News and thinking
Announcements about Plait, and our views on technology, openness and adult social care.
Really Embracing Web Standards
We have just completed deploying a new preview release which has a number of user interface changes. Because we have always been developing new features as rapidly as possible, we…
eMAR rollout during pandemic
It’s hard to imagine a tougher time for a home care provider to roll out a new IT solution, but congratulations to Noel Williams and his team at Calon Lan Community Care who have…
A Tale of Two Hacks
Other government departments can make data available - why not the NHS?
New Partnership with Bloomsbury
ReallyCare CIC are pleased to announce a new partnership deal with Bloomsbury Home Care, which will enable accelerated delivery of the full Plait Care Management solution.…
Working towards release
Having been working for years on various elements that make up the social care system of the future (yet without having completed any of them) it is beginning to look like we are…
You get what you pay for...?
The internet is everyone’s shop window, and increasingly people are peering in through the small screens on their phones and tablets. This week Google started reporting in their…
On Broken-ness
A homecare company (lets call them ACME Care) that I got chatting to at a conference recently get quite a lot of referrals from Continuing Health Care (which often means the…
Ensuring Excellence
Yesterday at a Kings Fund conference I attended a session entitled “Ensuring Excellence”, where one of the speakers was the National Programme Director of the LGA’s “Towards…
Better Care Guide is now Open Source
Note to Non Techies in Social Care: Please read this post - if you think that you cannot make a contribution to an open source project you are wrong! We have taken the decision…
A kind of manifesto
We believe - passionately - in transparency, fairness and services that are of value to the community. We are trying to disrupt the Good Care Guide because we believe its model…
New Version of Better Care Guide
The Good Care Guide, as many care providers know, costs £72 per year for a subscription. The two major benefits of subscription are that: 1. you can add information about your…
Staff Turnover
I had the idea for this blog post a few months ago, but (typically) didn't put pen to paper - or whatever the modern equivalent is. In the last couple of weeks I have been prodded…
Fixing the Care System
Like everyone else involved with social care I watched Panorama (which showed hidden camera footage of abuse at a care home) the other night. I wanted to watch it live so I could…
Open Data in Social Care
Last week the National Audit Office put out a document called "Implementing Transparency" part of which (8.2 - if you are interested) said that we need open data about social care…
A culture of open-ness
Most of my time I spend dealing with open formats, open data or open source software. The other day I was having a conversation with someone who works for a public body, funded by…
Reinventing the Wheel - 152 times
This opening blog post is based on an email I wrote a couple of weeks ago, but I was prompted to tidy it up and publish it by a @shirleyayres tweet from last Friday: I seriously…