9. Calls on the Commission to encourage e-health solutions for isolated women, not only those living in remote areas but also isolated and home-bound women lacking the necessary mobility and/or (social) support network to maintain their health and wellbeing;

11. Believes that smart technologies must deliver accurate, understandable and user-friendly information to consumers, and must empower them to manage their energy consumption and production; believes, therefore, that smart technologies must be completed with dynamic, online transmission and distribution grid management, incorporating such services as grid support services, voluntary demand-side response, energy efficiency services, micro-generation and storage solutions, and local or home brokers; points out, however, that the levels of energy consumption required for smart meters to provide economic advantages must be duly scrutinise ...[+++]d, and that consumers of energy volumes below such levels shall not be obliged to invest in them;

40 Calls on the Member States to further develop eHealth services and gender sensitive ambient-assisted living solutions in order to promote independent living at home, and to make health services more efficient and accessible for older women who are isolated for reasons of mobility and who are more often excluded from the benefits of these facilities, and to establish a 24-hour telephone advice network; ;

The "reinvention of the urban postal counter network" is aimed at restoring the urban post office network to sustainability by reducing its size while both keeping to the newly redefined urban counter cover obligation (95% of urban residents must live within a mile of a post office) and optimising counter location.

To try and make the point Mrs Attwooll was making yet more vivid, 30 miles away from the house in which I live in Edinburgh, midway between Edinburgh and Glasgow, at the town of Motherwell, lies the most northerly freight outpost of the trans-European network into the United Kingdom, the Motherwell Eurocentral depot.

We encourage the government to take steps necessary to provide a home care act that would be analogous to the Canada Health Act, through which home care services would have proper principles and guidelines for those services to be delivered without user fees or means tests through a system of public community health centres.