With the Care and Quality Commission’s (CQC) CQC’s new Single Assessment Framework now including a crucial quality statement on environmental sustainability, care homes must consider how they respond. Implementing environmental sustainability can be an area of concern for managers, so how can care homes enhance their sustainability and make important financial savings at the same time?
Advantage Analytics is a cloud-based data collection and aggregation platform that provides care homes with essential insight into their utilities – how much they are using, when they are using it and how much it is costing them – financially and environmentally. Here are three ways this service benefits care homes;
Tracking Progress Through Carbon Reporting
Compliance with the CQC’s quality statement on environmental impact is essential, so the care sector must consider tools like Advantage Analytics that calculate environmental impact and enable carbon reduction. Our service uses carbon reporting to measure, manage and then reduce usage, driving sustainability credentials and demonstrating progress over time. As part of the care sector’s Corporate Social Responsibility, Advantage Analytics also provides consistent reporting on annual carbon footprint reduction that care homes can use to showcase green credentials.
Reclaiming Costs Through Better Insight
Advantage Analytics contains ultra-accurate, un-disrupted data from utility metres, providing up-to-date insight into usage and environmental impact. Better insight into utility management enables our service to highlight discrepancies in rates, taxes, and levies for care homes, leading to the recovery of incorrect charges. In 2024 so far, Advantage Utilities has identified over £286,000 in overcharges and has so far recovered more than £245,000 for all the businesses using our service.
Overhauling Approach to Energy
Advantage Analytics uses the latest environmental data sets to better identify where resources are likely to be needed in future. This includes data on local temperatures, solar irradiance and daylight, enabling care homes to understand the generation potential of their existing energy assets and adapting to the needs of each care home.
To learn more about how Advantage Analytics could enable your sustainability journey, get in touch via our website, or contact us on 0208 131 4982.
