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 it is to describe the projects which I typically work on in one month.
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 it is to describe the projects which I typically work on in one month. In this past month I have worked on the following:
Local Authorities and Digital Social Care
I am advising a local authority which is keen to enhance its own provision of care. It is reenabling a care home and planning two new care homes for older people. They say they want to set up these homes as digital exemplars for other homes. We have interviewed a range of care professionals, tech suppliers and advanced care homes: there are some amazing things going on in care home provision. For example, one of the areas we are looking into is wrist monitors that can track a person’s vital signs on a continuing basis – taking remote monitoring one step further and considering the many moral, ethical and practical considerations of use of such monitors.
PPP report – “Innovation”
I have been working with Public Policy Projects on a wider piece of work on the future of social care and its funding. A major focus of the work has been innovation in care. Over the course of writing the report, it has become more apparent than ever that innovation (be it tech or otherwise) needs to stem from the individuals we are caring for. Do they want/need what is being designed for them, and is it designed with them as the main focus?
NHSX
I sit on the Digital Social Care Advisory Group of NHSX. This is a group which meets every 3 months to update and be updated about what is happening in social care relating to NHSX. Recently Care England has been working with NHSX more closely to ensure that providers are considered in any developments. Coming from this meeting was a discussion on AI and how NHSX wants to encourage and incentivise social care providers who are starting to look at AI.
Together with my colleagues at Digital Social Care (www.digitalsocialcare.co.uk) I continue to work closely with the Digital Social Care Records team at NHSX. IT hopes to help all care providers have digital care records in place by 2024 (or even earlier if possible). Soon we will be evaluating submissions by ICSs to be involved in a programme to encourage take-up of care records in their footprint.
NHSX has encouraged us to ask you what you think of the contribution NHSX has made to digitally transforming social care in the past 3 months. There is a short questionnaire which NHSX would like you to complete if you have the time.
Enterprise Ireland
I am preparing a presentation for a panel organised by Enterprise Ireland discussing with Irish companies how to approach the UK social care market with new digital applications. That will be all about making sure they understand the market and how they can enter it. If you are interested you can register here – https://lnkd.in/g5VMEkc
Capacity Tracker & Data
For Care England, I sit on the Capacity Tracker Steering Board which is now part of the governance structure of Capacity Tracker. This past week I hosted a meeting with care software suppliers to see if there was a way that data input into care management systems could populate Capacity Tracker directly, saving much time.
This links into a blog I now have on the NHSX website about how data taken directly from digital care records could feed data and analysis systems. The goal being that care providers should not have to fill in multiple data platforms to feed the systems’ thirst for data. In fact, I am due to have a meeting with a Care England member who has specifically said that they are very concerned about the number of data platforms they have to complete. I want to raise their issues with NHSX and the DHSC. See DataSavesLives _ How data can be captured.
Digital Social Care and Better Security Better Care (Data Security and Protection toolkit)
As part of Digital Social Care, Care England is doing a couple of things. My Care England colleague Louis Holmes is part of the Digital Social Care Helpdesk team (help@digitalsocialcare.co.uk, @DigiSocialCare and 020 8133 3430) which is ready to give guidance on anything digital for care providers. We are also working on the Better Security, Better Care Programme to ensure that all providers publish the Data Security & Protection Toolkit (DSPT – which should be a major part of any provider’s data security armoury). My part in this programme is trying to make the process as smooth for larger providers as possible.
That is a short overview of some of the projects which I and Care England are involved in, all with the goal of trying to embed digital at the heart of social care.
If you would like any more info. on any of these projects do let me and the team know.
Daniel Casson is Care England’s Adviser on digital transformation.
