Hospitals and the NHS In development
Care records that hold up to inspection, being built for wards.
Cura Vita runs today in care homes and home care. We are extending it to hospitals, NHS and independent. This page sets out what already carries across, what an NHS deployment adds, and what is not built yet.
In development. Cura Vita is live for care homes and home care. It is not yet intended for use in hospitals, and its medicines records are not for use with real people until its clinical safety case is signed.
HS-01 What carries across Live in care homes and home care
The core is built, and in use today.
Medicines, incidents, staff checks, audits and governance are built and live for care homes and home care. They are the same jobs on a ward, and they are the starting point for hospital use.
- Medicines
- Rounds by time, an outcome recorded for every dose (given, refused or withheld, with the reason), and overdue doses and late entries flagged.
- Incidents and safeguarding
- Falls, incidents and safeguarding concerns recorded on the person’s record. Flagged entries and every safeguarding entry go to a manager or nurse, who records the outcome: a referral made, family or a professional told, CQC notified.
- Staff checks and training
- DBS, right to work, training and medicines competency, each with its expiry date, and a training matrix in the staffing report.
- Supervisions and appraisals
- Each one recorded, with the next due date worked out from the last and an alert to managers when one is due.
- Audit trail
- Changes to residents, care plans, care notes, medicines and staff records logged with who made them and when, in a log that cannot be edited or deleted.
- Audit-grade reports
- About 60 criteria, each tied to a CQC regulation, NICE guidance, the Mental Capacity Act or employment law. Failing records are named, with the action to take.
- Audit programme
- A January to December programme of in-depth audits, with findings recorded item by item and actions tracked to completion.
- Sign-offs before go-live
- The data processing agreement, data protection impact assessment, clinical safety assessment and training confirmation are signed in the platform; a service cannot be marked live until they are.
- Access and separation
- Each organisation’s records kept apart in the database, access by role, and one sign-in across every site a person works in.
Built for care homes and home care; hospital use in development.
HS-02 The same standards Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014
One set of fundamental standards, whatever the setting.
CQC registers and inspects NHS and independent hospitals against the same fundamental standards as care homes and home care. Cura Vita's audits test records against those regulations today.
- Written for care homes and home care
- Today's criteria were written for those settings. Criteria for NHS and independent hospitals are part of the development, and are not written yet.
- No data, not a guess
- Where a record is not kept, the report says No data rather than guessing.
- Not an accreditation
- Cura Vita holds no CQC or NHS accreditation. The regulations describe what each criterion checks.
HS-03 What a deployment adds
What is in hand, and what is not built yet.
A clinical setting, and NHS work in particular, needs assurance and connections that a care home does not. Here is where each one stands, without rounding up.
Assurance None held yet
- Clinical safety case (DCB0129)In progressCura Vita's hazard log and safety case are drafted and awaiting review and sign-off by a Clinical Safety Officer. They cover care homes and home care only; a hospital or clinic needs its own hazard analysis first.
- Your deployment (DCB0160)TemplateCura Vita provides a draft deployment checklist and starter local hazard log for your own Clinical Safety Officer to complete and sign before go-live.
- Data Security and Protection ToolkitPlannedNot yet published.
- Cyber Essentials Plus and a penetration testPlannedNot yet held or carried out.
Connections and clinical tools Not built
- Patient record and pharmacy systemsNot builtNo integration with a hospital's patient administration, electronic patient record or pharmacy systems.
- NHS number and GP linksNot builtAn NHS number can be recorded on a person's record today. It is not checked against any NHS service, and there is no link to GP systems.
- Ward views and clinical observationsNot builtNo ward or bed views, and no recording of observations or early warning scores.
- Hospital audit criteriaNot builtAudit criteria and an audit programme written for hospital wards.
HS-04 For the board and the governance team
Evidence you can put in front of a committee.
The reports Cura Vita produces for care homes today are built for governance: tested against regulations, naming the records that fall short, with the action to take.
- Branded PDF audits
- A4, with scope, a criteria table, an exceptions schedule, an action plan and a sign-off block.
- Change history
- In the main reports: how many records were created, amended and deleted in the period, and who deleted each one.
- Self-assessment labelled
- Compliance scores typed in by hand are marked as self-assessed, not presented as evidence.
HS-05 Working with us
Talk to us early.
Hospital and clinic use is being shaped now. If you run one, we would rather build with you than guess.
See it
A demonstration of the live platform on a care home and a home care branch with fictional people, so you can judge what carries across.
Tell us your setting
Which wards or services, what systems you run, and what your clinical safety and information governance teams will need to see.
Shape a pilot
Before any hospital pilot, an intended-use statement, hazard analysis and clinical safety case for that setting come first.
HS-06 Book a demo
Run a hospital or an NHS service? Talk to us.
We will show you the platform as it runs in care homes and home care today, and talk through what hospital use would need.
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