Helen Dempster, founder of smart monitoring and alerting system provider Karantis360, explores how investing in technology can provide a solid foundation for transforming the delivery of social care through a more joined-up and holistic approach.
A topic that is certainly generating noise is that of the future of social care, a system that was already in crisis and further exacerbated by the unforeseen coronavirus pandemic.
Billions of pounds from the government’s coronavirus emergency response fund were pledged in April towards public services, including social care. Recently there was talk of taxing the over-40s to fund social care, and then came the government’s pledge of more than half a billion pounds to help people return home from hospital by funding immediate costs of care within their own home.
Without a doubt social care needs to undergo a rapid and long-term transformation, but this cannot be achieved nor sustained by simply finding more capital to fund the same broken system.
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