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The legal industry in the United Kingdom has become increasingly competitive in recent years, with law firms of all sizes vying for clients and market share. To stay competitive, law firms must use the latest legal technology, including legal software that helps them manage their cases, streamline their operations, and deliver exceptional client service. But how do large law firms pick the legal software that is best for them? This article will explore the key factors that large law firms should consider when choosing the right solution. 

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Integrating your practice management and document management systems can offer a wide range of benefits to your business, including increased efficiency, improved organization, and enhanced security. In this blog post, we will explore the top benefits of integrating these two systems and how they can help your business thrive. 

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Access Legal

Local authorities and councils in the UK have a wide range of responsibilities that require the use of software to manage operations efficiently. Legal software is a critical component of these systems, as it ensures that local authorities and councils are compliant with the relevant laws and regulations. In this article, we will explore the importance of legal software for local authorities and councils in the UK. 

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Marketing is an essential part of any business, and law firms are no exception. With so many law firms competing for clients, it's crucial to use the latest legal marketing trends to attract and retain clients. In this blog, we'll explore how law firms can use legal marketing trends to market their services effectively.

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Emma Flack

We can’t escape it; digital transformation is here to stay, and it’s not just for large multinational law firms but for all sizes and types of law firms.

The term digital transformation refers to the process of using digital technologies to transform and modernise traditional business operations, cultures and customer experiences. In the context of law firms, this means leveraging technology to improve efficiency and expand their services as they strive to stay competitive in an increasingly digital world.

By 2025 70% of organisations will implement structured infrastructure automation to deliver flexibility and efficiency, up from 20% in 2021

Gartner – Predicts 2022: Driving Toward Digital Infrastructure Platforms.

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Jo Hunter

Legal Marketing Specialist

It is estimated to take anywhere from between 6 and 18 months for a law firm to become paperless, if they are serious about doing so. A medium-sized law firm with the right approach could be almost entirely paperless within a 6-month period, depending on the size and complexity of the Practice. A small firm should definitely be able to achieve it sooner. Whilst at the other end of the scale a very large, long-established firm with many traditional paper-based processes still in place, could easily take up to 18 months to become completely independent of paper. 

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Claire Wardle

Writer of Health and Social Care

Are you unsure what the difference between population health and population health management is? Or do you know the difference but you are not sure how to implement it to have effective population health management? Or, are you just curious to see what software solutions are available? 

By the end of this article, all these questions should be answered for you.  

At The Access Group, we are aware of how health and care needs are changing. People are living longer with poorer health and some of our behaviours are increasing the risks of preventable diseases like type 2 diabetes.  

We know that health is more than just medical; it can be affected by social, economic, environmental, and political factors out of our control too.  

We work hard therefore to provide an eco-system of joined-up digital solutions to help you deliver and support better person-centred care to ensure better population health management outcomes.  

In this article, we will compare the differences between population health, and population health management, whilst explaining why it is important locally, regionally, and nationally too. This article will then explain how different digital tools can help deliver effective population health management depending on your local community’s needs and goals.  

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Kat Howard

Director at DRET Teaching School Hub

Not only will a good quality and effective curriculum plan provide school leaders with a robust structure and measurable strategy for delivering education, it should also be designed with the aim of inspiring pupils and ensuring that teachers feel professionally rewarded within their role.

Knowing how best to approach curriculum planning step by step, can be challenging for schools, with so many things to consider and an array of different stakeholders involved. Of course, teachers play a key role in developing and implementing the curriculum, as well as making any required changes, therefore they need to be involved in the conversation.

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Claire Wardle

Writer of Social Prescribing

In recent years social prescribing has grown dramatically across the UK. Currently 1 in 5 people visit their GP for non-clinical reasons. Social prescribing is a non-clinical way to support individuals to improve their health and wellbeing, and alleviate pressure on the NHS.

When an individual gets referred to a social prescribing programme they have often been referred by a referral agent or they have self-referred themselves. The most common referral agents tend to be GPs or nurses but could be in other roles including: housing officers, social workers, tutors or teachers. Once an individual has been referred they are connected to a Social Prescribing Link Worker who will meet with the individual to co-produce their social prescription.

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Harriet Brewitt

GCSEPod has been helping students improve their grades for 15 years. Since its launch in 2008 GCSEPod has grown to be the market leading online revision tool and has earned numerous awards and accolades from its user base.

As much as we like to attest to the success of our own software, these claims are backed up by data and the numbers speak volumes. Students with the top 25% of usage achieved an average increase of 17 attainment 8 scores versus their predicted score, which means GCSEPod can increase users exam results by two grades higher per subject.

The effectiveness of GCSEPod is down to its combination of content, assessment and the intelligence it provides to lift pupils to the next level. Every year our product team take a deep dive into this data to produce a knowledge and confidence gap report. This edition has assessed information from over 80,000 GCSE students over the 21/22 academic year and identified areas students need to focus more on to improve their grades.

In this blog we present some highlights from our findings and talk about the benefits of technology in education. You can also download the full knowledge and confidence gap report here.

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