Why you need a specialist social care IT partner

HAVING recently returned from a large regional care exhibition it always amazes me how any many care group owners simply look up and walk past the stand without asking about what’s new in the world of IT and IT services for the social care sector.

We do of course understand that everyone has an IT supplier or in-house IT function and lets be honest, IT is not exactly the most exhilarating topic in the world of healthcare.

But having an IT partner who specialises in social care will deliver on-going insights into not just the latest technologies and IT services but how your peers and competitors are using them to improve efficiency, service and security.

Below are three examples where we differentiate from your average IT provider: n More and more local authority tenders require you to evidence that you have a managed IT service to ensure your systems remain secure at all times.

Whilst most IT providers say they can do this, we understand the individual complexities of a care group from your back office users, to chefs on iPads, residents streaming on their TV’s to nurses using mobile devices and how to keep them all secure, connected to the WIFI and DSPT compliant. n We are seeing more and more care groups diversify into other CQC / Care Inspectorate regulated areas such as specialist education which requires a different set of IT services to your care home. n We are seeing many care groups acquiring new locations in different parts of the country and finding their previously local IT provider just not having the UK reach needed to offer the same service level agreements as they do at your head office. Call Simon Darlington on 0333 016 5090, email simon.darlington@workplaceit.co.uk or visit

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