MD of Casson Consulting (London) Limited
Co-host of theTalking Care podcast
Digital Care Tech 21 _ Laing Buisson Conference Director
Executive of Digital Social Care _ www.digitalsocialcare.co.uk
@CareEngDigital
@DigiSocialCare
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 it is to describe the projects which I typically work on in one month. In this past month I have worked on the following:
Local Authorities and Digital Social Care
I am advising a local authority which is keen to enhance its own provision of care. It is reenabling a care home and planning two new care homes for older people. They say they want to set up these homes as digital exemplars for other homes. We have interviewed a range of care professionals, tech suppliers and advanced care homes: there are some amazing things going on in care home provision. For example, one of the areas we are looking into is wrist monitors that can track a person’s vital signs on a continuing basis – taking remote monitoring one step further and considering the many moral, ethical and practical considerations of use of such monitors.
PPP report – “Innovation”
I have been working with Public Policy Projects on a wider piece of work on the future of social care and its funding. A major focus of the work has been innovation in care. Over the course of writing the report, it has become more apparent than ever that innovation (be it tech or otherwise) needs to stem from the individuals we are caring for. Do they want/need what is being designed for them, and is it designed with them as the main focus?
NHSX
I sit on the Digital Social Care Advisory Group of NHSX. This is a group which meets every 3 months to update and be updated about what is happening in social care relating to NHSX. Recently Care England has been working with NHSX more closely to ensure that providers are considered in any developments. Coming from this meeting was a discussion on AI and how NHSX wants to encourage and incentivise social care providers who are starting to look at AI.
Together with my colleagues at Digital Social Care (www.digitalsocialcare.co.uk) I continue to work closely with the Digital Social Care Records team at NHSX. IT hopes to help all care providers have digital care records in place by 2024 (or even earlier if possible). Soon we will be evaluating submissions by ICSs to be involved in a programme to encourage take-up of care records in their footprint.
NHSX has encouraged us to ask you what you think of the contribution NHSX has made to digitally transforming social care in the past 3 months. There is a short questionnaire which NHSX would like you to complete if you have the time.
Enterprise Ireland
I am preparing a presentation for a panel organised by Enterprise Ireland discussing with Irish companies how to approach the UK social care market with new digital applications. That will be all about making sure they understand the market and how they can enter it. If you are interested you can register here – https://lnkd.in/g5VMEkc
Capacity Tracker & Data
For Care England, I sit on the Capacity Tracker Steering Board which is now part of the governance structure of Capacity Tracker. This past week I hosted a meeting with care software suppliers to see if there was a way that data input into care management systems could populate Capacity Tracker directly, saving much time.
This links into a blog I now have on the NHSX website about how data taken directly from digital care records could feed data and analysis systems. The goal being that care providers should not have to fill in multiple data platforms to feed the systems’ thirst for data. In fact, I am due to have a meeting with a Care England member who has specifically said that they are very concerned about the number of data platforms they have to complete. I want to raise their issues with NHSX and the DHSC. See DataSavesLives _ How data can be captured.
Digital Social Care and Better Security Better Care (Data Security and Protection toolkit)
As part of Digital Social Care, Care England is doing a couple of things. My Care England colleague Louis Holmes is part of the Digital Social Care Helpdesk team (help@digitalsocialcare.co.uk, @DigiSocialCare and 020 8133 3430) which is ready to give guidance on anything digital for care providers. We are also working on the Better Security, Better Care Programme to ensure that all providers publish the Data Security & Protection Toolkit (DSPT – which should be a major part of any provider’s data security armoury). My part in this programme is trying to make the process as smooth for larger providers as possible.
That is a short overview of some of the projects which I and Care England are involved in, all with the goal of trying to embed digital at the heart of social care.
If you would like any more info. on any of these projects do let me and the team know.
Daniel Casson is Care England’s Adviser on digital transformation.
MD of Casson Consulting (London) Limited
Co-host of theTalking Carepodcast
Digital Care Tech 21 _ Laing Buisson Conference Director
Executive of Digital Social Care _ www.digitalsocialcare.co.uk
@CareEngDigital
@DigiSocialCare
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