Cura debunks these myths and explains why technology is not as challenging as it seems

Myth #1: Technology will take over caregiving, leaving human caregivers jobless.

The need for human touch to be digitally supported has taken on a more challenging dimension as staff shortages and high vacancy rates are significantly impacting the quality of care. Digital solutions such as Cura are not designed to replace caregivers but rather to empower them.

Myth #2: Technology is extremely difficult to implement

We understand the perception that often hinders the adoption of technology but unlike other digital solutions, Cura is designed to be highly intuitive and user-friendly and is committed to delivering a seamless implementation process. By choosing the right digital system, leveraging training and support resources, and adopting a change management approach, care providers can reap the enormous benefits that technology offers.

Cura makes technology work for you, not the other way around.

Myth #3: Technology is not cost-effective

While the initial costs associated with going digital can be a concern, it is important to consider the long-term benefits, leading to significant cost savings over time. Cura, for example, is a proactive tool that provides numerous benefits, such as savings in time and cost, a boost to productivity, and ultimately, improved outcomes.

Myth #4: Technology is only for large facilities

It is not just the large homes that benefit from going digital. Cura supports all types and sizes, whether that be a small family-run care home, a larger care provider, end-of-life care, or a specialised care provider to service users with more challenging care requirements such as children with wide-ranging care needs, dementia, learning difficulties, autism, mental health, end-of-life, challenging behaviour, substance abuse and brain injury.

Myth #5: Technology is a learning labyrinth

The word “technology” often elicits fear, particularly in senior caregivers and staff who may be intimidated due to a lack of familiarity. You will be amazed at how a graduated, tailored for the needs of care givers, coupled with intuitive, simple-to-use technology such as Cura, leaves them enthused about handling some of the major challenges they encounter day in and day out. Supported by the kind of training that sensitively imparts the skills required, you will be surprised by how simple it is to go digital.

Myth #6: Technology compromises privacy and security

Concerns about data privacy and security are paramount, especially when entrusting sensitive information to care technology. At Cura, we adhere to the security standards laid down by the NHS (National Health Service).

Cura servers are hosted by the world’s most secure site – Microsoft’s Azure platform. Our servers are also backed up daily. 

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Cura Enhances Delivery of Complex Care Needs

Cura Systems, Complex CareLet's face it...caring for people with complex care needs is complicated.  We do not need to add further hassle by going digital with software that is not specifically designed for complex care. 

Gone are the days of one-size-fits-all systems. You deserve a system that best suits the unique demands of complex care situations and puts you in control of every aspect of your going-digital journey.

Cura offers a long-term solution to empowering caregivers with its highly configurable risk and capacity assessments, personalised care plans with detailed recording of daily care, reminders and alerts, including a personalised management dashboard, integrated roster, next of kin and staff apps.

Cura understands the intricacies of complex care; we are specialists. Don't just take our word for it – experience the difference for yourself and discover how our expertise becomes your advantage.

We are confident that Cura will truly match your demanding needs, and here’s what’s in store for you:

  • Innovative Interface - designed to allow users the freedom to design their own forms and care plans, unconstrained by icons and fixed formats.
  • Bespoke Configuration - Cura is adaptable to the unique requirements of each care setting to align perfectly with your workflow and specific needs, providing unparalleled flexibility.
  • Detailed Incident Reporting - designed to facilitate accurate and timely recording of even the most severe incidents in a simple and guided way.
  • Customisable Management Dashboards - designed to simplify your data into easy-to-understand visual information that points to trending highs & lows and where action is required. 
  • Supports PBS - equipped with user-definable care plan structures to provide for intricate care plans and care planning processes Positive Behaviour Support
  • Cura Roster with Smart Routing - enables greater productivity and staff retention through better planning.
  • …and a lot more!

Having successfully implemented Cura in so many complex care situations, we understand the challenges of digital transformation. Our dedicated team of experts ensures a smooth transition from onboarding to full-scale implementation.

