The future is bright for CareCubed

It is a real privilege to introduce our latest edition of Transform following structural changes to the senior management of iESE Innovation Ltd, with myself taking up the role of Commercial Director and Sherif Attia becoming Director of Delivery & Design. This has been another hugely successful year for iESE in which we have supported more councils, Integrated Care Boards, and providers than ever before with the significant, ongoing pressures and challenges they face.

CareCubed has gone from strength-to-strength and is now well established as the national care costing tool of choice, with around 65 per cent of councils in England now subscribing. I am also very pleased to welcome our first Welsh authorities to our user base to support with a wide array of local, regional, and national challenges and objectives. Having a single, consistent, common currency for health & social care commissioners and care providers is crucial to allow strategic partnerships to be built and reduce the negotiation time on care packages so that more time can be spent delivering positive outcomes for residents.

There have been lots of highlights over the past 12 months, such as the move into new territories, the launch of our new CareCubed website, great success reported from our first health users of the tool, significant adoption of the children’s and young persons and older persons CareCubed modules, and two data updates to provide the very latest data to our customers. CareCubed continues to innovate and bring new functionality based on feedback from both care providers and commissioners and this has led to the tool being used in many new ways such as large-scale procurement processes, place-based regional initiatives to provide consistency across health and social care organisations, and all-age commissioning.

We are a not-for-profit for the good of the sector. Our goal remains to deliver high impact, innovative digital tools, and maximum value to the sector, and we will be releasing exciting new products and services over the coming months. We have significantly strengthened our team to underpin this next phase of growth, with a particular focus on bringing sector experience and expertise to support new and existing customers with embedding the tool and to accelerate the benefits it brings.

CareCubed is playing a crucial role in creating a fair and sustainable market and this edition will highlight innovative case study examples from across the sector. Please do get in touch if we can support in any way.

Craig White, Commercial Director. To contact Craig, please email: craig.white@iese.org.uk