed as a change of ownership. It could be inferred from the release, but was not explicit. From Mr. Sutherland: “The change in ownership deal is now subject to several legal steps including a European Commission review regarding Competition Law. We expect to be able to address any issues and the deal to be signed in late June/July.” Checking back on the Charterhouse website, Tunstall is still categorized as... Continue Reading
Tunstall Healthcare secures funding from Barings, M&G
...pro forma quote from the CEO, Gordon Sutherland, and no mention of Charterhouse Capital Partners LLP. which has controlled Tunstall since Tunstall is still listed on their website as a unexited portfolio company. Perhaps clues to their future, or past, are here. An anonymous source advised this Editor to take a closer look at a company called TGH Acquisitions Limited. Their report on Companies House indicates that indeed it is a financing arm of Tunstall Healthcare Group with its last report for the year ending 30 Sept 2018–and showing an after-tax profit of over £75 million. Unfortunately, the parent company... Continue Reading
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