The Birdie Blog

How have the CQC changed the way they provide ratings?

CQC Standards: Everything You Need to Know

CQC Ratings: Everything you need to know

CQC Compliance: Everything you need to know

Introducing Birdie Client Feed

CQC Statement of purpose examples: How-to guide

CQC requires improvement? How to fix the common problems

7 ways to improve your CQC score

What is the CQC Responsive KLOE, and how can you achieve a Good or Outstanding rating?

What is the CQC Well-Led KLOE, and how can you achieve a Good or Outstanding rating?

What is the CQC Effective KLOE and how can you achieve an Outstanding Rating?

KLOE Key Lines of Enquiry CQC - The Complete Guide

CQC digital records systems advice: how Birdie can help you meet the new guidance

5 quality improvement tips to help improve your CQC rating

Capturing outstanding evidence for your CQC report

New CQC inspection guidance for home care providers

How to prepare for your CQC inspection: new CQC framework for home care providers

Reach outstanding in your next CQC inspection: how to improve your CQC report

CQC standards in care - how to meet them with digital care management software

Grow your business

The latest how to’s and insights around homecare business recruitment, expansion and franchising from top industry experts

How to get clients for Domiciliary Care

How to set up a care agency : what you need to know

How to attract top carers to your agency? Stay engaged!

Free marketing tools for your home care business

How Birdie can help you win Council Tenders

7 ways to deliver amazing homecare marketing in 2022

Top opportunities for 2022 in homecare according to eight experts

Care recruitment resources from Birdie

Values-based recruitment framework

5 tips for success in social care recruitment

Do you need a care recruitment agency?

Carer interview questions: what should you ask?

How to hire exceptional carers

5 reasons marketing is so important in the care industry

How to fast track your recruitment: a care agency's guide to recruiting in a crisis

The top 5 homecare technology innovations for 2022

How to attract and hire new care professionals

Streamline day-to-day

Discover the top reviewed home healthcare technology, rostering platforms, care planning tools and more!

Help with mandatory NHS data submission

Create your most efficient rota yet with our new travel time visual!

The hidden cost of (most) homecare technology

Choosing technology for your homecare business: things to consider

How to pick the best tools for your care business

15 ways to cut costs in your care business

The price of care management software: is it worth it?

5 Ideas to make homecare invoicing and payroll easier

How to calculate carer holiday accrual and absence pay

Care rostering software systems: how to choose?

Visit Planning: improving the visit journey

GDPR and home care management systems: how Birdie helps you meet data protection regulations

Best domiciliary homecare software for 2022: how to choose

Homecare software systems: why third-party access is critical

Quick links to tools from our business finance webinar

Birdie and Malinko: rostering integration

Birdie and CarePlanner: working together to offer an all-in-one care management solution

New immigration rules: how can your home care agency get prepared?

Easily measure care performance with Birdie

Keep track of your performance in real-time with the Birdie Quality dashboard

Making call monitoring even more secure

How Birdie integrates with external rostering systems

How technology will help homecare businesses thrive

Why your homecare business will love going paperless

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Deliver amazing care

Person-centred care guidance, personalised care example plans and practical tools to help make your care outstanding everyday.

What is a Care Plan?

Domiciliary Care: Everything you need to know

Advanced Care Planning: Everything you need to know

Introducing custom fluid observations - for even more granular fluid management!

How Birdie is making checking in/out of visits even more secure

Collect e-signatures from clients using Birdie with fully paperless onboarding

Case study

Improving outcomes and reducing costs: how we’re collaborating with Fosse Healthcare

Care planning: how to set the right goals

Care planning question template: how to have an effective conversation

Person-centred care planning: why does it matter?

Top 5 questions to ask for person-centred care planning

About Me: how Birdie champions person-centred care

What is care management software?

eMAR system: which electronic medication tracking systems to choose?

How to choose an eMAR system for your dom care business

Person-centred care planning: examples and guides to help you create outstanding care plans

How to record cutaneous medications using Birdie’s eMAR and Bodymaps

The SMART approach to care planning: a checklist

Care Plan Templates: Examples of Person-centred Care

Digital care planning software: what you need to know

How to write a person-centred care plan?

