The Five Steps to Digital Transformation
Article written with Care England Supporter Deputy. In a month which saw Secretary of State Sajid Javid highlight three key areas for social care in his speech to the Care…
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The recent funding proposals: a missed opportunity for digital transformation in social care
The government has put forward proposals for social care funding. Of the ¬£36bn promised from the Health and Social Care levy over the next three years, social care is due…
Connectivity
Over the next few weeks, this timely weekly blog will bring into focus the digital and tech development developments being implemented in this time of crisis. For digital development at…
What does Digital Social Care Mean
I am a digital social care consultant. I have often struggled to describe what exactly that means and what Digital Social care is. One of the best ways to explain…
Digital tools: The Generic, the Bespoke and the Hybrids
It is a privilege to be able to talk to so many providers who have coped with the massive strain over the past 9 months. The ways people have found…
Data in the Time of Pandemic
Data collection has become a major political issue during the COVID-19 pandemic. For the early part of this crisis the only meaningful figures everyone knew for certain were the number…
Intelligent Automation
Talk of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is often not realistic for those of us working in care. The definition of AI, as I understand it, is that inanimate objects learn to…
We have a lemon, let’s make lemonade
Communications Opportunities in Covid, The lemon to lemonade phrase is a hackneyed one my grandmother used to say to me when things went wrong. But we have all had over…
Communications: Lessons from the pandemic?
A fascinating report has just been released by Future Care Capital (FCC) and Ipsos MORI on the use of social media analysis by frontline workers during the first wave of…
On the one hand the basics. On the other hand, aspire to the care home of the future
I am in the midst of two projects which are pulling me in different directions, or at least that’s what I thought. On the one hand I have just recorded…
Where now for NHSX – Failing fast?
People who have heard me speak will know how complimentary I have been about NHSX – how it has taken up the cudgel and run with it – providing leadership…
Data‚ What is it good for?
Easy to respond “Absolutely nothing” parodying Frankie Goes to Hollywood circa 19841 ‚Ķ but heh let’s consider it a bit more. I think we are all in social care tired…