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Are you a start-up or smaller care organisation? Perhaps you are looking to increase stability, build on your service and keep improving? These resources help give your care business the best possible beginning as a new or small provider.
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Introduction to the CQC – Who are they and what do they do?
In this webinar, Tobi Alli-Usman founder of Smooth Digital, the UK’s leading care sector marketing agency explored how home care providers can adapt their marketing to survive - and thrive - in the times ahead.
Home Care Digital Marketing Masterclass
In this webinar, Tobi Alli-Usman founder of Smooth Digital, the UK’s leading care sector marketing agency explored how residential care providers can adapt their marketing to survive - and thrive - in the times ahead.
Care Home Digital Marketing Masterclass
In this webinar, Tobi Alli-Usman founder of Smooth Digital, the UK’s leading care sector marketing agency explored how residential care providers can adapt their marketing to survive - and thrive - in the times ahead.
Access eCompetency for Care
eCompetency helps you to test the skills of your carers. Designed by social care experts, eCompetency combines interactive software technology with industry-standard assessment methods, complimenting training with the ability to test knowledge in a realistic assessment environment.
Understanding your care businesses financial health
Finance is one of the trickiest things to manage, no matter what size business. Find out how Access Workspace for Care and the apps associated with it are designed to give you a much more granular, real-time view of your finances.
Access EarlyPay – Assist Care Group
Tim Wilson, Managing Director of Assist Care Group explains how they have boosted productivity while cutting recruitment and staff turnover with Access EarlyPay.
Radfield Home Care – Access Care Compliance
Access Care Compliance is helping Radfield Home Care manage and monitor governance and risks to ensure they provide the highest quality care, whilst staying CQC compliant.
How to win social care tenders - top tips
Here are the key things you need to know to make your tender writing less stressful, less time consuming and more successful.
Looking to grow your Home Care Business?
With a steadily ageing population and many people’s desire to stay at home as they grow older, the home care sector will keep on developing and expanding.
Setting up a care business – How do I register?
The first steps of providing care is to make sure you’re registered with the regulator. But how do you do this and how do you make sure you’re fully prepared to start providing care?
Be ready for your first inspection
What will an inspection entail and how can you fully prepare for it? Our tips on making sure you are ready for when the regulator visits.
Recruiting care workers - How to get it right
Recruiting is a key part of starting up a care providing businesses, but it can be a minefield. Find out how to get it right, and what to look for when recruiting with techniques to do it.
Training your team – How to ensure your carers provide the best quality care?
Training is a key part of care, there are different techniques to do it and this blog looks at some options along with utilising an eLearning system which Access can support with.
The essential guide to creating an outstanding care plan
This guide looks at the ways in which software solutions allow you and your workforce to become more efficient, whilst keeping lines of communication open and ensuring the best quality of care for your residents. The very best care planning techniques can even help you to plan, too – whatever the future of social care looks like.
What is the real value of a mock Care Inspection?
In social care, as a regulated sector, we have an obligation to ensure that we are providing a service that is, at the very least, compliant with the standards and regulations defined in the country or countries we provide care and support.
CQC: the Key Lines of Enquiry explained
Everything you need to know about the CQC's Key Lines of Enquiry (KLOEs) and how the CQC uses them to inspect social care services in England.
What's the truth about care compliance software - what do the CQC make of it?
Care compliance software is increasingly commonplace, but what do CQC inspectors think of it and how can it impact ratings?
Your next care inspection - Stop missing out on better ratings
What lies beneath your regulator's inspections and ratings? What do you need to do to make sure you get the best rating you can at your next inspection?
Bay Care Case Study
Find out how this domiciliary care provider used software to save over £70,000 a year and gain an Outstanding rating from the CQC. As Bay Care grew, adding more clients and more carers, they realised that existing systems and paper processes were inefficient and could undermine care quality and compliance.
Elizabeth Finn Homes Case Study
With the help of Access Medication Management, Elizabeth Finn Homes have improved their care operations by reducing the risks associated with medication administration and improved their compliance and staff efficiency.
Home care and travel time pay – What is the situation?
How can you ensure your carers are paid correctly? Home care and travel time pay is an important subject, and you need to ensure that your carers are being paid correctly and above the national minimum wage. Our solutions can support this and ensure accurate pay.
Medicines in care and nursing homes - what are the risks?
What are the risks that associated with managing and administering medicines in care homes? What are the key causes? How can you prevent or reduce errors and evidence of good management?
Access Workspace for Care - Powerful apps. Total visibility. Outstanding care.
No matter how large or small your business, one thing we all want and need to know is how well it is performing. Learn about Access Workspace for Care and how it’s insights can help your make real-time, business critical decisions.
New Directions FSC
Find out how New Directions FSC have gone from paper-based information to our comprehensive care planning software. As a result, they have they improved services for the people they support and helped them to become more engaged in their care.
Access Workspace for Care – Improve operationally
How can Access Workspace for Care relieve the operation pain points in your business? What are some of those pain points and how does the data surfaced through Access Workspace for Care help solve the issues.
Electronic care records - what do they cost... or what is the price of standing still?
For many care providers, one of the first serious holes electronic records will dig them out of is being challenged that they have committed some form of serious error or malpractice. Here a couple of real-world examples.
Why is a foolproof care home handover process so important?
Handovers are an essential part of care home practice. They are one of the most important aspects of residents safety and need to be completed correctly and accurately.
