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 achieves formal accreditation from NHS CfH
Esprit are pleased to announce that ShareCare has become the first social care application to achieve accreditation for integration with the NHS Personal Demographic Service (PDS).
In order to ensure that systems work correctly and safely with the NHS Care Records Service, NHS Connecting for Health (NHS CfH) operate a robust assurance regime known as the ‘Common Assurance Process’ – or CAP.
The sign off for this process known as DevMac (Development Milestone Achievement) was achieved by Esprit on the 5th December 2011.
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
Esprit release ShareCare: SEN version 3.5
Esprit has today released a comprehensive SEN solution that forms part of its ShareCare: Child suite of products.
Esprit realise that for most local authorities managing Special Educational Needs (SEN) assessments and reviews and maintaining an efficient service, is a time consuming and costly process.
ShareCare: SEN has been specifically designed to mitigate these issues. It is an easy to use, wholly web based solution, supporting comprehensive SEN case management functionality, while additionally delivering time and cost savings through a low cost software model.
ShareCare: SEN is available 24/7/365. It can be securely accessed over the Internet from any location e.g. office, home or school environment, and is specifically designed to support the full SEN business process: Referral, Assessment, Statement of Special Educational Need, Provision and subsequent monitoring through regular Progress Reviews and Management Reporting.
The SEN solution can support students at any age, or level of special educational need and can integrate with other elements of the ShareCare: Child product suite – e.g. e-CAF, ICS and Concern Tracking.
To request more information or to arrange a product demonstration at your convenience please contact:
01332 412200 or please click here
ShareCare: eCAF and SEN
Esprit is currently providing free demonstrations for local councils across the UK of the ShareCare: eCAF and ShareCare: SEN products.
ShareCare: eCAF adheres to national standards, but benefits from being easily adaptable to meet local management processes, data capture and reporting requirements.
ShareCare: SEN is a modern, fully featured product, specifically designed to improve local services and lower costs. The ShareCare: SEN system supports multi-agency data recording, and enables SEN services to operate in association with other local children’s services.
Both solutions are entirely web based operating as Software as a Service application i.e. requiring no on site hardware installation, and is low cost and rapid to implement.
To request more information or a free demonstration of either product please click here
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.
Esprit working with Local Authorities to bring Special Educational Needs support to ShareCare.
SHARECARE: CHILD TO SUPPORT COMPREHENSIVE ‘SEN’ SERVICE
Esprit is pleased to announce that development work is underway to deliver ‘Special Educational Needs’ (SEN) services through the ShareCare: Child system, enabling Local Authorities to modernise and streamline their SEN business processes.
The development programme will provide Local Authorities with a comprehensive web based management system that supports statutory assessments of special educational needs; enables statements of special educational needs to be reviewed and maintained more efficiently; and helps to reduce local service management costs.
For more information about Esprits plans for delivering SEN support tools, or to request a demonstration of ShareCare,
please email: info@esprit-is.com or call: 01332 412200.
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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