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Our Care Conference 2024 and The Care Awards celebrate care to be proud of, making a difference to care home residents, service users, families of those receiving care and staff. It’s our way of recognising and showing appreciation for their achievements, and the fantastic contribution they make to deliver the best quality of care possible. You can read a summary of the event here.
For our in-person celebration event on 6 March, we presented six awards.
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We are Care Control. The market-leading NHS assured care management software. Our mission is simple, to empower those dedicated to delivering care with digital solutions. Our cloud-based care software is designed for use in various care settings, making it a versatile solution for your care business.
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Fulcrum Care Consulting specialises in providing strategic guidance and customised solutions to help care homes deliver exceptional care and receive positive CQC assessments that will attract potential residents.
Skills for Care is the strategic workforce development and planning body for adult social care in England. We work with employers, Government and partners to ensure social care has the right people, skills and support required to deliver the highest quality care and support now and in the future.
We train pharmacists of the future and are recognised for research in the design and use of drugs and medicines. We are ranked 5th in the world two years in a row in the 2022 and 2021*QS World Rankings for pharmacy and pharmacology.
Ignite is a specialist service set up to support anyone with an innovation, idea or solution for the health and care sector but who may not have a commercial background or knowledge of the NHS. We have listened to entrepreneurs, innovators, academics, and clinicians in the East Midlands, and have found that there is an emerging gap that limited support exists to turn innovative ideas into commercially viable solutions.
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Access care management software provides a comprehensive suite of care solutions, giving you all the tools that you need to deliver a truly joined-up approach to quality care, with the person placed firmly at the centre. We give you the freedom to deliver connected care to every individual.
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Birdie equips homecare providers with essential digital tools for managing, delivering and championing outstanding care. Birdie provides a single platform solution used by care businesses of all sizes across the UK and Europe, with care management, rostering, financing and analytics tools, alongside practical resources and support for the care industry.
More than just a care home supplier, we provide the right care products alongside knowledge, guidance and support to allow you to focus on the people who matter most.
We believe those who care for others are extraordinary and we’re here to support them to ensure they never feel alone.
Camascope’ eMAR system enables care providers to improve medication management and increase resident safety. Medicine boxes are scanned at the point-of-care to ensure a resident receives the right medication at the right time. The system is integrated with the healthcare landscape, including connections to pharmacy, GP, and care planning systems.
Carebeans is a contemporary, innovative software development company based in the UK. We build highly focused, comprehensive care planning and management software alongside fully integrated mobile applications for the UK care sector. The Carebeans team have many years of hands-on experience of giving, receiving and managing in the care sector.
We provide e-learning courses and our user friendly system holds policies and inductions.
We also have a care focussed HR product.
Cura is a specialised digital system designed for complex care settings. Cura makes a significant difference, for example, monitoring service users’ conditions accurately and in real-time by using highly configurable assessments, person-centred care plans, reminders, and timelines specifically designed for settings that deal with dementia, challenging behaviour, mental health, palliative care, long-term chronic illnesses, autism and learning difficulties.
Grey Matter Learning are an award-winning eLearning provider in the social care sector. Since 2006, it has been our mission to ‘improve lives through learning’. As a recognised Skills for Care ‘Centre of Excellence’, we help thousands of social care services and local authorities to reduce staff turnover and improve CQC ratings. Our eLearning platform, Click, features over 100 online care courses, and seamlessly links assessment, learning, and evidence.
Healthwatch Derby is an independent health and social care watchdog. We find out what people like and think could be improved about services and share these views with decision makers. We have the statutory right to Enter and View – observing a service being run and talking to everybody involved.
Our service coordinates the monitoring of residents, improving communication between health and social care, and reducing the need for healthcare staff to visit the home. Staff input readings into the app and alerts are raised for clinical follow up. The service integrates with local teams, including the GP, community nursing and dietetics.
The Long Eaton & District Talking Newspaper for the Blind & Partially sighted has been operating for 46 years (started in 1978) and has close to 140 listeners within their geographical area that covers Eastwood in the North, to Castle Donington in the South, Beeston in the East to Borrowash in the West and beyond.