If you would like to know more about how our customers have successfully implemented Cura, simply call us on 020 3621 9111 or email us at info@cura.systems 

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Cura’s Change Management Approach to Going Digital

Cura Systems, Change Management, Going DigitalTechnology is revolutionising businesses across a wide range of industries, and the social care sector is no exception. The word “digital” often elicits fear, particularly in social care settings where caregivers may feel intimidated by a lack of familiarity and perceive the digital transformation process as complex, challenging and daunting. 

Change management plays a pivotal role in addressing these concerns, ensuring smooth transitions, successful implementation processes and empowering individuals to embrace digital solutions. It involves a structured approach to guide care teams to understand their fears and how to overcome them through fostering a culture of openness, and provide the necessary support and resources for successful adoption. 

Cura's Change Management Approach

Having successfully implemented Cura in so many challenging situations, we understand the challenges of digital transformation and offer an effective change management approach to help care providers successfully transition to digital. This approach includes the following key elements:

  • Training materials and resources - Cura recognises the need of empowering care teams with the skills and knowledge to effectively utilise the system. By providing readily available resources, Cura ensures immediate access to information and support whenever the need arises, boosting their confidence and competence in using digital care systems. This includes user guides, video tutorials, FAQs, and access to an online knowledge base.
  • Excellent Customer Support – Cura consistently delivers exceptional customer support with real people (not Bots!) and continue to provide a service level that is unique to every customer. We take pride in providing a proactive, human customer service experience that is a lot faster than chatbot, email and interactive voice response. 

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Cura’s Fluid Tracking Ensures Optimal Hydration

Cura Systems, Fluid BalanceAs we age, we are more vulnerable to dehydration and fluid imbalances. This is particularly true for elderly people in care homes who may struggle to maintain appropriate hydration because of mobility or cognitive difficulties. Serious health issues such as kidney damage, urinary tract infections, and even death can result from dehydration. On the other hand, excessive hydration can result in water intoxication, which can also have detrimental effects. Accurate and timely tracking of fluid intake and outflow is crucial in ensuring service users’ hydration is met and dealt with right away.

Fluid Balance Monitoring

To address the issue of hydration, many care providers now consider implementing a monitoring tool to keep track of the fluid balance. A specialised digital system for complex care such as Cura with features like fluid intake and output tracking, fluid balance monitoring, and daily fluid balance charts is one way to monitor and manage service user's fluid intake and output.

Here are just some of the features:

  • Calculate the total fluid intake within a defined 24-hour to 120-hour period - caregivers can ensure service users are receiving the appropriate amount of fluids to maintain optimal hydration levels.
  • Diet and Fluid Monitoring Chart - provides a visual representation of a service user's diet, fluid intake and output for a given day, allowing caregivers to quickly identify any imbalances or changes in nutritional and hydration status.
  • Daily target intake – you can set daily fluid intake targets and record all outputs for each service user based on their individual needs ensuring each service user is accurately receiving the appropriate amount of fluids.
  • Record all outputs – record all outputs for each service user, including urine and stool output.
  • History data - provides a complete picture of the service user's fluid balance and helps identify any potential issues with hydration levels.
  • Alerts and notifications – alerts caregivers when a service user’s daily fluid intake has not been and falls outside the normal range. This would allow caregivers to respond quickly and adjust their care plan.
  • …and a lot more!

Cura means Care…. bringing you peace of mind and confidence when managing the health and well-being of service users while delivering person centred care and long-term support.

Providing complex care requires a high level of support and Cura will truly match such demanding needs! If you would like to have a no-obligations, quick look at Cura, please contact us on 020 3621 9111or email at info@cura.systems for an on-line demo. 

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Cura Roster…helps boost staff engagement and retention!

Cura Roster, Workforce SystemImplementing an effective rostering system can have a significant impact on staff and caregivers.  Well-managed scheduling practices are more likely to create a positive work environment that fosters job satisfaction and boost staff morale, productivity, and retention rates. 

