Care & lived experience
Define good care with the people receiving it. Turn rights, preferences and lived experience into design decisions.
Work with this circle ↗Founding circleDifferent perspectives.
Work in common.
Join a circle around a question you care about. Bring practical knowledge, challenge and a willingness to learn.
Our first shared test is a practical reporting project. Other problems and tool ideas are welcome. Choose a bounded task, test a change and share what happened.
Workforce & daily practice
Examine handovers, staff authority, time and skills. Design routines that help people respond.
Work with this circle ↗Founding circleData, technology & AI
Work on shared tools, meaningful monitoring, reliable data and decisions that people can understand.
Work with this circle ↗Founding circleFunding & public value
Test current funding, actual costs and resource allocation. Separate cash, capacity and care outcomes.
Work with this circle ↗Founding circleGovernance & advocacy
Connect accountability and evidence with policy. Develop a practical proposition government can scrutinise.
Work with this circle ↗Founding circleWorking models
Bring service and software examples together. Document what works, what fails and what it costs.
Work with this circle ↗Founding circleBring the idea.
Build it with the people who use it.
What would your ideal tool help you do? Bring the task, the steps that get in the way and an idea for a better way of working. Contribute an idea, a sketch, practical knowledge, a test or a different tool. You can help without writing code.
Describe the work.
A frontline worker, manager or executive describes a task, the friction and what a better day would look like. Providers help make time for their teams to contribute.
Shape a working example.
Users, people receiving care and builders explore a sketch or prototype together. Existing tools and different approaches are welcome.
Test, learn and improve.
Start with synthetic examples. Agree safeguards before any authorised field test, listen to the people using it and share what helps and what needs to change.
Care Economy Collective brings people together to improve the care industry through shared ideas, practical tools and honest testing. Membership is free, and taking part does not require buying any product or service.
Expert Connections.
An introduction-only pilot: one intended connection fee, then arrange any adviser work directly offsite. Free participation continues unchanged. Pro bono expressions of interest are open for small and regional, rural and remote providers, subject to criteria and volunteer capacity.
A private LinkedIn
conversation.
Our LinkedIn group is private and listed so people can find it and request to join. Membership and new posts are reviewed by the organisers.
Start with the pinned manifesto, then introduce yourself in the contribution thread. Website membership and LinkedIn group approval are separate.
Keep identifiable care records and confidential service information out of both spaces.