Introducing digital mental capacity assessments for care recipients

A new generation in eMAR: meet our brand new Medication Manager

Digital vs paper care plans: pros, cons and everything in between

Digitising your assessments: how to go paperless

Introducing Task Planner

5 questions to ask before using eMAR

Inspire families

Simple, authentic ways homecare businesses have found to support the families of care recipients and provide peace of mind.

Case study

Let's find out what a family member thinks of Birdie technology...

Homecare Industry news

Your one stop destination for the latest news and events across the homecare Industry.

Prioritising your security - how Birdie protects your data and our platform

New Data Collection Guidance for Homecare Providers: Everything you need to know

Birdie have just raised $30 million in Series B

Birdie named in Startups 100: The Annual List of Most Disruptive New UK Businesses

Birdie raises $11.5million (£8.2m) led by Index Ventures

New report finds that 89% of home care providers are now using technology

Event blog

5 things you missed at the Care Show 2019

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Support your care professionals

Everything you need to help your care professionals win...from simple care planning, to mental health support and staff retention tips.

5 ways to build your homecare team's morale during busy periods

Why is communication important in Health and Social Care?

Your homecare staff retention plan

eMAR training for carers: your questions answered

Webinar

Webinar: PPE Guidance for homecare providers with Claire Sutton of National Care Forum

Webinar

Webinar: best practices for supporting staff during COVID-19 from Hasbury Home Care Services

Practical tips to help care professionals reduce stress

Partner stories'

Find out more about how Birdie works from the people who know best.

F‍ind out how Caring Forever made medication management simple

How Christies Care found onboarding 500+ active carers onto Birdie

Find out why Alina Homecare consistently feature among top 20 homecare businesses in the UK

How CHD Care at Home delivers care that family members love

How Prioritising People’s Lives support their carers' wellbeing with Birdie

How Enthuse Care spends 50% less time on reporting using Birdie

How Key 2 Care delivers person-centred care to over 400 service users

How CHD Care at Home improved their CQC rating with easy-to-use technology

How Key 2 Care reduced their response time to just 5 minutes

The Birdie nest

Learn more about who Birdie are as a team, and what makes them tick (or flap, if we're sticking with a bird theme...)

Birdie Voices: I haven't chewed for 7 months

What's new at Birdie: August 2022

Birdie Voices: Birds get equal pay

Birdie Voices: What 'doing good' means to me

What's new at Birdie: July 2022

Birdie have just raised $30 million in Series B

What's new at Birdie: June 2022

What’s new at Birdie: May 2022

Event blog

Will you be at Health Plus Care 2022? Come say hi!

What's new at Birdie: April 2022

What's new at Birdie: March 2022

Hola España! - We're now supporting Spanish agencies

Judy Boniface-Chang joins Birdie

What's new at Birdie: February 2022

Building a better Birdie: what we’re doing to improve your experience with us

What's new at Birdie: January 2022

Birdie voices: how the engineering team solved idle transactions

Birdie voices: how we are building the best place to work one day at a time

The power of AI: Birdie and Faculty begin an exploratory research project into polypharmacy

Future of Care Roundtable: new models of care - how can technology help?

Birdie is now available on GCloud: here’s what it means

Birdie voices: wellbeing at Birdie is not just a buzzword

Birdie voices: my summer during the pandemic as an intern at Birdie

Future of Care Roundtable: do we need regulation in home care? And if so, who should be doing it?

Birdie voices: valuable burndown charts and streamlining productivity at Birdie

Future of Care Roundtable: creating new value in domiciliary care

Birdie partners with NHSX for Techforce19

How Birdie is developing tools to support home care agencies during COVID-19

How Birdie is mobilising resources during COVID-19

The Birdie team take on Slateman 2020 for Age UK Camden

An update on Birdie’s resources for staying safe and supporting clients and care staff during COVID-19

See Birdie in action - our brand new video is here!

Birdie hires Malte Gerhold: CQC Strategy & Intelligence Chief

How should the social care crisis be addressed by political parties?

Birdie voices: How the engineering team stopped getting stuck in the feature build cycle

Meet the tech entrepreneur revolutionising the home care industry

This app might just revolutionise social care

Birdie voices: how culture and employees can inspire change and help your users

Birdie voices: celebrating the importance of independence

Purpose, autonomy and learning — meet the Birdie culture

Birdie: why does it matter?

Our startup Birdie wants to bring joy into ageing