Procurement status and plans for Electronic Homecare/Reablement Rostering/Scheduling and Visit Monitoring solutions in 2023/24 or 2024/25.
Dear Peterborough City Council,
Under FOI please provide the following information relating to how the Council rosters its staff and / or monitors the service delivery, for the adult social care services it is responsible for:
Q1. Regarding Electronic Homecare/Reablement Rostering/Scheduling and Visit Monitoring (including via a mobile app which also enables electronic rota delivery to, and feedback captured by, the care workers):
a) Does the Council have any plans to procure an Electronic Homecare/Reablement Rostering/Scheduling cloud software solution for scheduling care services to be undertaken by its in-house adult social care services, informing staff of their rotas and recording the visit attendance by the Council’s in-house staff and/or capturing feedback (e.g. the outcomes achieved, medications dispensed), supporting its social care service users, primarily but not restricted to only domiciliary care/reablement) in:
i) 2023/2024, or;
ii) 2024/25, and if so when;
b) via which procurement route, and;
c) provide the contact name for the relevant procurement lead OR if Council privacy policy so requires, the name of the department leading the procurement within the Council, as well as an indication if, and when / how, the Council intends to contact or is willing to engage with the market, plus;
d) if the Council would be interested in receiving information in this regard and the department / contact name to whom the information should be sent?
Q2. Does the Council have an existing Electronic Homecare/Reablement Rostering/Scheduling on-premise or cloud software solution and if so can the Council please:
a) advise the supplier, and name of the solution, as well as;
b) the current expiry date of the contract under which it is purchased?
Many thanks.
Yours faithfully,
Peter Briggs
FOI/EIR Request - 2303081551
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FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST – FOI 2303081551
Dear Peter Briggs,
Your request for information, with reference number FOI 2303081551 has now
been considered and the information requested is given below.
Request and Response
Under FOI please provide the following information relating to how the
Council rosters its staff and / or monitors the service delivery, for the
adult social care services it is responsible for:
Q1. Regarding Electronic Homecare/Reablement Rostering/Scheduling and
Visit Monitoring (including via a mobile app which also enables electronic
rota delivery to, and feedback captured by, the care workers):
a) Does the Council have any plans to procure an Electronic
Homecare/Reablement Rostering/Scheduling cloud software solution for
scheduling care services to be undertaken by its in-house adult social
care services, informing staff of their rotas and recording the visit
attendance by the Council’s in-house staff and/or capturing feedback (e.g.
the outcomes achieved, medications dispensed), supporting its social care
service users, primarily but not restricted to only domiciliary
care/reablement) in:
i) 2023/2024, or;
ii) 2024/25, and if so when;
b) via which procurement route, and;
c) provide the contact name for the relevant procurement lead OR if
Council privacy policy so requires, the name of the department leading the
procurement within the Council, as well as an indication if, and when /
how, the Council intends to contact or is willing to engage with the
market, plus;
d) if the Council would be interested in receiving information in this
regard and the department / contact name to whom the information should be
sent?
The Reablement service already have an electronic system in place.
Q2. Does the Council have an existing Electronic Homecare/Reablement
Rostering/Scheduling on-premise or cloud software solution and if so can
the Council please:
a) advise the supplier, and name of the solution, as well as;
b) the current expiry date of the contract under which it is purchased?
We do not use these systems for homecare or brokerage, however
the Reablement service use Total Mobile the contract is with Access Group
and the contract end date is March 2030.
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