The Importance of HR Compliance Training for Care Workers
HR Compliance is often an area that gets overlooked in the Care Sector and is not always given the attention it deserves. Effective HR Compliance Training can be the difference between keeping employees or losing them due to negative working environments or conflicts at work. Not to mention the obvious benefits like employee retention, building […]
INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT: Planday workforce management
Planday offers an easy-to-use workforce management platform with all the functionality you need, including scheduling, communications, time tracking, vacation and absence management and payroll calculations. With our technology and highly responsive customer success team, Planday helps care providers to operate more efficiently, streamline staff management and planning processes and help improve employee engagement. URL: https://www.planday.com/uk/lp/careforum
GUEST BLOG: Let’s talk about Smart Home Social Care
As the population ages, the demand for high quality carers rises. By 2026 it’s predicted that the UK will need around 420,000 more carers, but with the current vacancy rate high and the amount of those showing interest in the care sector diminishing, it’s important that technology is utilised in order to help fill the gaps […]
OPINION: Improving the image of care
By Care Home Management With Care Home Open Day just around the corner (June 28), care home managers may well be wondering whether it’s worth the effort to get involved. After all, unless you work in, or have a friend or relative in a care home, why on earth would you be interested in visiting […]
CASE STUDY: Smart Infrastructure – Well-designed hospitals help patients heal faster
By Siemens Smart Infrastructure When patients are allowed to recover in a more comfortable environment studies show there is a positive impact on their healing and well-being. Effective building design has been widely used to help patients recover more quickly and hospital staff to work more efficiently. Evidence-based design (EBD), the process of making changes […]
From caring to a career – it’s time to strike a healthy balance for caregivers
Helen Dempster, Chief Visionary Officer at Karantis360 In today’s pressurised climate, it is hard to ignore the growing burdens on caregivers. An increasing number of people are juggling a full-time job and part-time carer role, which is having an incremental impact on their ability to progress in their profession. With 47 percent of caregivers stating that this […]
GUEST BLOG: Automating social care
Matt Hancock once again has called for the NHS to adopt new technology in order to survive. But how can IoT, AI and robotics be utilised to improve the care sector? Helen Dempster, Chief Visionary at Karantis360, writes… Matt Hancock has once again called for the NHS to adopt new technology in order to survive, […]
Care workers need help protecting their mental health
The Care sector does a tremendous job looking after other people, but does it do such a great job of looking after its own staff, especially when it comes to their mental health and wellbeing? Care workers have some of the most stressful and emotionally challenging jobs imaginable. On any given day, they’ll be dealing […]
GUEST BLOG: How technology could help detect social care fraud
By Julian Pilling, CEO, Solutio UK Social care has become a political hot topic as cutbacks to the sector continue. Spending on social care in the UK constitutes an incredible £32 billion per year, with £22 billion being spent on adult social care and £10 billion on children’s. Adult social care alone accounts for 38% […]