High turnover rates are very costly, and the cost is not just financial! When an employee leaves, it takes vital time and resources to hire and train a new joiner. Other staff invariably need to take on additional responsibilities, leading to increased workload, disengagement, and potential burnout.

If you are looking for a better (digital) rostering system that can help improve employee engagement and retention, here are a few things to consider:

  • A highly configurable workflow process and ability to filter the roster to your requirements.
  • A system that is specifically designed to handle complex care situations.
  • Flexible and scalable – provides the ability to add or remove features as needed, to scale the system up or down to meet your needs, and to integrate with other tools and systems.
  • Provide robust reporting to track and make data driven decisions about resource allocation.
  • Requires minimal training and implementation effort with an attractive and easy-to-use interface.
  • Strong security measures are in place and are compliant with GDPR.

Cura Roster is here to help!

Designed for the care sector, Cura Roster has a user-friendly interface, including “drag and drop” and alternative planning views to provide a simple way to allocate suitable caregivers to shifts and evidence staffing compliance.  

Cura Roster enables flawless management of staff rosters; in conjunction with Cura Angel, a mobile based app that allows care staff to see and confirm their shifts, etc. It provides tools and features to manage staff schedules efficiently and effectively, ensuring that you always have the right number of staff available to provide the necessary care for your service users.

Service Providers can use more advanced functions to assist in planning staffing requirements and build a roster that will help schedule the correct number of staff, required roles and skills needed for the service to work efficiently and safely, in single or multiple sites.

Here are some of the new features:  

  • Enable delegation of rota management.
  • Simplify Scheduling – create rotas with a few clicks, by location.
  • Avoid over/under staffing due to scheduling conflicts and fill empty shifts. 
  • Drag and drop shift allocations. 
  • Better visibility of caregiver workload using colour-coded shifts. 
  • ...and a lot more!

Cura Care Management Systems contain a rich set of tools and features, and we are committed to bringing further innovations to benefit service providers. Cura is ready to support every home and ready to make a positive change to care delivery.

If you would like to have a no-obligations, quick look at Cura, please contact us on 020 3621 9111or email at info@cura.systems for an on-line demo. 

 

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CQC State of Care Annual Report 2021/2022

The State of Care reportpresents the insights, trends and themes from inspection activity findings, information from the public and those who deliver care, and other evidence. 

The main message is that the health and care system is ‘gridlocked and unable to operate effectively’, which means people are stuck – services are finding it very difficult to get and keep the right number of staff with the right skills to meet people’s needs. 

Now more than ever, staff shortages and high vacancy rates are significantly impacting the quality of care. Care homes are short staffed, care givers feel burnout and managers suffer the administrative burden of bridging the growing gaps.  

Cura empowers the care workforce in complex care settings 

The challenge of how staffing levels can be optimised has never been more critical.  Having an appropriate care management system in place is crucial not only to service users’ safety; it also plays a vital role in ensuring the right information and other critical data are on hand to enable planning for the right people in the right places.  

A specialised digital system like Cura can improve the efficiency of care and help move away from reactive to proactive approaches. Cura’s aim is to empower the carer, freeing them from tedious paperwork to focus on service users and to ensure that every action is recorded and compliant with the CQC regulations.  

Cura Roster, in conjunction with Cura Angel enables flawless scheduling of staff; Cura Angel is a mobile based care app that allows care staff to see and confirm their shifts and other updates, etc. The module comprises a user-friendly interface, including “drag and drop” and alternative planning views to provide a simple way to allocate suitable staff to shifts and evidence staffing compliance.  

