Outcomes were:

• Improved quality of care
• Reduced package costs, through support reduction or change in the way support was provided
• Evidence based practice in risk assessment

Actual savings of almost £70,000 and avoidances of £47,000 were made as a direct result of the trial of 10 cases, as well as potential further savings of more than £125,000. Download the full report.

This position has been filled

However, if you want to send in your CV we will keep this on file, ready for our next recruitment run. If you fancy being our next employee, email: jr01@justchecking.co.uk including your CV and a brief explanation of why you would like to join the company. If you include previous work, links, images, Google+, Facebook or anything else, we’ll be glad to have a look!

Tunstall Healthcare Group is the leading telecare and telehealth provider in the UK and worldwide.

Tunstall Sales Director Richard Rawcliffe says…

“Just Checking is a valuable addition to our growing range of telehealthcare solutions, better supporting our customers’ short term assessments and informing longer term packages of care, identifying where telecare can offer ongoing support. Government policy is increasingly focusing on reablement, preventing re-admission to hospital and delaying the need for long term residential care. Assessment forms a vital part of delivering the services needed to support people in their own homes, and Just Checking offers a quick to install and cost effective means of assessing a person’s ability to manage in the community.”

Celia Price, Just Checking Marketing Director says…

“This partnership means Just Checking will be introduced to a greater number of health and social care organisations, where there is enormous pressure to make finite budgets work harder. A better understanding of a person’s capabilities, when they are living alone, allows practitioners to target care where it is needed, and to encourage independence when it is not.”

Just Checking will retain management of the associated web-service and helpline, and will continue to provide all product support.

Just Checking has launched a Multi-Person Kit, for supported living houses for adults with learning disabilities. The kit establishes the need (or not) for night sleeping staff, and highlights opportunities for more efficient deployment of staff, and more independence for service users.

Adults with learning disabilities services account for a quarter of all adult social care spending. With major pressure on budgets, these costly services are under scrutiny.

Warrington Borough Council recently piloted Just Checking in 6 shared houses, each with sleeping night staff, and concluded that this high level of support was not necessary. The council is now re-shaping the service, using half of the savings to invest in telecare to manage safety risks and remote night support staff who will cover all 6 houses if needed.

Download leaflet about Warrington pilot