Test and Learn Pilots

An original pilot in North Essex has finished however, additional funding was secured from Mid and South Essex Integrated Care Board and North East Essex Integrated Care Board to scale-up.

Overview

Over the last 12 months, Essex County Council in partnership with Suffolk and North East Essex Integrated Care board has been trialling falls prevention technology in care homes across the North of Essex.

The device is like a smoke alarm and passively monitors people in the care home, one device is in the bathroom and the other one goes in the bedroom. The solution has no cameras, wearables or buttons.

The technology has been supporting with negating long lies by identifying and alerting all types of falls to onsite carers within 4 minutes. This covers all types of falls from slump in chairs to hard falls and has proven 100% accuracy.

Alongside the falls detection, the proacting monitoring identifies changes in behaviour which can support preventative and personalised care. An example of this would be more trips to the bathroom could be a UTI or medication side effect and need further investigation.

Both Suffolk and North East Essex and Mid and South Essex Integrated Care Board secured additional funding for falls prevention technology.

Criteria

Care homes experiencing high falls or A&E admissions.

Area

Mid and South Essex

North East Essex

Contact Name

Ellie Anderson (Mid), Craig Archer (South), Simon Williams (North)

Useful links: Senior Care Technology Based On RF Sensing | Vayyar Care

The Hybrid Care pilot started in February 2024 and is for Tier 1 providers.

Overview

A 6-month pilot with Vocala exploring the concept of a Hybrid Care model. We want to free up people to do the tasks that people are better at and use technology for other tasks where possible this does not mean replacing all visits with this offer but to compliment care delivery where appropriate and free up face to face visits for those that really need it. From our early insights the types of visits which could be in scope for this offer could include; shopping, wellbeing, medication, and low-level prompting calls.

The Technology could potentially introduce a new role in the care market which would be a virtual carer which is more attractive to the younger generation but this could be delivered by the voluntary sector or a Social Prescriber instead of Dom Care.

This pilot will scope what good looks like in a future model of care framework including costing and the technology required to support a hybrid care model. The learning from this project will feed into the re-commissioning of our Live at Home framework in 2025.

Criteria:

Tier 1 provider operating in Braintree, Mid Essex.

Area:

Mid Essex

Contact Name:

Ellie Anderson

Useful links:

Vocala - Alexa Skills, Voice Development, London, UK

Overview

A nine-month pilot will start in February 2024 with Essex Cares Limited, to look at the use of short-term monitoring equipment in the reablement service. Daily monitoring equipment will be given to individuals coming out of hospital as part of their reablement package. The equipment will be used to monitor daily living, using sensors (and other relevant care technologies if required), and enable the care provider to enhance their data-lead reablement package by the increased visibility of an adult’s progress.

The data will be used to support decision making around length of stay in reablement and support the provider to eliminate risk when reducing packages and capture potential signs earlier to avoid unnecessary readmissions to hospital, for example more frequent bathroom trips could be a sign of a UTI, lack of accessing medication storage would indicate non-compliance with course of treatment etc.

At the end of the reablement period, the individual will be assessed for ongoing needs which would include care technologies being prescribed by the care provider to support the individual to remain living independently in their own home. This again frees up capacity in the wider care market to support with more intensive levels of need including handover from reablement and promotes a personalised approach to the individual while supporting all elements of daily living.

The results from the pilot will be able shape thinking of what a future Intermediate Care offer could look like supported by Technology.

Criteria

10 Monitoring kits will be used with Essex Cares Limited reablement service.

Area

North Essex

Contact Name:

Simon Williams

Useful links: Anthropos Pro

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