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Health and social care are constantly evolving, and no single organisation has all the answers.
By working alongside our clients on some of the toughest challenges, we’ve gained unique insights into what really drives meaningful change.
This space brings together our latest thinking: practical ideas, real examples, and proven approaches that are already delivering impact across the sectors.
Here you’ll find articles written by our consultants and partners, sharing perspectives that might help as you navigate similar challenges.
If you’d like to explore any of these ideas further, we’d love to talk.
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Digital social care: What does good looks like for adult social care?
People need joined-up services, that are designed to work together, to help them face complex societal challenges. Joining up is difficult because staff can lack the data, tools, skills and capacity to deliver the quality of services that they aspire to. Nowhere is this truer than in adult social care (ASC), where pressure on staff is huge and the opportunity to alleviate some of that, using a digital approach has not yet been taken.
Using digital to super-charge support for unpaid carers in the UK social care sector
Channel³'s Dr Emma Garland outlines the well-known challenges faced by health and social care systems in providing the right support at the right time to unpaid carers and suggests using digital to supercharge their approach.
Building a preventative model of care through digital transformation
The Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) Spring Seminar 2024 kicks off this week, showcasing a packed agenda filled with promise.
The importance of cultural change in digital transformation
Channel³'s Dr Emma Garland outlines the importance of putting people at the heart of digital transformation to maximise your chances of success.
Ed Balls shining a light on adult social care
Whatever your political persuasion, credit should go to Ed Balls for shining a light on the frontline challenges facing adult social care in his recent BBC programme. Far better to lean in and experience it first-hand than deliver unhelpful soap box speeches about ‘fixing’ social care.
Delivering digital productivity, a cause for optimism in healthcare
Maximising the financial and operational impact from your digital investment is a must for any organisation or ICS. At Channel³ we help organisations get the very best out of their digital investment, identifying potential savings of over £15 million.
Electronic Patient Records (EPR) Part 2: Making EPR everyone’s business
Our second article on how Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Trust is preparing for a transformative shift to Electronic Patient Records (EPR)
Electronic patient records (EPR): laying the foundations for success
How Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Trust is preparing for a transformative shift to Electronic Patient Records (EPR)
Digitally enabling lives in social care: what we learned at ADASS Spring Seminar
As both the main sponsor and enthusiastic participants of the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) Spring Seminar, Ralph Cook, Social Care Partner at Channel³ Consulting, shares his reflections on the discussions he had with delegates. He gained insights to the sector’s shared ambition and energy to digitally enable lives and in turn, improve outcomes for those who draw on care and support.
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