Care for the Future
Article by Simon Whalley, Chairman, Birtley House Group Ltd. In a world that has seen such an upheaval in the last year we need to look to the future and…
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Every Day is Different
Article by Professor Deborah Sturdy OBE, Chief Nurse for Adult Social Care at DHSC | Working in adult social care has been an enormous privilege and one of the highlights…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The White Paper and Adult Social Care: Care England’s Initial Response
This week, Care England submitted its response to the Health and Social Care Committee’s inquiry into the Health and Care White Paper. Similarly, we, too, wrote to Matt Hancock regarding…
We’ll meet again
By Rachel Griffiths, Consultant in the Mental Capacity Act and Human Rights Law. | In spring, our lives overtaken by the pandemic, we all found our inner war time spirit…