9 April 2024

What are the benefits to care providers in implementing a digital social care record (DSCR) system?


If you work in the care sector and are reading this, you're probably aware that the UK government is urging care providers to adopt a Digital Social Care Record (DSCR) system by 2024. But what advantages come with implementing a DSCR system, and how can you obtain the necessary funding?  

 

In this blog, Johan Jardevall, CEO at Person Centred Software, a market leader in care management software and provider of the UK's most widely used DSCR system, explains everything you need to know. 

 

A digital social care record (DSCR) system is software used by care providers to replace traditional paper records with digital ones (digital social care records). A DSCR system to manage digital social care records has become essential for operating and managing a successful care organisation and offers many benefits.  

 

The benefits: why care providers need to embrace the shift  

 

Going digital will give care providers more time to care, more time with residents doing the things they enjoy and reduce the burden of onerous yet essential administrative tasks; it can also have the following benefits:

  

  • Free up time for care staff and managers 
  • Play an essential role in joining up health and care services, with real-time information being shared with authorised individuals across the health and care sector 
  • Benefit people with multiple conditions, as they won't have to repeat their needs to numerous people across different organisations 
  • Allow care staff to record real-time information about the care that is being provided 
  • Save clinicians time and help to deliver better, safer care for people by increasing consistency, reducing risk, and shortening the length of hospital stays 
  • Stop people from falling into the gaps between health and social care and ensure that everyone receives the right care in the right place at the right time  
  • Help ensure that care providers are aware of when people's needs change to enable a quick response 
  • Minimise risks such as medication errors, dehydration or missed visits 
  • Assist in managing and supporting staff to do their jobs effectively and efficiently 
  • Provide the ability to compare and use data to improve people's care 
  • Enable easy storage of care notes, requiring less physical space 
  • Help to share information quickly and safely 
  • Help care providers who use services to access residents' care records more easily 
  • Allow care providers instant access to a person's information and preferences, which enables them to provide responsive and person-centred care. 

 

Care providers can deliver care more efficiently and effectively using a digital social care record system. Services will become more accessible and person-centred, improving the lives of those receiving and providing care. 


Find out more about Person Centred Software & book a FREE Demo (PCS).


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Social care funding for digital care records: How can the West Midlands Care Association (WMCA) Digital Team help with funding?  

 

The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) is providing funding to social care providers through the 'Adult Social Care Digital Transformation Fund' during 2023/24. 

 

The WMCA Digital Team have already helped many care providers apply for funding, and we host a variety of virtual and in-person training and events across the West Midlands. Find out here about our upcoming sessions.


Find out more about WMCA Digital Care.

 

  


 


 


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