The Covid-19 pandemic has proved particularly challenging for adult care providers. With care homes under more scrutiny than ever, a great solution to monitor standards is a mobile auditing app.
Efficient inspections with an auditing app
Instead of onerous paper or Excel-based processes, care homes can ensure consistent standards and compliance with digital self-inspections. Our GoAudits healthcare inspections mobile app enables care homes to make significant efficiency gains:
- No more paperwork, lost forms or manually compiled reports: simply tick the checklist in our easy-to-use mobile app, on a phone, tablet or PC. Add pictures, annotations, comments as needed.
- Instant reports are automatically generated and shared with anyone who needs to be aware of the inspection results. The analytics information is easy-to-read, with scores, charts and historical trends in dynamic dashboards to help understand the audit results.
- Immediately assign follow-up actions to the right staff and resolve any issues as soon as possible, without letting anything slip through the cracks.
Get ready for CQC audits with regular self-inspections
The Care Quality Commission conducts dozens of surprise inspections every month, to assess if health providers are safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led. Every month, several care providers receive the rating “Inadequate” for their standards of care.
How to prepare for the external audits like CQC and ensure the policies and standards are upheld in every location, every day?
Regular self-audits are a great tool to increase staff awareness, standardise expectations, as well as spot and resolve issues early. You don’t want to add more admin burden to your busy staff – therefore it is important to make the self-auditing process as simple as possible.
Enabling inspections on a mobile device presents several benefits:
- Regular inspections: the admin work is minimised, therefore it becomes easy to conduct self-inspections more often
- Strong adoption: everyone has a mobile device and knows how to use simple apps, so no training is required
- Instant results: get notifications in real-time when there is an issue, monitor resolution on dashboards, get a full visibility into the different areas
- Standardised processes & improved outcomes: everyone uses the same checklists, at a set frequency, so you can visualise trends, compare across locations or departments, and monitor compliance. So that the standards gradually improve over time.
GoAudits care homes auditing app
Care homes and hospitals use GoAudits to conduct checks in different areas: health & safety standards, internal quality audits, Key Lines of Enquiry Audit (KLOE) for CQC, kitchen and mealtime observations, and much more.
You can easily create your own checklists or get us to upload them in the system. Additionally, GoAudits offers various checklist templates to get you started quicker:
- health and safety audits checklist
- fire safety checklist
- infection prevention control checklist
- legionella risk assessment checklist
- sanitation checklist
- falls analysis checklist
- Covid-19 readiness checklist
- home safety assessment checklist
- etc
Click here to learn more about GoAudits for nursing homes, domiciliary and residential care providers – and how they benefit from our app. Get in touch for a free setup and trial!
