Our projects
In 2008 the AT Alliance was successful in its bid for funding from the Department of Health for its three year 'AT Information Network for the Future' project, looking at how people find out about assistive technology.
The project brings together the expertise of the four organisations in the AT Alliance in information, evaluation, policy and user experience, and will build capacity within the sector to effect market change to meet future user needs, contributing to the improvement of health and social care services.
Alliance members have produced two reports during the course of the project.
The first, entitled The AT Information Network - Mapping the Information Environment, the Challenges and Opportunities (published in September 2010), summarises the findings from the first two years of the project from April 2008-March 2010. The report covers specific research and the development of partnership working between the four AT Alliance member organisations: DLF, Assist UK, Ricability and FAST, and the design and trial of a new website guide All about Equipment.
The second report, entitled Anarchy or Opportunity? The future for Assistive Technology information services (published June 2011) considers how the environment for information on Assistive Technology (sometimes known as daily living equipment) has changed since the formation of the Coalition Government.
