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Talking to commissioners and funders over the past few weeks, there’s one story that keeps cropping up; Lancashire County Council having to concede a judicial review regarding direct payments for care and support.  Here’s what we’ve been saying. With proper at-the-desktop oversight of individual care and support packages, most – if not all – of ... Read more

A few weeks ago, something seismic happened in the whole direct payments ecosystem. Lancashire County Council had to concede a judicial review claim that they had made unfair repayment demands, that their blanket policy of reclaiming funds was unlawful and that there had been pressure to reduce support worker pay to minimum wage. This last ... Read more

In the ever-evolving landscape of health and social care funding, the conversation often revolves around cost rather than outcomes. Funders and commissioners meticulously track transactions – what was spent, where, and with whom – while the fundamental element in the process, the care itself, is missing.  This transactional approach to monitoring funding is not just ... Read more

For care providers and funders, the Christmas and New Year period can feel like anything but the most wonderful time of the year. Staffing challenges often feel like a particularly strenuous game of Jenga: just when you think you’ve found a solution, something (or someone) falls out of place, and you’re back at square one. ... Read more

We are delighted to announce that Alocura’s groundbreaking cloud-based care management software Rostrata is now live on on the G-Cloud 14 Framework – a digital marketplace which eases the procurement of cloud services for the public sector.  From today, Rostrata will appear in Lot 2 – Cloud Software Services – of G-Cloud 14, meaning public ... Read more

Now that the dust has settled somewhat on Lord Darzi’s independent Investigation of the NHS in England, it’s been telling how many picked up on his admission that even though the social care system was outside of the formal scope of his report, Darzi thought it vital to the overall picture of the NHS. That ... Read more