This programme is funding projects that will help the social care sector respond to COVID-19 and its aftermath.
The projects will demonstrate how data analytics can be used to improve social care and help to catalyse further change in the social care data analytics system by sharing findings and methods with our community of practice.
We're supporting five teams across the UK, with each team receiving up to £60,000 for projects that will run for up to 12 months.
The Health Foundation launched a new programme aiming to fund exemplar projects that demonstrate how data analytics can be used to improve social care.
COVID-19 is having a profound impact on people needing and using care, and their carers. Analysis is urgently needed to help us understand the problems they are facing and the actions that need to be taken, ahead of a possible resurgence in the virus.
The Health Foundation has explored the key challenges the social care sector is facing in the COVID-19 era. We have hosted workshops with people who use care services, carers, providers, care technology developers, local authorities, researchers, and membership bodies for providers and for front-line staff. Participants came from England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, from domiciliary care and residential care, and included adults with a range of ages, needs and experiences.
Our workshops identified three key priorities:
We wanted to support social care providers and commissioners to tackle these problems using innovative data analytics. In some cases, this may require new data collections to be made.
The pandemic has revealed major weaknesses in the social care data system. These problems made it harder for the country to respond to outbreaks and to support carers to provide care during the pandemic, and ultimately led to avoidable suffering for our most vulnerable people.
We have supported teams to demonstrate the effective use of data analytics in social care, and to share their learning with other social care analytics teams, including through our community of practice.
The Strengthening Social Care Analytics programme has been evaluated by SQW, and you can find the report outlining their findings below.
This project aims to improve the quality of social care for cohorts of people that experience the worst outcomes. Using detailed data analytics, it will investigate the efficacy and reach of care that...
This project aims to strengthen and add value to the contribution that analytics bring to improved effectiveness, efficiency and client outcomes. Will shape and present otherwise disparate data source...
Project that is aiming to develop a better understanding of lived experience to identify what caring elements create the best possible quality of life for people with a learning disability.
Project that is aiming to demonstrate the value of quality, open data and show the impact that transparent and open tendering has on the quality of a social care service and the experience of people g...
Project aiming to address workforce challenges by increasing the amount and quality of workforce data available to decision-makers, in particular commissioners of adult social care services.
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