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What is CareCubed? CareCubed is a secure online platform which is rapidly becoming recognised as the National Care Costing tool by both care commissioners and providers. With an ever-increasing customer base of local authorities and providers, CareCubed is a low-cost product that delivers immediate benefits and helps create a fair and sustainable market. areCubed is the only nationally recognised C digital care costing solution built on robust evidence and data. Used tactically on a dayto-day basis to support negotiations between commissioners and providers by providing a consistent, single ‘language’ for open, transparent discussions around care packages and costs, the tool offers immediate feedback on costs and a benchmark price based on the unique service or based on the needs of the individual. Figuring out the cost to deliver a wide spectrum of care packages is complex, but CareCubed has been built to handle all the variations in different cohorts, care settings, age groups, geographies and staffing to name a few. It is used daily for new placements and brokerage, reviews, and uplift processes to provide an independent benchmark which is used by providers and commissioners in a consistent manner. There are four modules currently offered as an annual subscription for care commissioners and providers: CareCubed for Working Age Adults, CareCubed for Older Persons, CareCubed for Children & Young People and CareCubed for Health. There are two licence types. A core licence, which allows unlimited users to work on the cohorts of cases within a local authority, and the place-based licence. The place-based version of the tool has the same functionality but also allows the local authority to give controlled access to care providers and health service colleagues within a single licence fee. Care providers can also purchase a licence directly, which has multiple benefits, including removing the need to keep duplicating cost of care information requests for different local authorities, talking the same language as care commissioners and reducing the business risks.
Who is using CareCubed? CareCubed is now used by 60% of all councils in England and more than 50 care providers.
CareCubed has a user group and advisory board made up of sector experts from both health and social care commissioners and providers.
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CareCubed’s clear and visually appealing outputs have helped take the heat out of negotiation. CareCubed reduces uncertainty for us as a provider, and promotes greater collaborative working with commissioners and shared accountability for changes.
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Lynsey Robertson, Director of Business Development and Programme Management, The Disabilities Trust
Maria Zazovskaya, Resource Manager for the Children & Families Placement Management Unit at The London Borough of Hackney
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Time to sign? Underpinning CareCubed is an ethos of collaborative working to provide better outcomes for clients. When new customers join CareCubed – care providers or local authorities – they are encouraged to sign up to the CareCubed Fair Price Fair Care Charter. This is an online register of organisations which are committed to working positively together for greater good. Signing the online document, which was co-designed by both local authorities and providers, demonstrates the commitment of an organisation to adhere to the principles and guidelines to engage in an open, transparent, fair, and collaborative commissioning process.
CareCubed Place-Based has been a god-send for us in Bristol! It has provided us with an intuitive solution that can be accessed by providers to submit the costings of each of their services. This has made the process quick and easy and reduce the resource required for both the council and care providers. CareCubed and our new approach has been very well received by providers.
Jonathan Wright, Strategic Commissioning Manager, Bristol City Council
• Sign up to the Charter or find out more here: www.iese.org.uk/carecubed-charter
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We want to improve the relationships with our providers which is why it is quite helpful having a robust model based on data for us to talk through and collaborate. This changes the conversation and leads to a more open, transparent, constructive discussion
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The CareCubed Community is used by more than 550 commissioners and brokers to share ideas, intelligence and collaborate across multiple councils.
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