Cheshire and Chester pick Liquidlogic

Cheshire West and Chester Council has selected Liquidlogic’s integrated children’s system and integrated adults’ system, the health and social care software specialists have announced.

Liquidlogic said its Protocol Integrated Children’s System and Integrated Adults’ System were chosen by the local authority to meet the needs of its social transformation agenda after it ran a tender process through the Official Journal of the European Union.

The supplier said its two systems will be integrated with each other allowing the sharing of relevant data between the council’s children and adult teams and providing social workers with a more complete picture of a child or adult’s care requirements.

Liquidlogic said both systems would also be integrated with the finance functionality for health and social care services and the council would have the option to integrate with additional health and social care agencies to achieve wide-reaching collaborative working.

Brenda Dowding, executive member of adult social care at the council, said the new system would enable care staff in both services to spend more time with vulnerable adults and children.

She added: “Liquidlogic’s track record means that they understand that children’s and adults’ services teams have different requirements This has enabled us to adapt each system accordingly and has meant we have avoided having to adopt a ‘one size fits all’ approach which would have been restrictive and not very user friendly for our practitioners.”

Liquidlogic said it scored highly on all scenarios tested in the OJEU procurement and proved to be one of the most user-friendly systems available. It said the council was also impressed by its track record of supplying solutions to more than 50 councils in England, with many councils implementing the adults’ system after using the ICS.

Denise Harrison, director and founder of Liquidlogic, said: “Cheshire West and Chester’s forward thinking decision to acquire and integrate ICS and IAS shows that its transformation agenda is set to bring the council to the forefront of best practice."

Harrison added: With its commitment to collaborative working between children’s and adults’ health and social care services, Cheshire West and Chester is focussing on delivering the best level of care possible – rather than simply on meeting legislative requirements.”

The council plans to go live with both systems by summer 2011.