At the core of this development is a recognition that organising the delivery of care visits to such large numbers of people, generally for short periods of time whilst taking into account the necessary skills and experience matching requirements in the traditional way, cannot consistently deliver the best results. Producing optimised solutions by utilising OptiCare’s advanced technology is expected to deliver significant reductions in travel time costs and mileage allowance payments, whilst increasing the amount of time that District Nurses are available to treat their patients.

He said of his new appointment: This is a really exciting opportunity for me. To join a growing company that has a unique and compelling business proposition to helphealth and social care providers both control their costs and improve quality, is a great prospect.

This issue is particularly apparent within Reablement Services with the rapid movement of Service Users through the service. To respond to this challenge OptiCare have developed Dynamic Deployment a service designed to regularly monitor the gap between supply and demand and produce solutions which have a minimum impact on staff rotas.