Smart stuff – Better Nights improves lives & saves £250,000

March 3, 2013

Choice Support shows how funding can be used for good services, smart stuff to redesign to make really good use of social care funding.

Better Nights provides evidence of the impact of replacing waking night staff with sleep-in staff & assistive technology in services to people with learning disabilities.

Report authors Professor Roger Ellis, OBE, & Professor David Sines, CBE, identity savings of £256,902 per year, 10 examples of qualitative improvements in people’s lives, all with full consultation. This has the potential to help providers & commissioners design more effective social care.  For full details see the report


http://www.centreforwelfarereform.org/library/by-az/better-nights.html


 

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