Care Planner: Revolutionising Social Care with Efficiency and Compassion
In today’s rapidly evolving social care landscape, delivering outstanding care while managing tight budgets, complex schedules, and rising demands is an uphill challenge for care managers and workers alike. Enter Care Planner, a groundbreaking software solution that streamlines the planning, scheduling, and management of social care services — enabling care teams to focus on what truly matters: providing exceptional, person-centred care.
What is Care Planner?
Care Planner is a comprehensive care management software platform originally founded in 2008 in Bridgwater, Somerset. It was designed specifically to meet the complex needs of the social care sector. The platform optimises every aspect of social care delivery — from scheduling calls and visits, rostering care workers, to invoicing and reporting — all within one easy-to-use system. Its core strength lies in reducing human error through automation and clear, centralised oversight, empowering care teams to operate efficiently even under mounting pressure.
The Evolution of Care Planner into Nourish Care
In a significant industry development, Care Planner has now merged with Nourish Care, a leading digital social care records platform. This integration marks a new chapter for Care Planner, expanding its reach and capabilities. Nourish Care, founded in 2012 and headquartered in Bournemouth, England, serves over 350,000 carers daily across various care settings including residential, nursing, dementia, learning disabilities, and domiciliary care. The unified platform harnesses the strengths of both entities to deliver a flexible, scalable solution that supports care services of any size — from small providers supporting fewer than five people to large organisations assisting over 10,000.
How Care Planner Transforms Social Care Management
Simplified Scheduling and Rostering
At its core, Care Planner’s mission is to simplify the complexities of social care scheduling. The platform automates the rostering of care workers, ensuring that every client’s needs are met promptly and efficiently. Care managers can easily assign calls based on skills, availability, and location, minimising travel time and maximising the productivity of care workers. This automation reduces the burden of manual scheduling, a traditionally time-consuming and error-prone task.
Seamless Invoicing and Financial Management
Managing invoicing is another challenge faced by social care providers. Care Planner integrates financial workflows directly into the platform, automating invoicing processes and e-billing. This seamless financial integration reduces administrative overhead, speeds up payment cycles, and improves financial transparency. Care providers can customise invoicing rules to meet the specific funding and contractual requirements of different clients or commissioners.
Real-Time Tracking and Alerts
One of the standout features of Care Planner is its ability to track visits and appointments in real time. Care workers can log activities on the go using mobile devices, ensuring accurate records are maintained without delay. The system also generates alerts and notifications to flag missed visits or scheduling conflicts, enabling swift resolution and uninterrupted care delivery.
Customisable User Experience
Care Planner understands that different users have different needs. From frontline care workers to schedulers, finance officers, and senior managers, the platform offers a customisable interface for every role. This user-centric design enhances adoption rates and ensures that each team member can work efficiently using a tailored dashboard.
Nourish Care: The Future of Digital Social Care Records
Nourish Care has rapidly become the UK’s foremost digital social care records platform. It supports a wide range of care types — residential, nursing, domiciliary, supported living, dementia care, and more. Its intuitive design is built around the care teams who use it daily, empowering them with tools that help plan, record, and coordinate care both via desktop and mobile apps.
Key Features of Nourish Care
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Personalised Timelines: Care teams can view detailed timelines for each individual, enabling better care coordination and monitoring.
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Powerful Reporting and Analytics: Managers have access to robust data insights that inform operational decisions and improve service quality.
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Integration Friendly: Nourish connects with a suite of partner systems, acting as a central hub for seamless data flow across platforms.
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NHS England Assured: Recognised on the NHS England Assured Solutions List for Digital Social Care Records, confirming its compliance and quality.
With Nourish Care, the vision is to give care providers more time for face-to-face, person-centred care by reducing the administrative burden.
Nourish Care’s Company Profile
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Founded: 2012
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Headquarters: Bournemouth, England
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Website: https://nourishcare.com
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Industry: Hospitals and Health Care
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Specialties: Care Management Systems, Digital Care Planning Software, Care Monitoring, Chronic Disease Management Tools
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Locations: Bournemouth (Head Office), Bridgwater, Bristol
The merger of Care Planner into Nourish Care has expanded the workforce and extended their market reach, combining the strengths of both platforms to provide a truly comprehensive digital solution.
Why Choose Care Planner / Nourish Care?
Efficiency that Empowers Care Delivery
Social care is about people — the vulnerable individuals who rely on support and the dedicated professionals who provide it. Care Planner, now part of Nourish Care, frees care teams from administrative hassles, enabling them to focus on delivering compassionate, personalised care.
Flexible and Scalable for All Providers
Whether you are a small domiciliary care agency or a large multi-site provider, the platform’s modular architecture means you can scale and customise the solution to fit your service model.
Trusted by Thousands
With over 350,000 carers relying on Nourish Care daily, it is one of the UK’s most trusted digital social care platforms, providing peace of mind to providers, commissioners, and regulators.
Strong Support and Integration Network
Nourish Care partners with multiple integration solutions, allowing care providers to build an ecosystem of tools tailored to their unique operational needs.
Conclusion
In an era where social care faces unprecedented pressures from rising demand, budget constraints, and increasing regulatory requirements, Care Planner, now integrated with Nourish Care, offers a lifeline for providers. It blends cutting-edge technology with an empathetic understanding of care work, making the complex simple and the overwhelming manageable.
By choosing Care Planner and Nourish Care, social care organisations can enhance efficiency, reduce errors, and ultimately deliver outstanding care — more efficiently than ever before.
