Can CareTech help in overnight Care?
At Ethel Care, we are aware of some Local Authorities spending close to £70,000 every week on overnight care (a mix of waking nights and sleep-ins). It’s essential for safety, but costly and increasingly hard to staff.
The problem, we believe, is that we are operating in a data blackhole. Does the user wake up? How many times? Doing what? What kind of assistance do they need? Each person is different and their needs are varied, but we traditionally offer a one-size-fits-all solution- Overnight Carer.
When we modeled what would happen if just 15% of service users moved to a tech-enabled overnight care model, the results were eye-opening:
– Tens of thousands of care hours freed up
– Significant budget savings
– No compromise on safety or dignity
The TEC approach
Instead of 7 nights/week of waking night care, CareTech can cover multiple users via remote monitoring from a central hub, with rapid-response carers able to attend within 30 minutes if the system flags an urgent issue. This has the potential to cut costs by 40–60% without compromising safety.
TEC isn’t about replacing people. It’s about using CareTech to keep people safe while freeing carers to focus on where they’re most needed.
If you’re a social care manager wondering what this could look like in your area, let’s talk. We can model your figures, refine the model and show you the art of the possible.
The Tech to operationalise this model already exists – check out our real-time alerting platform and Ethelsense kit which are already baked into the Ethelcare solution.
