Across health and social care, few areas carry greater responsibility than the commissioning and oversight of complex care delivered at home and in other non-hospital settings. These are often high-cost, high-risk packages supporting people with profound needs, where failures in delivery can have life-altering or life-threatening consequences. Yet despite the scale, complexity and risk involved, ... Read more

Our latest white paper explores the growing need for stronger governance, transparency, and real-time oversight in the management of Individual Service Funds (ISFs) and Third-Party Managed Budgets (TPMBs) – particularly as personalised care packages become larger, more complex, and more central to modern health and social care. Today, commissioners are responsible for high-value, highly complex ... Read more

We can’t be alone in noticing a huge uplift in the number of local authorities and NHS bodies procuring new digital systems for health and social care – many with the ambition of supporting care at home. Procurement portals and engagement events are full of buzzwords trumpeting innovation and transformation.  Good news for Alocura, right? ... Read more

Another week, another council worrying that its social care services are in crisis. This time it was Kent County Council (KCC) warning that it was facing “significant financial challenges” and would have to scale back or delay non-statutory but vital preventative services such as early intervention – even though everyone knows that they are proved ... Read more

“I am really upset and horrified. Clearly something has gone wrong here.”  The leader of Dudley Council was talking to ITV last week about the mismanagement of one care package under their funding. He was right to order an investigation into the provider being paid £66,000 a year to support the needs of a young ... Read more

When Personal Budgets were first introduced in the early 2000s, they were designed for small, straightforward social care packages, typically supporting low-complexity needs, with an average value of around £3,000 per year. Fast forward to 2025, and the Health Secretary Wes Streeting is actually saying much the same as his counterpart did two decades ago ... Read more