Care Sector News

The latest UK care sector news, information on the best practice regarding care home software as well as some tips and tricks from the Log my Care community, can all be found here.

5 Steps To Successfully Implement Electronic Care Planning Systems in Your Care Home

So what are the 5 steps that will help you implement electronic care planning into your care service?

New Charts, Mobility Tracking and Even Pudding! Care Office November Update

My team have been busy and have just added some awesome new features to the Care Office and Carer App. This time you don’t need to do anything to update and you should see them all the next time you log in.

New Features Coming to Our Care Planning System

This week I’ve taken over the Log my Care blog from Alex as I wanted to share with you some of the things my team has been busy building and adding to our care system.

Free Care Home Management Software is Helping the UK Care Sector

Quality care home management software helps carers stay on top of everything whilst making their working lives easier.

How can Care Apps help to improve social care provision?

Care apps like ours have helped pave the way for improvements in the service that frontline staff and management offer.

Carer of the month – September 2018

This month was incredibly hard to nominate but we all sat down together and made a decision to name our next carer of the month. Discover who September 2018’s carer of the month is!

We’ve added ABC charts to our care management system

We genuinely listen to all of the feedback our wonderful community gives us and use this to directly influence the development of our care management system so it better meets the day to day needs of care providers.

Our free care software has been nominated for an award | Log my Care

We are hugely proud to announce that we have been nominated for a care award. Tomorrow’s Care has listed our free care software as one of their 25 finalists.

Carer of the month – August 2018

You may be aware that we are building part of our care system to help celebrate the awesome work Carers using Log my Care are doing. The first phase of this work is now ready for launch.

The top 10 mistakes poor care plans make and how you can avoid them

In order to help care providers avoid the pitfalls associated with poor care plans, we’ve compiled a list of the ‘Top 10 mistakes poor care plans make’ and a list of methods you can use to avoid making them yourself.

Summer Update – We’ve just launched a tonne of new resident health charts!

We are super proud to introduce to you all of our brand-new charts. We’ve included everything from weight, nutrition, MUST, Waterlow, stool, turns etc.

Why are you free? The first blog from our founder Sam Hussain

We get asked this a lot and by a lot, I mean at least 5 times a day. Why are you free? How is the Log my Care home software free? What’s the catch?

What hardware do you need to run care home management software?

This guide will help you choose the right smartphones for your carers to use and also help you find some solid options that will improve your Wi-Fi signal in your care home, in order to get the most of your chosen care management software.

How does the Log my Care system actually work?

After years of working in software, we saw the quite frankly poor offerings on the market aimed (and largely failing) towards the residential elderly care market. Most of the systems out there were either poorly designed and packed full of features that were just too complicated to really help busy front-line carers.

Log my Care | July 2018 system update

As part of our commitment to continually improving the Log my Care system and providing the UK care sector with the best possible free care home management software, we’ve released our next major update to our ‘Care Office’.

Electronic care plans for care homes – all you need to know in less than a minute

An electronic care plan is a digital version of a conventional paper care plan. This can be one that is created through simple software like Microsoft Word or more complex systems designed to create the plans themselves. Log my Care takes your digital care plans and acts as a storage facility. We help to identify the care plan’s evolution, by giving you records of when the documentation has been updated and keeping back-ups of previous versions.

How To Pilot a Care Management System

So, you’re thinking of getting a care management system in your care home and want to run a test or a pilot to see if it’s really for you? Well, this handy little guide will run through everything you need to do – broken down into easy steps.

Care Home Management Software Designed By Carers For Carers

Our philosophy of listening to the Log my Care community has been the same, right the way from our first ideas and initial designs of the care planning software to the regular updates we provide to the care homes using it day to day.

The Top Care Apps For Care Assistants

With a huge range of different apps available for almost anything, you can imagine. We thought it’d be great to list some of the top apps for care assistants. So here goes – here are our nominations for the top apps for care assistants.

Our Care Plan Software Just Got Even Better

Good news! As part of our commitment to continually improving the Log my Care system and providing the UK care sector with the best possible free care plan software, we’ve released our next major update to our ‘Care Office’.

Care home management software – busting the jargon.

Care home management software is still fairly new to most of the care homes in the UK and the software industry is fairly guilty of resorting to overly complex and techy terminology at the best of times.

How to avoid cr*p care plan software

Let’s face it, there is loads of different care plan software on the market right now and most of it costs a fair old whack. So what do you need to know in order to avoid the cr*p and get the right software, which actually does what you need it to?

What you need to watch out for when you move to electronic care planning

Are you thinking about moving your care home onto electronic care plans? Well you need to be aware of some of the pitfalls and things to watch out for when you select your preferred system. Find out more in our quick guide.

Care home software – the do’s and don’ts

This week’s blog focuses on the biggest dos and don’ts when it comes to care home software. There’s loads of choice out there, so you need to know what to do and what not to.

Getting started with electronic care plans – a quick guide to Log my Care

Getting your home started with electronic care plans, might at first seem like a bit of a tall order. Fear not! We’ve got your back and have come up with a quick guide showing you how to get your care home up and running with electronic care plans.

The top 3 reasons you need to be using a care management system

Are you stuck deciding whether you should shake up your paper recording processes and take on a digital care management system? We know it’s pretty hard to risk switching up your current practices and getting something new in, which could upset the carers and distract them from your residents might at first seem like something that’s not worth the hassle.

Care Management Software and the new KLOEs – What you might’ve missed.

The changes to the Key Lines of Enquiry (KLOEs) from CQC popped in during Autumn last year, and whilst the KLOEs have been around for a fair while now, some of the updates they’ve added in relate specifically to your care home’s use of technology.

How easy is it to setup a pilot of Log my Care in your home?

Here at Log my Care we take more than a little bit of pride in how simple it is to get up and running with the care system. This edition of our blog will help give you a quick run through of how to get a pilot of Log my Care and running in your care home.

Introducing Log my Care – the simplest way for your care home to use a care management system.

Log my Care is the is the easiest way to get your residential care home up and running with electronic care planning. Our new system has been developed by carers for carers and has been specifically designed to overcome the challenging amounts of administration and paperwork involved in delivering residential care.