Software for residential care
Our care home management software is the only system you need to improve standards, automate processes, and increase residents’ wellbeing. Suitable for providers of all sizes, our integrated solutions provide you with all the tools you need in one system, to deliver joined-up care, which places the individual at the centre, to make a real difference.
Providing support for every aspect of residential care management, our solutions help you to improve efficiencies and achieve greater control, make proactive real-time decisions, and give you more time to dedicate to delivering outstanding quality care.
Find the right care home management software for your care service
The Access Group has an impressive selection of care home management software which contains everything you need to improve standards, systematise processes and enhance people’s wellbeing.
Our residential care software is the most widely used system in the UK. Combine and use various platforms such as medication management, digital care plans and accurate policies and procedures specifically designed for use in care and nursing homes to reduce administrative loads and troubles on employees in all areas throughout the service.
Become more organised and have the freedom to do more by putting all of your digital care solutions in one place with our care home management software.
The most widely used residential care system in the UK
We provide end-to-end residential care home management software – from electronic care planning, visitor booking, and medication management, to policies and procedures and care training and eLearning, complete with training and support.
With powerful insights, apps, and integration capabilities, you have everything to help make real-time decisions, improve efficiencies, and minimise risk.
Access Workspace for Care includes the ability to add additional solutions, including rostering, back-office management, electronic care planning, medication management, compliance tools, visitor controls, e-Learning and more. You can make pro-active, reliable, data-driven decisions in real-time, while minimising risks.
All your digital care solutions in one place
Medication management, eMAR, pharmacy and stock control
- Minimise medicine errors - right dose, right person, right time, right medicine.
- Get immediate access to key medication information to resolve safeguarding issues and prepare for inspections.
- Easily keep track of medication stocks with inventory management tools and a direct interface with your pharmacy.
- Staff have detailed, up to date medicine information and record administration at the point of care.
Electronic care planning and care management
Record every detail and interaction with residents in one system - accessible anywhere.
- Easy to use mobile app - Record medicines, observations, activities and notes at the resident's side.
- A single integrated platform - Stop double data entry.
- Monitor key vitals with precision, including food/fluid intake, repositioning, weights and more.
- In-depth reporting: Gain internal transparency and drill down to region or individual homes.
- Easily modify digital forms and documents to fit your organisation.
Rostering, staffing and care home management
- Generate accurate payroll and invoicing, ensure safe staff levels, optimise use of your resources.
- Integrated 'clocking in' terminals: record accurate time and attendance.
- Ensuring legal staffing requirements are met - roster on multiple criteria including skills and availability.
- Monitor, control and optimise staffing agency usage and costs.
- Get open shifts filled via SMS and the Employee Portal.
- Manage sickness, holidays, training, qualifications, DBS checks and more.
Auditing, quality management and governance
- Complete library of audits for your services.
- Conduct mock inspections aligned to the CQC's Key Lines of Enquiry.
- Create manageable action plans to address any issues uncovered.
- Cited positively by CQC in many Outstanding ratings.
- Your primary Governance and Quality evidence source for UK regulators.
Comprehensive care training
- Includes Care Certificate, mandatory courses, advanced courses, management and more.
- Interactive courses available on mobile and online.
- Reports on individual and team progress, identify gaps.
- Subscribe to courses as and when needed.
- Ensure compliance with regulatory and legal training requirements.
Safe visitor management system
- Visitors can book directly online, reducing admin pressure on you.
- Control numbers of visitors, use pre-set 'buffer periods' to set a safe gap between visitors.
- Update policies and restrictions easily and instantly.
- Schedule all manner of visits including video calls.
- Ensure COVID-19 compliance while keeping residents connected with loved ones.
Policies, procedures and compliance documentation
- Access a comprehensive suite of policies and procedures needed for regulatory compliance, available on an intuitive browser-based app.
- Written by experienced social care professionals, updated regularly to reflect your nation’s regulatory changes.
- Policies and procedures are presented in an accessible, easy to understand format which can be beneficial for individuals you support.
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Care home software FAQs
What is care home software?
Care home software can cover many different types of systems specifically designed for use in care homes and nursing homes. All care home software contains a variety of to carry out, automate, or improve the processes that care homes typically carry out.
Depending on the specific system, care home software functionality can help you manage processes such as planning and delivering care, administering medicines, auditing, and recruiting and managing employees.
The most common types of software for residential care homes are:
- Electronic Care Planning systems
- Rostering systems
- eMAR/Medication Management
Why do care homes need software?
Care homes need to use software because it:
- Reduces administrative burdens on staff in all roles across the home
- Frees up time so more can be spent with residents, improving standards, recruiting staff and so on.
- Increases safety for residents and staff
- Reduces costs and wastage
- Keeps resident information secure
- Can help you deliver more person-centred care
- Helps formalise, embed and maintain process in your care home
- Collects data automatically that can be used to analyse performance and risk, identify trends so that you can make more informed decisions
- Another reason care homes need software is that the UK Government is also pushing for 80% of adult social care providers to have digital care records by 2024. This is to help make integrated health and social care a reality.
How to choose the right care home software?
Choosing the right care home software will depend upon your particular aims and challenges. General steps that will help you make the right decision include:
- Avoid a management-only approach. Involving staff from all parts of the business/organisation, will help you assess the care home software from all perspectives
- For medication management systems, or eMAR, check if the system can interface with the one used by your pharmacist
- Likewise, for care planning systems for care homes, you will want a medication management system that can integrate with it
- Scalability: Pick a system that can cope with the growth of your organisation, or can be rolled out to all of your care homes. Can the supplier show you they have been able to do this elsewhere
- Think what’s best not what is cheapest. Although budget is always a factor don’t be swayed too much by price differences. The cost of implementing, removing and replacing a flawed system is much greater than the cost of a superior design that you can rely on for years.
