Top Tips

Top tips for choosing a Digital Social Care Record

    1. You can find a list of all the nationally assured solutions at Assured solutions for digital social care records | Digitising Social Care.
      Not all the solutions will be suitable for your service – some are for domiciliary care only and some are for residential care only.

    2. How to get started.  The Department of Health & Social Care have created a useful website to help you make a decision: Find assured solutions for digital social care records | Digitising Social Care,
    3.  The filter tool on this web page will ask you a series of questions about your current software suppliers and the needs of your business.  By answering some simple questions, you will get a list of the suppliers that match your requirements.
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    5. Most of the suppliers have provided a 30 minute demonstration recording. Digitising Social Care – YouTube – Once you have your short list, you could have a look at the recordings for those suppliers.
    6. If you can narrow it down to a final 1 or 2, then it would be worth asking the supplier to do their full demo and sales pitch.
    7. If you can, talk to another local care provider who uses your shortlisted solutions. Ask them about their experience of implementing and using it.

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