Here are some of the new features:  

  • Enable delegation of rota management  
  • Broadcast vacant shifts 
  • Simplify Scheduling – create rotas with a few clicks, by location  
  • Avoid over/under staffing due to scheduling conflicts and fill empty shifts  
  • Drag and drop shift allocations  
  • Better visibility of caregiver workload using colour-coded shifts  
  • Clock In’ functionality to show location sensitive attendance  
  • GPS/Facial recognition support for attendance evidencing  

In a recent statement, Kate Terroni, Chief Inspector of Adult Social Care, Integrated Care and Interim Chief Operating Officer, said: 

“In this report, we’ve highlighted examples of local innovation – joining up these pockets of innovation has the potential to help unblock the gridlock. However, this can only happen in conjunction with a real focus on planning, investment, and workforce.” Read more… 

The time is now to invest in a digital workforce system! Given the complex nature of caregiving and its changing demands, the need for digitally driven care is vital to strengthen the workforce; increase staff retention, identify skills gaps, savings in time and cost, boost productivity and ultimately improve outcomes. 

Cura Systems are equipped with a rich set of tools and features, and we are committed to bringing further innovations to benefit all involved in the provision of care. Cura is ready to support every home and ready to make a positive change to care delivery. 

Technology is clearly pushing the boundary towards better care and Cura Systems is proud to be at the forefront of this change. We provide care homes providing complex care needs with the secure tools and support to achieve and evidence their CQC compliance and delivery of best of breed care.  

If you are not yet using Cura within your care setting, it’s a good time to go paperless and reap significant benefits. Find out what you’re missing, contact us on 020 3621 9111 or visit our website at https://cura.systems/ to see the most feature rich care home software in the market today. 

Cura makes complex care more manageable

The onset of Covid has brought about a greater reliance on digital tools and care providers have had to adopt new technology to ensure continuity of care. This is further exacerbated by pressure from Social Care authorities to adopt digital records as a high priority.

A care system that encourages and enables improved communication, better allocation of resources, real-time access to a full set of care data and greater access to resident’s information will benefit everyone involved in all aspects of care and administration. 

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Cura takes the management of complex care to a whole new level. It leads to a higher degree of service user satisfaction and plays a significant role in delivering safer care and improvement in care outcomes.

Cura is a specialised digital care home software designed for complex care situations. Cura can make a significant difference, for example, monitoring service users’ conditions accurately and in real-time by using customisable assessments and truly person-centred care plans, specifically designed for those providing care to service users with severe dementia, challenging behaviour, mental health, palliative care, long-term chronic illnesses and those with autism and/or learning difficulties. Cura also provides a sophisticated, highly developed incident reporting tool designed to facilitate accurate and timely records of even the most severe incidents in a simple guided way. Tools are available to highlight events, persons, times of day and locations that increase the risk of incident occurrence.

"Cura incident reporting really is a great tool and will make a huge difference to the people we support. The ease we have of reviewing the incidents as they are logged and the central monitoring will only enhance our ability to analyse and resolve the issues we see. I look forward to seeing how we can develop even more with Cura by our side." - Anthony Birmingham Service Manager, Positive Individual Proactive Support

Cura has clearly established itself as a market leader in digital transformation specialising in complex care settings. In fact, a large majority of Cura customers are focused on complex care and have gained the best value from their investment.

Some of the most popular features in Cura used by our Complex Care Providers

  • User definable care plan structures to provide for intricate care plans and care planning processes definable to support PBS
  • Flexible, highly detailed when required, note recording, tying in with care plans providing the right information at the right time and in the right place. Cura uses multiple data entry methods to enable rapid note completion.
  • Detailed, configurable incident/accident & restraint recording and reporting, either user defined or using standard tools such as Price
  • Meal planner – caregivers help service users choose their meals based on their dietary requirements and restrictions such as allergens.
  • Fluids chart - Inadequate fluid intake is a major contributor to risks. You can set individual intake targets and record all outputs per service user.
  • Auditable bed turning, night visits, incident report and wound management modules – Can be linked to automatically feed into caregivers' daily activities lists and ensure such essential functions are performed on a timely basis.
  • Drag and drop form builder – allows user to create truly customisable and personalised forms
  • …and a lot more!

