Video Conferencing

• Providing a link between patient, doctor and interpreter for those patients who cannot speak English
• Helping patients who live in rural locations who find it difficult to come to hospital.
• Training medical staff, staff can learn from experts quickly without spending times attending courses a long way away/ Get expert help whilst an operation is under way
• Expert consultation with specialists who might not be available in your local area/ Give patient a provisional diagnosis from an expert
• For regional meetings where staff would normally have to travel
• Doctors in one hospital can show burns victims and the specialist doctors in burns centres can study them and plan the operations and pre-treatment required before the patient has to travel to the specialist unit for reconstructive surgery.
• Doctors can set up meetings with face to face communication between people who are not in the same room, building or even country. This means doctors in remote location or doctors without travel money can learn about new developments from each other Not just consult around the globe OR can do it anytime anywhere

• Much cheaper as they do not have to pay for transport costs/accommodation for employees
• Experts not wasting time travelling
• Meetings can be called at short notice without too much planning
• Short meetings can be conducted where it would not be feasible for people to travel long distances for such short meetings
• Allows staff to attend meeting while out of the country /on holiday
• Can give you a better visual image of the product/ skin disease
• General facial expressions/ body language can be seen over the telephone

• no need to bring employees from different locations together, saving time and cost

of travel

• Fewer backup staff need to be employed (e.g. cleaners, caretakers)

• Staff less likely to spend time off sick/ Smaller offices are needed

• Reduced office overheads (electricity, gas, insurance, etc.)

• Staff may be more amenable to working flexible hours

• Retaining skilled workers / maternity

• Employ workers from a wider pool of talent

• Comfortable environment can lead to greater productivity - expensive to set up and run.

• Change to organisational structure may be needed

• Hard to determine how hard staff are working

• Harder for managers to manage the work

• Increased number of sites for ICT equipment may cause more security risks/Expensive to setup and run

• Employers usually pay for the employees’ ICT equipment

• More difficult to hold meetings

• More security risks as more sites

• Health and Safety checks needed on employee home