Entries by Alex O'Donovan

Winner, Public Sector Awards 2019

CareWorks have been selected as the overall winner in the Public Sector Awards 2019 for Excellence in Health & Care Software. CareWorks is the market leader for integrated community health and social care software, with over 100 customers in the UK, Ireland and USA. They provide software solutions that enable Health and Social Care organisations […]

Digital Health CCIO of the Year award presented by CareWorks

Paul Boland Sales Director CareWorks, seen here on the right presents the CCIO of the year award to the Winner Gareth Thomas; group CCIO – Salford Royal NHS FT (seen above in the middle).  Jon Hoeksma, CEO – digital health hosted the event on the 18th of July as part of  the Digital Health Summer […]

Delivering Better Mental Health Services through IT Innovation – A Five Year View

Delivering Better Mental Health Services through IT Innovation – A Five Year View It’s clear that there are major challenges for Mental Health leadership teams over the next 5 years where they will be asked to deliver more services but not necessarily with bigger budgets. The good news is that there is help in the […]

Mental Health Awareness Week

Mental health problems can affect anyone, at any time. We believe that mental health is everyone’s business. For one week each May, a campaign is built around a specific theme for Mental Health Awareness Week. The first Mental Health Awareness Week was in 2001 and since then awareness has been raised around  topics like stress, […]

A bad user interface is a cranky receptionist

Being greeted by a cranky receptionist is the real world equivalent to a bad user interface in the digital world. Both are off-putting, both are uninviting, and both are thoroughly unexpected. Consumers have come to expect slick, intuitive digital products, making design-related first impressions extremely important today. The first opening click of a new product […]

Vaughan Gething AM recognises the 10,000th user of WCCIS

Vaughan Gething AM, the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Services in Wales will be visiting the Ty Elai social care offices in Rhondda Cynon Taf, between 13:00 and 13:45 on Tuesday 4 September. The visit is in recognition that the 10,000th user of WCCIS has been registered in RCT. WCCIS is a national community […]

CareWorks sponsors Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Staff Care Awards

CareWorks will be sponsoring the Staff CARE Awards at Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, at Eden Project on 2nd November. CareWorks are extremely proud to sponsor an organisation that shares our values, who put people at the centre of what they do and are determined to make a difference to people’s lives. Every year Cornwall […]

National Social Care Conference 2018

CareWorks are again delighted to be a Main Sponsor again for the National Social Care Conference this year, taking place at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff, 11th to 13th September. This year we will be hosting a workshop focusing on Digital Transformation in Western Bay; An insight to the benefits, […]

Torfaen Young Carers Service attends the Young Carers Festival 2018

Last Year Torfaen Young Carers Service received some funding from CareWorks Social Investment Fund. Torfaen Young Carers Service is a support system for people under 18 who have become a carer at an early age. The service works with children, young people and their families to give the young carers support and a short break […]