“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

Now we’ve had a week or so to digest the government’s 10-Year Health Plan for England, we’re surer than ever at Alocura that our end-to-end cloud based platform for care commissioners and health care providers, Rostrata, can be at the very heart of what is an ambitious and necessary vision for the future of the ... Read more

How would you like to see what a real care budget summary looks like? Or put more correctly should look like? Open this document, then. It’s real data our care management software Rostrata has generated, but don’t worry, we’ve anonymised and redacted anything attributable to a real person. The reason you’ll click on it will ... Read more

With so many pressures on delivering care in out-of-hospital settings, it often feels like as long as a package of care is agreed and funded, then the case, so to speak, is closed. On to the next person in the queue… And yet this does nothing, really, for the person who needs care – apart ... Read more

For too long, personal health budgets and high-value care packages have operated in a trust-based vacuum. Commissioners allocate substantial sums – sometimes exceeding £20,000 a year per package – with limited visibility into how care is actually delivered. It’s no surprise to us that bodies such as HMRC have begun to investigate the way in ... Read more