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The National Homecare Awards
took place at The Marriott Hotel, Grosvenor
Square, London on Saturday 6th of May and
Burall InfoCare were sponsors of the IT Innovator award at
this inaugural event which was
hosted by comedian Tom O'Connor.
The IT Innovator award
is awarded to the home care provider
who can best demonstrate the innovative use of information
technology to deliver and maintain consistently high levels
of service for end users and this year
the award was won by Mark Thomas of Westminster Homecare.
In presenting the
award, Lawrence Faulkner, Director of Burall InfoCare said
"Burall are proud to sponsor the IT Innovator Award, but we
know this business is not about the technology - it's about
the people and the service. That's why the judges
wanted to see evidence of not just adopting
technology, but in adapting it to improve the service
to stakeholders."
Mark Thomas was able to
show the judges how he had taken ordinary homecare
monitoring software and add a feature which allows relatives
of service users to see what care has been provided. This
feature is similar to the RemoteReview
function offered by the InfoCare system but was sufficient
to help Mark beat the three other finalist who also
demonstrated passion and professionalism in exploiting IT
for their respective organisations.
Runners up in this
category were Christopher Platt of London Borough of
Hounslow, Russell Day of Oxfordshire County Council and
Allison Horrocks / Lynne Howard of Wakefield Home Care.
The awards were organised by
Ceretas (formerly the British Association of Domiciliary Care
Officers, BADCO) to recognise excellence in homecare and to pay tribute to those who work within the sector.
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