Sharing Success with CareCubed

IESE'S CARE COMMISSIONING TOOL CARECUBED HOSTED TWO USER FORUMS IN FEBRUARY - ONE FOR COMMISSIONERS AND ONE FOR CARE PROVIDERS.

CareCubed is iESE's secure online tool designed to give clarity on the cost of care and help manage care spend. The successor to iESE's Care Funding Calculator, the product has been well received since its introduction and its user base continues to grow.

By inputting information about an individual's care needs and other details, such as the location of the care setting, the model data allows a guide price to be generated as starting point for negotiation between the care provider and commissioner, and as a baseline for assessing the impact of changes in cost or need.

The product has seen a general increase in take up, including by care providers. "We are delighted that care providers are increasingly seeing the benefits that CareCubed can give in terms of transparency and structuring costs and how this can help them work better with care commissioners to get a fair price agreed for specialist care placements," said Vanda Leary, Digital Business Lead at iESE. The whole-day events, which took place on the 26th and 27th February in London, were well attended. The forums included presentations from existing users about their successes using CareCubed and gave attendees the chance to learn from each other's experiences. Attendees also heard from iESE about potential future developments of CareCubed and were given the chance to provide their input on these. CareCubed is already available for adult and children’s specialist placements, and expansion to cover older persons, health placements, and a wider range of children’s placements is due in 2020.

• Find out more: www.iese.org.uk/carecubed