From the Editor: New report highlights the need for digital solutions to staffing issues
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A new report commissioned by business software provider OneAdvanced Health & Care has highlighted the staffing challenges faced by the care sector – many of which could be alleviated via the implementation of smart digital solutions.
OneAdvanced Health & Care commissioned its?Care Trends Report?to understand the specific challenges that care and support providers are facing and how they plan to address them. Responses came from 435 care and support provider owners, CEOs, managing directors, CFOs, and COOs working in residential care, supported living, extra care and retirement living, and domiciliary care.
The care sector is currently facing a profound workforce shortage, with more than one in ten care worker posts remaining unfilled according to figures published by Skills for Care .
According to the?Care Trends Report, 97 per cent of care organisations have issues with rostering, while almost half (46 per cent) of care staff are unhappy with their pay.
In addition to care providers having issues rostering their existing staff, 60 per cent identified a high number of unsuitable candidates when recruiting. Some 57 per cent of respondents want more schemes and campaigns designed to specifically recruit care workers.
Outdated systems remain a huge issue, with the report finding that 48 per cent of care providers find compliance and reportable event management an issue due to their current IT systems being inadequate, potentially putting clients at risk. Worryingly, over a third (34 per cent) of care leadership has had previous incidents of missing records.
"We commissioned this survey to better understand the challenges facing the care sector and how technology can help to solve some of these issues," said Ric Thompson , MD, OneAdvanced Health & Care .
"These results demonstrate how technology can help manage the precious resources within the care sector and enable them to gain better control of their organisations through a much more detailed and granular view of data – freeing up more time of managers and staff to deal with the more pressing and urgent issues, and of course patient care."
Now more than ever before, social care needs to make digitisation a priority, in order to free up existing care staff to spend as much of their time as possible carrying out the most important task of all – caring for their residents.
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