The Adult Social Care Technology Fund: bid update

What’s the fund designed to attain?

The Digitising Social Care programme is funded by Division of Well being and Social Care and delivered in partnership with NHS England. The programme goals to help the adoption of digital applied sciences within the grownup social care sector.

Nevertheless, the speedy development in modern and thrilling know-how now accessible to help care could make it troublesome for care suppliers to know which applied sciences to spend money on.

It was with this in thoughts that we launched our Grownup Social Care Know-how Fund in April 2023. We needed this funding provide to assist us determine care tech options that might have potential for wider rollout inside the care sector, and in doing so help it with strong proof to make choices and prioritise investments in care know-how.

Alongside this, funding support continues to be accessible by way of the digitising social care programme for the adoption of digital social care report options (DSCR).

We invited Built-in Care Methods, care suppliers, native authorities, analysis companions and know-how suppliers to submit expressions of curiosity to use for funding to help the procurement and implementation of know-how options that targeted on at the very least one among our three precedence areas:

• To extend care high quality and security
• To scale back avoidable admissions or re-admissions to hospital
• To extend the help for folks to stay independently in their very own house

The evaluation course of

Curiosity within the fund from the sector was excessive and we acquired greater than 100 expressions of curiosity for the primary wave. Following the assessment of those by a multi-disciplinary panel, as described in a previous blog post, we moved a complete of 15 bids into the second stage of the method.

We requested for extra detailed implementation plans from bidders, in addition to the completion of a separate analysis plan and an financial modelling instrument.

We performed an in depth evaluation and assessment of every of the bids, assessing the purposes throughout a variety of standards.

4 profitable bids

Nationwide Care Group: Over £300,000 to enhance the standard of remedy administration and recording and promote independence in taking remedy utilizing an Digital Remedy Administration Report System. This may enhance the accuracy of recording remedy and enhance well being outcomes for the folks supported.

Shropshire Council: Shropshire Council, in partnership with domiciliary care suppliers, Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin ICB, My House Life England and TEC suppliers will use funding of just about £1.2m over two years to embed know-how in folks’s houses alongside a digital care supply service to assist meet care and help wants digitally. This goals to help independence within the house, assist folks handle their day by day wants and promote self-care.

Studying Borough Council: Studying Borough Council, in partnership with Henley Enterprise College, will use funding over simply over £1 million to trial and perceive the advantages and potential of know-how which makes use of sensors to watch any vital adjustments to an individual’s day by day habits that will trigger concern. The goal is to trial techniques that help folks to stay sustained or elevated independence, a way of well-being, security, and safety.

Higher Manchester ICB: NHS Higher Manchester, the College of Manchester and companions obtain nearly £380,000 to ship a mission to find out the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of utilizing a digital falls prevention programme for older folks dwelling the in the neighborhood who obtain care and help at house. This permits the person to undertake a personalised falls prevention programme and incorporates well being literacy video games to enhance consciousness of actions that promote bone well being, food plan, security at house, and hydration.