1/3 More thoughts on #TotalPlace from the Mutual Ventures team. It could be more relevant now than when it was last in existence nearly 15 years ago.

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✨ Donna Hall ✨ Kate Ardern Simon Kaye

I’m not sure these steps feel very big. Every few days at the moment it feels like I hear about orgs having to lay good people off theguardian.com/business/2024/…

I was really wowed by the breadth and depth of talented and experienced people we had apply for our design research role recently. If anyone is looking to work with design researchers motivated by purpose please let me know. If we could, we would have hired 3/4 of the people

My The Guardian story: Tens of thousands of unpaid carers looking after disabled, frail or ill relatives forced to repay huge sums to DWP or face criminal prosecution over 'honest mistake' breaches of carers allowance rules theguardian.com/society/2024/a…

As Andrew from Seven Consultancy commented…”what a place to be doing your emails from today”. Excited to be Wembley Stadium today with Dorothy TPXimpact | B Corp™ mapping the space to help those living with dementia find their way around independently. #dementiafriendlyspaces

What an honour for our COO to be Netherlands Embassy 🇬🇧 last night. At Care City we're all about sharing & learning from others to make improvements to #socialcare , particularly following The King's Fund report on public satisfaction out today. Read more about our work carecity.org/what-we-do/

We can finally reveal the latest data on public satisfaction with the NHS and social care - with joint analysis from The King's Fund and Nuffield Trust. The headlines do not make for happy reading. Satisfaction with NHS down to lowest ever in 40 years to 24%.


So excited to have progressed to Phase 2 of The Health Foundation's Tech for Better Care programme with In Control supporting co-production of a digital platform to transform the lives of people who direct their own support. inCharge #socialcarefuture Neil Crowther
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On way to Gateshead to this w/Mark Adam Smith ✨ Donna Hall ✨ and 250 fellow changemakers - there's no more room in the inn and the speed at which this event sold out speaks volumes about how many want to make radical change in our public service systems changingfuturesnorthumbria.co.uk/Liberating-Pub…

This is a fabulous opportunity to find out about some of our wonderful AHP careers!! ⬇️⬇️⬇️

This is such a brilliant opportunity to help local residents and health and care staff across Barking and Dagenham and Redbridge to benefit from new care technology, supporting people’s independence and agency - really happy we can help with it all

It's exciting! Working alongside Barking and Dagenham Council Rethink Partners, Alcove & local Dom Care providers, we'll be evaluating effectiveness of digital care technologies that aim to transform the lives of older people & improve efficiency of care delivery. ow.ly/zaci50QWB1H

Really looking forward to visiting this. Fantastic to have The Women’s Museum open in Barking

Big fan of Shared Lives Shared Lives Plus looking forward to seeing the impact of this continue to grow through the accelerated reform fund gov.uk/government/new… 👏

Thanks to those who came to our Winter Support event! Next one is 18/04 at Thames Community Hub. It's a great opp to get advice on how to reduce fuel bills, grants that are available & join in fun activities while making new friends. Sign up carecity.org/join-our-winte… Cadent Foundation

Brilliant news for #sharedlives and homeshare today. Helen Whately said: ‘I’ve seen first-hand how Shared Lives helps people who need care, and I’m delighted this funding will scale up support and make an even bigger difference for more people.’ gov.uk/government/new…

Great fun filming a video to showcase Dorothy & how it can help people living with dementia navigate their community independently. Thanks to our Community Board acting stars & Eastbury Manor House NT for hosting us. Longitude Prize on Dementia Ben Williams The London Video Co

This week saw £3.4B of funding for tech in NHS - a mixture of some good, some more questionable, some parts missing

Here’s a short breakdown covering apps, IT & AI (of course):

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A big shout out to the amazing women at Care City this #InternationalWomensDay2024 . Making up two thirds of the team, this great bunch work fiercely hard & with such passion to make improvements to help NELondon communities live happier, healthier lives. #CelebrateWomen #IWD2024