Esprit upgrade ShareCare: Direct to Version 1.0
Esprit are delighted to announce that on Friday 27th January, ShareCare: Direct was upgraded successfully from version 0.5 to version 1.0 in the East Cheshire Common Assessment Framework for Adults (CAF) Partnership area.
The upgrade has allowed the East Cheshire Common Assessment Framework for Adults (CAF) Partnership to offer a wide range of new functionally and features throughout ShareCare: Direct.
Several areas of ShareCare: Direct have been updated and adapted particularly in the ‘My Choice’ area, which allows users to submit self-assessments and make an enquiry direct to the council social care department. Version 1.0 will give users the ability to ‘access’ their social care records in real time and provide full delegated access to other trusted individuals to act on the users behalf throughout the site – a first in a local authority in England.
For a comprehensive description of the ShareCare: Direct product please contact us on:
Telephone: 01332 412200
Email: info@esprit-is.com
Thank you to the Esprit upgrade team for all their hard-work to ensure that the upgrade was rapidly implemented and a great success.
ShareCare PDS Integration goes live in Cheshire East
Following on from the Connecting for Health accreditation in December 2011, Esprit are pleased to announce that in partnership with Cheshire East Council and IBM, the ShareCare system went live with full NHS Personal Demographic Service (PDS) integration on the 3rd January 2012.
Esprit launch the ‘ShareCare: Direct’ service
Esprit is pleased to announce the availability of the ShareCare: Direct Information Gateway.
ShareCare: Direct has been specifically designed to support the personalisation of Adult Social Care by:
- Enabling citizens to easily locate up to date information and advice;
- Empowering them to make independent decisions and choices about their own care needs
- Supporting them in managing their own care provision.
- Flexible information and advice hierarchy – delivering targeted, easy to maintain advice and assistance information;
- Comprehensive and extensible resource directory – supporting a local marketplace of service providers and services, with self submission and information management;
- Local ‘MyCare’ environment – enabling users to access their own assessments, support plans, demographics and other personal data securely;
- Self assessment support – providing a range of easy to construct, on screen feedback, calculation and data capture services;
- Interactive communication – with service user ratings and comments; social networking integration (Facebook, Twitter etc), forums and consultations.
- Service integration – supporting interactive discussion between service users and professionals and on demand data exchange with case management and other systems
- Secure access – enabling secure access to a users own assessments
ShareCare: Direct are currently working with the Cheshire East Council Partnership.
For more information on ShareCare: Direct or to register for a free demonstration please:
Call: 01332 412200
Email: info@esprit-is.com
Using Technology to Improve Society
Alan Allman, who has played a pivotal role in shaping the use of ShareCare: Adult in Cheshire, has contributed to a recent feature in The Guardian on “Smarter Cities”. The article surveys a number of pathfinding technology projects, examing in this case ”…how advances in new technology can be employed to improve health and social care, education and crime prevention….”
ShareCare provides platform for many of the changes that Alan refers to in his overview of Cheshires achievements to date and their vision of the future….
“…Over the past four years, the council has developed an electronic platform costing £800,000 so that elderly people no longer have a succession of home visits to arrange care.
Instead … their details can be taken once and shared with other agencies. The result: Cheshire East estimates it is saving 20% in staff time and costs delivering services.
Before this, any carer who visited an older person would have to fill out a paper form listing personal details and health needs. If another agency also visited, they had to go through the same process. Now, the ShareCare software application, developed by Esprit and hosted by IBM, means duplication is eliminated and staff have access to people’s records on the move…“
The full text of The Guardian article can be read here http://www.guardian.co.uk/smarter-cities/smarter-cities-new-technology-social-improvements
Release of ShareCare: Adult version 2.3
The latest version of ShareCare: Adult has been released and is operational in the South West Peninsula and Cheshire. Version 2.3 incorporates a number changes to improve data integration and to improve data quality, particularly in the area of local client demographic data. New features include:
- extended support for data synchronisation with Master Patient Indexes
- integration with National Land and Property Gazeteer (NLPG) address and postcode information;
- additional address information capture for correspondence and emergency contacts;
- automated online and offline processes for identifying, linking and supressing duplicate records;
- improved ‘Consent to Share’ functionality;
- a variety of minor improvements which pave the way for integration with the NHS Personal Demographic Service (PDS) in version 3.0.
Full details of the software release are available in the ‘ShareCare: Adult What’s New Guide’ for existing customers and for everyone who subscribes to the Esprit Newsletter and email updates.
Cheshire East roll-out Supported Self Assessment and Resource Allocation Summaries
Following a succesful pilot Cheshire East Council are now extending their ShareCare online ‘Community Care Assessment’ (CCA) and ‘Resource Allocation Summary’ (RAS) services to operate across the Council.
The new service is specifically designed to encourage ‘supported self assessment’ and to make care allowances simpler to calculate using an integrated Resource Allocation Summary (RAS).
Easily updated ‘Fair Access to Care’ (FAC’s) algorithms sit behind the local Community Care Assessment and automatically calculate (RAS) care allocations based on pounds per week and pounds per annum. There is also a clear breakdown of points attained across different assessment domains based on responses to questions.
The new Community Care Assessment (CCA) integrates with the local ShareCare Health and Social Care Partnership ‘Single Assessment’ formset to enable easy, onward transfer of information to support additional assessment and care-planning activities.
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Esprit chosen to support Cheshire East Council’s CAF Demonstrator Programme
Esprit is pleased to announce that Cheshire East Council has been selected as a pilot site for the Department of Health’ CAF Demonstrator Programme.
Twenty-six ‘high quality’ expressions of interest were received for the second phase of the Common Assessment Framework (CAF) Demonstrator Programme, and Cheshire were one of only three successful bids.
Cheshire East Council is already working in partnership with Esprit on the Social Care PDS Early Adopters (SCPEA) programme and will now partner with Esprit to deliver a range of interactive, citizen focused services in support of the personalisation agenda as well as establishing a wider range of ‘ShareCare’ multi-agency assessment and information sharing processes with Health and other third sector Partner’s.
NRUC is now ContactPoint Accredited
ShareCare: Connect funcitonality has been applied to the NRUC (National Register for Unaccompanied Children) database and NRUC is now ContactPoint accredited to allow for data feeds from the national NRUC system.
This functionality through ShareCare: Connect enables Lead Practitioner, Common Assessment and Social Care involvements to be transferred automatically to the national directory.
It also enables authenticated ShareCare users, who are authorised and trained as ContactPoint users, to find out who else may be working with a child – an important ‘next step’ in the multi-agency working agenda.
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E-Government National Awards 2009 Result!
CHESHIRE FIRE AND RESCUE SERVICE WINS THE 2009 E-GOVERNMENT NATIONAL AWARD!
Congratulations to Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service from everyone at Esprit!
Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service short listed for 2009 e-Government National Awards!
The finalists for the 2009 e-Government National Awards were announced at the beginning of November with the Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service selected as one of the finalists in the ‘Innovation in strategy at a local level’ category!
The e-Government National Awards recognise excellence across eleven categories and highlight public sector innovation in using technology to enable businesses and citizens to better communicate with councils, central government, NHS and other public sector organisations. Cheshire Fire and Rescue were nominated for their ‘SpringBoard’ campaign (Starting Proactive Response, Introducing New Gains, Benefiting Older-people and Reducing Dependency).
The campaign allows potentially vulnerable or at risk adults, identified by the Fire and Rescue Service while undertaking Home Safety Assessments, along with relevant data collected during their assessment, to be seamlessly linked with local health and social care processes through the multi-agency ShareCare: Adult system.
The final award will be made in January 2010.
