Reassessing Digital Social Care Record Systems

As the social care sector accelerates its digital transformation initiatives, a critical question emerges: are existing digital social care record systems truly equipped to support the complex care needs of service users? Certainly, no two service users are alike, and so too it is with digital care systems. 

Are They Truly Supporting Complex Care Needs?

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) and National Health Service (NHS) England have played a pivotal role in improving digital maturity across adult social care providers. However, in the headlong rush to get care providers into a digital social care record system and to take advantage of the monetary incentives, some decisions may now need to be revisited to ensure the promise is being delivered. 

Despite significant progress, many providers still rely on platforms that are not fully capable to effectively manage complex care conditions such as severe dementia, profound autism, learning disabilities, challenging behaviour, mental health, palliative care and other long-term chronic illnesses. 

This is where Cura comes to the fore – putting you in control with its highly configurable risk assessments, user-definable care plan structures, GP Connect HTML View, dynamic management dashboard, in-depth incident reporting, integrated roster, next of kin and staff apps.  

One of Cura’s stand-out features is its readiness to adapt to unique care situations and make caregiver productivity a core part of the system.  

“The forms and care plans are very well made and are used daily. We appreciated the ability to be able to create our own forms in form builder as this meant we could create unique forms specifically for our needs.” - Samridhi Virk, Finance and HR Manager of D&J Care Services