CareCubed Can Help Renegotiate Emergency Care Packages

THE FINANCIAL PRESSURE BEING PLACED ON COUNCILS AND CARE PROVIDERS BY COVID-19 COULD LEAVE MANY AT BREAKING POINT.

Many emergency placements have been made to enable patients to be discharged to social care settings from hospital to free up beds within the NHS. The care packages being delivered have also changed with service users needing to be socially distanced and with providers facing greater demand for certain products and services such as assistive technology and a massive increase in PPE costs.

Craig White, Business Development Manager at iESE, said: "These placements will need to be revisited, reconciled and renegotiated as we move forward to ensure the best care for the individual is provided and at a fair price. We will support customers through this because the financial pressures felt by all involved are significant and already stretched budgets could leave many councils and providers at breaking point. Every day and week that goes by without this reconciliation happening is critical and will translate into devastating consequences for all involved."

He said iESE had received multiple examples from customers about the benefits of having a tool such as iESE's flagship digital product CareCubed ® to document the care packages agreed, the correct price and consideration of how this splits between councils and Clinical Commissioning Groups.

iESE is already engaging commissioners and providers in online workshops designed to share ideas. "The workshops will direct our short-term development roadmap and see iESE investing in further development to CareCubed aimed at specifically helping with COVID-19 related issues both now and in the months and years ahead."

New Business Development Manager: Craig White Craig White joined iESE in October 2019 as Business Development Manager and will provide strategic sales leadership going forward. His initial focus is on growing and supporting the customer base of CareCubed ® .

He brings more than 20 years' experience building software businesses and providing innovative solutions that make a real difference to all parts of the public sector. His knowledge and learning will feed into and help shape our future strategy.

“I am excited to be taking up this role and diving straight into helping health and social care organisations through these very challenging times with a proposition that is low cost, quick to implement and offers significant and measurable immediate benefits to the sector,” he said.

● You can contact Craig at: craig.white@iese.org.uk