SEAMLESS: Transforming Community Health

Delivery Partners

The SEAMLESS: Transforming Community Health project is jointly funded by the UKRI Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and by the Department of Health and Social Care, National Institute of Health Research (DHSC-NIHR), and delivered together with the University of Southampton, University of Plymouth and Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.

What is SEAMLESS?

SEAMLESS: Transforming Community Health is a project that aims to create Intelligent Sensing to Promote Self-management of Posture and Mobility in Community dwelling Individuals. It seeks to transform care and health at home by creating an intelligent sensing platform to monitor the posture and mobility of individuals living in the community. By monitoring pressures between the individual and the cushion of mattress they are resting on, the project aims to provide information to patients and care givers that will help to improve understanding of the risks of being less mobile and support self management strategies to promote movement.

“There are many individuals in the community who have limited mobility and are at risk of developing pressure ulcers. Developing a bespoke technology, informed by patients, their carers, healthcare workers and industry will enable us to deliver a meaningful assistive device to support self-management of posture and mobility, alongside personalised pressure ulcer prevention care in the community.”

What our patients say

“Yes pressure ulcer has now healed and remained intact, the patient now goes to bed at night this had not been achieved for around 30 years prior to PROMISE”

“We were able to get one patient to use her chair more and her pressure ulcer healed. She wanted to go to Costa coffee, and now she can. If we hadn’t used the pressure monitor we would have been advising her to stay in bed.”

What our PPIE members say

“Being involved in PPIE is great I’ve been doing it for a year and find it truly rewarding, the reason I am involved in Seamless is because I have a chronic health condition and sometimes sit for a long while, also my mum has skin problems and she might well benefit from this. I feel this type of technology will benefit many of us in the future, it’s truly exciting and the team on Seamless are lovely people, you feel part of it”