Nutilis Clear is a xanthan gum-based fluid and food thickener, for the dietary management of dysphagia. It has been designed to maintain the original appearance, taste and smell of thickened fluids to support palatability, encouraging hydration and nutrition, often used in care home settings.
OneTouch is a market leading care management system that works alongside your carers to enable the best provision of care.
OneTouch has been developed as a single digital platform that provides a comprehensive functionality suite to let you start with scheduling and excel at every other aspect of the care delivery journey.
PainChek® is the world’s first regulatory cleared medical device for the assessment of pain, enabling best-practice pain management for people living with pain in any environment, including those who cannot reliably self-report their pain, those who can, and those who fluctuate between the two.
Person Centred Software offer a Connected Care platform providing a suite of integrated solutions covering the full spectrum of care management.
Solutions include Care Planning, Medication Management, Wellbeing & Activities and Care Home Operations.
Their solutions are loved by carers because they are built for carers
Specsavers Home Visits East Midlands is a locally owned and run branch, providing high quality eyecare to our patients living in residential care in Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and Leicestershire. We will liaise with you, the patient and their family to ensure their needs are met. We also provide training for carers to understand the implications of eye disease and low vision.
As a client of Swift Management Services, you will benefit from our expertise as registered nurses and care home managers.
We know the impact your CQC rating has on your staff and business, and how daunting the inspections can be. So, we’re here to give you the guidance you need to improve both care standards and CQC ratings.
UoN School of Pharmacy - Care Home placements for Student Pharmacists - information and details about the placements, and what's on offer (resources, support and funding opportunities).
Vivid Care work in the areas of specialist care seating and profiling beds, falls protection and patient lifting devices, rehabilitation and mobility equipment. We work to provide patients with complex cases and those with challenging conditions, with the best available equipment and resources to improve outcomes.
Whzan delivers remote monitoring systems commissioned by the NHS and deployed in over 3,000 care homes, virtual wards and patient healthchecks. The Whzan Blue Box comes with multiple Bluetooth connected instruments used for point of care blood tests and measuring vital signs. This award winning system has been proven in multiple NHS evaluations to significantly reduce demand on services generating huge cost savings.
Leading falls management experts, Winncare, will demonstrating their lifting cushion range and new release ISTUMBLE® 2.0 app. Supported by DTAC compliance and used widely in care homes, the app now enables users to record information around each fall they support, which is ideal for busy carers working in high pressure environments.
YourHippo - The all-in-one E-Learning & LMS Solution built just for you. Our interactive and engaging courses are crafted in-house by our training team, experts in Health & Social Care training.
Our Award-Winning LMS helps streamline your training by using our Management Area, Care Certificate, Bookings System, and many more.
Try our Reward and Recognition & Employee Benefits platform FREE for three months. Make employees feel appreciated, support your staff wellbeing and make recruitment of new members of staff easier. Plus take advantage of a special NCA member price after your trial
YOURmeds is a smart medication management system that puts people back in charge of their medication with support from their network of family and friends. Supporting adult social care and care providers we increase independence and release capacity in the system whilst providing a 4 times return on investment.
Previously the awards have focused on work in Care Homes but this year, we are opening the awards up to the wider care sector.
Winner: Angela Rennie, Church Farm Care Home at Skylarks
Highly commended: Activities Team, Oaklands
Winner: Rahim Walji, Dovecote Residential Care Home
Highly commended: Georgie Jowett and Jamie Lee Banner, Meadows Care Home
Winner: Jon Handley – Church Farm Care Home at Skylarks
Highly commended: Tina Buckby, Toller Road
Winner: Jade Mitchell, Lancaster Grange Care Home
Highly commended: Stephanie Wilkinson, Sherwood House
Winner: Amanda Holmes and Tara Tyers, Clarendon Mews
Highly commended: Sophie Bradley-Aukland, Edenhurst Rest Home
Winner: Beech House Care Home
Highly commended: Old School House (Learning Disabilities)