Cura means Care…. bringing you peace of mind and confidence when managing the health and well-being of service users while delivering person centred care and long-term support. Providing complex care requires a high level of support and a fully integrated care management system such as Cura will truly match such demanding needs.

Cura’s Response to the Health Secretary’s speech at the HSJ Digital Transformation Summit

The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic and shortage of staff have amplified demands for technology solutions to augment care.   We have seen regulatory authorities in the social care sector urging care providers to adopt the use of technology as a tool not only to connect to everyone in the care ecosystem but also to improve the way care is delivered; improve the admission process, medication management, documentation of service users’ records, and sharing of vital information. It is also evident that care homes can gain much greater assurance when processes and procedures are alerted at the appropriate time, monitored and reported in a timely manner.

Digital Care Systems

At the recent Health Service Journal's Digital Transformation Summit,  Health Secretary Sajid Javid in his speech set out a digital agenda to harness digital transformation in the social care sector.  He outlined four priorities to use the power of digital to drive a new era of recover and reform: ensuring the NHS is set up properly to succeed, levelling throughout the NHS and social care, pursuing personalisation, and making big breakthrough bets on emerging technologies and data.

“Digital transformation is not something that you can delegate. It must be led from the front,” Sajid says, who believes electronic patient records are the essential prerequisite for a modern, digital NHS and without them, we cannot achieve the full potential for reform.” Link to Gov.UK website

Javid also announced that he wants to accelerate the roll rollout of vital records with a new approach to hit 90% coverage by December next year. Sajid Javid said: “Everywhere I went I saw incredible examples of how digital technologies are already transforming health and care for the better.

“I want to see a particular focus on social care, where around 40% of providers are still grappling entirely with paper-based records. So, want to see all social care providers adopt a digital social care record.”

The outbreak has illustrated the vital role of service providers to create a safe, caring, effective, responsive and well-led environment; however, without the support of technology, it makes care so much more difficult to deliver. Clearly, technology changes the way we live and work by using care apps and digital care devices such as Cura’s suite of applications.

Cura, an intuitive care management system is supporting efforts to equip each home with a tech-driven solution and a digitally conscious care environment. Cura care systems are equipped with a rich set of tools and features and committed to bringing further innovations to benefit all involved in the provision of care.

We are all required to adjust to the new normal and prepare ourselves for similar future pandemics and global emergencies. We are now living in a time where embracing technology seems to be the best option to deliver better quality outcomes.

Cura will continually bring care to the next level by working towards more innovative ways in the advancement of technology.

Find out how we can support you on your digital transformation journey by booking an on-line demonstration. Contact us on 020 3621 9111 or email at info@cura.systems.

Cura’s Digital Tools for Covid-19

The Coronavirus pandemic has changed our world and we have had to learn new ways to cope in an incredibly difficult environment. We are now living in a time where embracing technology seems to be the best option to deliver better quality outcomes and Cura Systems is proud to be at the forefront of this change.

FREE Digital Tools for Covid-19

Cura offers these secure tools for FREE when you avail our fully-integrated, easy-to-use care management system to support caregivers deliver better and safer care during and beyond the covid-19 outbreak.

  • Cura Kinmobile care monitoring app that allows designated family members to stay in touch with the home and their loved ones
  • Cura Angel - mobile care app that assists caregivers in other areas such as, training, reading documents and gives them a secure communication channel whilst they are away from the care home.
  • Cura Clock In tablet based app to enable staff, residents, next-of-kin and visitor’s to clock in and out from any android device
  • Cura‘s Video Meeting Tool– enables you to call family and friends of service users to overcome some part of the loss of physical contact.

Cura means care...and we care as much for you, as you do for your service users.  Cura is ready to support every home and ready to make a positive change in your care delivery.

If you would like to have a no-obligations, quick look at Cura, please contact us on 020 3621 9111 or email at info@cura.systems for an on-line demo.

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