Care technology.
Honest advice on technology in care.
For providers and commissioners in health, social care and housing who want technology that earns its place. Vendor-independent, evidence-led and in plain English, delivered through Creating Better with UK Telehealthcare. It is the part of the business the sector already knows us for, and it stays exactly as sharp as it was.
Who this is for.
A provider choosing technology.
A care home group, a housing association or a home care provider with a decision to make and a market full of people who want to sell you something.
A commissioner building a case.
A council, health board or integrated care system that needs the evidence, the business case and the procurement done properly, and defended afterwards.
A service that has bought it and now has to make it work.
The kit is in, the contract is signed, and the staff are not using it. What went wrong, and what it takes to put right.
People and place.
What we do.
People and place.
Platforms.
Sensors and devices.
Data and evidence.
Start with the person and the home, not the kit. What they need, what the place allows, and what the people around them can support.
Which platform, what it does well, what it does not, and how it fits with the systems you already run. Independent of every vendor.
The right sensor for the job, and no more of them than the job needs. What they measure, what they miss, and what they cost to keep going.
What the data can tell you, what it cannot, and how to turn it into decisions rather than dashboards nobody opens.
Evaluation and business case.
Procurement and vendor selection.
Adoption and change.
The evidence for what worked and what it was worth, built to HM Treasury Green Book standards with Colligo Labs, so the case survives the finance director.
A specification that says what you actually need, a shortlist that is genuinely independent, and a contract you can hold a supplier to.
The part most projects skip. Staff who understand why, families who trust it, and a service that keeps using it after the launch fuss dies down.
Who we work with.
We are independent of every supplier, and that includes the people below. These are partners we know and trust and bring in when the work needs them, not a closed list. If a job needs a different platform, a different installer or a different set of numbers, we say so, and we go and find it.
UK Telehealthcare
The care technology work is delivered through Creating Better with UK Telehealthcare, where Harry is Head of Consulting Services. That gives clients the reach of a national membership body and the attention of a small practice.
Colligo Labs
Where a business case needs proper evidence, we work with Colligo Labs on social return on investment, geographic analysis and HM Treasury Green Book methodology. The numbers are theirs, the plain English is ours.
GBR Digital Health
When the decision is made and the kit has to go in, GBR Digital Health puts it there. Nationwide installation, maintenance and analogue to digital migration, working with every brand of equipment rather than pushing one.
How an engagement starts.
A conversation, without a pitch and without a supplier in the room. Half an hour on what you are trying to do, what you have already, and whether we can help. If it makes sense we agree a first piece of work with a clear scope and a clear end, whether that is a strategy, an evaluation, a procurement or getting something already bought to actually work.