Population Health Social Care

Addressing the Rising Cost of Social Care

The cost of social care continues to rise due to multiple factors, including the cost-of-living crisis, long patient waiting lists and an aging population with increasing needs.

Preventative care is significantly more cost-effective than crisis intervention. But identifying individuals at risk of needing imminent increased support needs can prove challenging.

Graphnet’s Population Health tool is a state-of-the-art platform that allows social care teams to proactively identify individuals or groups likely to require urgent social care intervention.

Integration with Market-Leading Systems

Our unique partnership with System C, providers of the market-leading Liquidlogic social care system, ensures seamless integration between shared care and social care systems.

Our CIPHA platform supports groundbreaking projects that use population health data to identify individuals with unmet social care needs.

By recognising vulnerable cohorts before they meet social care thresholds, councils can proactively intervene, offering early, low-level support to prevent hospital admissions, residential care placements and overall deterioration in health and living conditions.

How Population Health Supports Social Care

Graphnet’s Population Health platform offers powerful tools to identify and support individuals most in need of social care interventions.

Below, we have listed some key cases where population health data helps prevent deterioration, support those in need and maximise positive outcomes.

1. Preparation for Adulthood

While many young people are fortunate enough to receive support from friends and family as they transition into adulthood, some are not given that same support. This often leads to crisis-driven, last-minute care that’s high-risk, distressing and costly.

Using population health dashboards, social care teams can identify young adults most in need of multi-agency intervention.

2. Section 117 Aftercare

Section 117 aftercare is an NHS service providing free support to individuals discharged from hospital under certain sections of the Mental Health Act.

The Section 117 dashboard enables councils to securely upload and share patient data on a centralised platform.

3. Early Intervention: Reducing Crisis-Driven Care

Adult social care faces extreme pressures, with high levels of unmet care needs, funding shortages and increasing demands on unpaid caregivers.

Our predictive model, developed with System C’s Liquidlogic, leverages Graphnet Population Health data to anticipate whether an individual is likely to be referred to social care within the next 12 months.