St Helena Hospice has facilities across Essex and provide palliative care to people with incurable diseases, including Motor Neurone Disease, heart failure, cancer, AIDS, and lung disease. Their team provide homecare and also bereavement services for those experiencing the death of a loved one. The charity wanted to update from paper-based incident reporting to a data management software system, for better quality data recording and retrieval with more automation in place.
As a charity organisation reliant on donations for most of their costs, the hospice needed to find data management software that provided them with the risk management, facilities management, and incident and complaints reporting processes they needed without breaking the bank. Quality Lead David Traynier ultimately chose Vantage Technologies as the organisation’s data management software providers, as we could provide them with a platform geared to their requirements, including Care Quality Commission (CQC) compliance, but without exorbitant costs.
“St Helena Hospice has been using Vantage Technologies data management software since 2016. In that time, the system has proven itself to be powerful, flexible, and easy to configure and use. The effect it has had on the quality of our, previously paper-based, incident reporting has been nothing short of transformative.”
“We now use the system to manage incidents, complaints, our Risk Register, our Record of Processing Activities for GDPR compliance, and an asset register for our Estates and Facilities Team. In the time that we have used Vantage’s software, we have seen it upgraded to a substantially more modern platform, bringing with it a greatly expanded range of functions; with version updates released monthly.”
Cost Effective Data Management Software
David found our platform to be the best fit for his organisation due to our understanding the needs of an SME like St Helena Hospice – as we are one ourselves! We work with hospices and other charity organisations across the country and are proud to have become a specialist for data management in this important area of healthcare in the UK.
Our combination of cost-effectiveness and excellent customer support have made us the best choice for David: “The advantage for us over competing systems is that [Vantage] provides us with a set of tools that are useful but also scalable – and affordable – to a medium-sized charity.”
“As a company, Vantage has always been very easy to work with: they are helpful, flexible, and always receptive to suggestions and feature requests. One is never dealing with an impersonal monolith but always with a human being with whom one can build a real working relationship. I would never hesitate to recommend Vantage to a fellow healthcare provider.”
