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and information are easier to use within someone’s working day. A manager shouldn’t have to piece everything together themselves.
Q: What do you think are the main needs of the industry and how can QCS support these? A: Providers need time, support for their workforce and confidence in the quality of care they’re delivering. They need strong foundations, but also practical help with running a service and staying inspection ready. That’s where we can make a real difference. QCS brings together care expertise, guidance and technology to help providers put good practice into action. Our compliance platform supports audits and helps teams identify where improvements are needed. Alongside that, our AI care plan audits and supervision tools help reduce time-consuming administration and support a more consistent approach across services. Something we hear a lot is, ‘I just need to
know we’re doing this right’. For a manager or owner, that means knowing their team has the support to deliver exceptional care, understanding where something needs attention and being confident that it’s followed through. As an organisation grows, that assurance becomes even more important.”
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Q: What does the future look like for QCS and what are you most looking forward to? A: Improving care standards will remain at the heart of what we do. Providers rely on QCS to stay ahead of changes and help them understand their next steps. We want to build on that reputation, giving customers peace of mind that they’re doing things well and helping them evidence it. I’m really looking forward to bringing
our plans to life. We have exciting work underway to introduce market-leading technology, bring systems together and make our products more useful in the day-to-day running of a service.
Q: Finally, do you have any advice for those in the sector who are hesitant to embrace new technologies, particularly AI? A: I understand the hesitation. In care, you should ask questions about how a tool works, what information it uses and how its outputs are checked. Suppliers should be able to give you clear answers. It’s worth acknowledging that doing
nothing, or adopting a watch and wait approach, now has a cost too. If your team is spending hours on work that technology could safely help with, that’s time they don’t
Hannah Morgan
Hannah Morgan is Senior Director of Product and Innovation at QCS. She is responsible for product, AI and data strategy, bringing together deep sector expertise and emerging technology to help care providers work more effectively and deliver better outcomes.
have for something else. I’d start with looking at a challenge you
already have. What takes too long? Where does your team need more support? Look for a supplier who understands that problem and can show how their technology helps. Start small, involve the people who will use it and see whether it delivers the benefit you expected. Choose suppliers who take safety, ethics and data protection seriously, and be clear about where human review is needed. You don’t need to change everything at once to make useful progress.
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