Release Notes

Explore our comprehensive application changelog and detailed release notes covering all enhancements to our software.

App Changelog

Cloud – Admin Application

  • Addition of Petty Cash tools to Cloud, including spend and deposit functionality as well as category management.
  • Addition of Administer Messages tool to Cloud. This mirrors the functionality in Windows.
  • Addition of Staff Pocket Management tool – control staff device registrations, Pocket code and more.
  • Addition of Print Care Plan tool allowing users to print all areas of a service user Care Plan, as well as build Print Packs for future use.
  • Addition of Fast Facts editing. Users can now customise and assign the Fast Facts displayed on a Service Users Care Plan.
  • Manage Monitoring now has ‘Additional Facts’ section when assigning a monitoring area to a service user.
  • Bath, Fluid and Food monitoring now contain additional toggle prompts for 2nd Carer, Thickener and Special Diet respectively. 
Cloud – Care Planning Application

  • Addition of new Organisational Level Service Status – including the new Map View.

Application Performance Improvements 

  • Fixed an issue where holiday absences for part of a day were not showing in roster absences.
  • Fixed a report for client email addresses in Group Analysis.
  • Fixed an issue related to viewing the latest Care Review on Care Control Mobile.
  • Fixed an issue related to integrity checks and consent alerts.
  • Fixed an issue related to recording incident forms on new sites.
  • Fixed an issue related to dependency staff categories.

Application Performance Improvements

  • Fixed an issue following the SCF update for Cloud where monitoring with a Note Template that exceeded 8000 characters would cause the page to not load.
  • Fixed an issue where completing SCF in Cloud would create a note where the response text would not show.
  • Fixed an issue relating to alerts being triggered for monitoring areas with no defined recording frequency.

Care Control Windows

  • Resolved an issue where check in/out on days where the payroll ends were being incorrectly flagged as an error inside advanced payroll.

Care Control Cloud

  • Fixes long SCF horizontal select questions not properly wrapping when their width exceeds that of the form.
  • Fixes images within SCF select questions not appearing in preview mode.
  • Adds a start and end date filter to GPConnect.

Cloud – Admin (v0.4.1)

  • Addition of site Privacy Officer feature.
  • Addition of NHS ODS Codes when recording certain contact types.
  • Addition of of temporary version of Service Status tool to the landing screen.
  • Performance improvements to the Alerts & Notifications tool.
  • Performance improvements to the Manage Monitoring tool.
  • Performance improvements to Care Note Analysis tool.

Cloud – Care Planning (v0.5.0)

  • Adjusted the order of reference notes in a Care Review.
  • Addition of reasoning form when accessing a historic service user.
  • Single Custom Form changes, including new form and question types.
  • Performance improvements across Care Planning application.

Cloud – All Applications

  • Addition of logout button to top bar across Cloud.
  • Performance improvements across Cloud.

Care Control Windows (v3.66)

  • Further integration with Single Custom Form functionality in Care Control Cloud.
  • Further integration with SCF Risk Assessments and Incidents.
  • Addition of new SCF Functionality – draft, type, dependencies, new preview.
  • New System Settings – Privacy Officer settings, ability to turn on/off SCF in apps.

Care Control Mobile (v4.81)

  • Addition of Single Custom Form draft access.
  • SCF will load from Risk Assessments and Incidents.
  • Loading of SCF through Cloud will require a user account.
  • Various Performance Improvements.

Care Control Pocket (v2.49)

  • Addition of Single Custom Form draft access via Staff Tools area.
  • SCF will load from Risk Assessments and Incidents.
  • Loading of SCF through Cloud will require user + password.
  • Various Performance Improvements.

Care Control Pocket (v2.48)

  • Updated the character limit displayed for Risk Assessments to 8000 characters

Application Performance Improvements

  • Reports will now load if the Holiday Years are not up-to-date (typically for new sites/sites who don’t use Roster).
  • Added a new report, “Holiday Requests – 12 Months”, which shows all Holiday Requests made within the last 12 months and includes their status.
  • Added a new report, “Multi-Form Custom Monitoring Recordings”, which shows all Multi-Form recordings for the last 6 months.

Application Performance Improvements

  • Resolved an issue with activating old multi-form drafts.
  • Resolved an issue when viewing the Work Record in Pocket so that worked hours from multiple roles are shown.
  • Resolved an issue with document URL uploads in the Document Library.

Application Performance Improvements

  • Stopped Care Review sections showing when not used in any Care Review for 2+ months.
  • Stopped Activity Integrity Check showing for SUs who aren’t being monitored.
  • Stopped message groups showing for deactivated CSGs.

Care Control Mobile (v4.80)

  • Addition of multi-site selection tool for organisations.
  • Performance improvements made to the Care Review.

Care Control Pocket (v2.47)

  • Performance improvements made to Risk Assessments.

Care Control eMAR (v2.33)

  • Addition of multi-site selection tool for organisations.

Care Control Cloud (Admin v0.4.0)

  • New ‘Admin Contacts’ feature added to Admin application on Cloud.
  • Includes Contact addition, removal and editing.
  • Includes Contact searching and filtering.
  • Stopping deactivated Consent types from showing in Cloud when recording a Consent.

Care Control Windows (v3.65)

  • New ‘Try It In Cloud’ feature within Care Control Windows.
  • Associated device settings for ‘Try It In Cloud’.
  • Associated user settings in OM for ‘Try It In Cloud’. 
  • Updated Checklist Ended alert so that empty alerts do not show fire.
  • Amended Personal Allowance alert so that HTML formatting no longer shows in Home Status.
  • Amended V-Book note generation so that care plan notes do not generate for historic service users.
  • Amended code to retrieve service users when a staff member’s shift is assigned to a secondary role.
  • New report: Active Client Personal Allowance – 12 Months
  • Amended code to allow cancelled Supervisions to be re-opened correctly.

Care Control Pocket (v2.46)

  •  Resolved a resulting issue created when Precise Bulk Monitoring is enabled for Personal Care.
Care Control eMAR (v2.32)
 
  • Resolved a resulting issue created from Personal Details on eMAR.
Care Control Mobile (v4.79)
 
  • Amended code to stop deleted documents from showing in the Important Documents area of CC Mobile.

Application Performance Improvements

Care Control Mobile (v4.79)

  • Facial Recognition amendments. Users can now set staff to see their messages when signing in and out of work via Facial Recognition.
  • Design improvements for staff message screen on sign in/out.

Care Control Windows:

  • Staff Note created when changing security access (Basic Care Editing, Administer Medication etc).
  • Help guide URLs updated to direct to CC Learning Hub.
  • Fixed an issue where notes recorded with a date more than 24 hours in the past were having the date adjusted by a day.
  • Amended the code which generates the list of staff and roles in Roster so that services with no permanent service users can still assign shifts to a role.
  • New Reports – “Task Analysis for Long Frequencies” and “Active Staff DBS Details”
Application Performance Improvements

Care Control Windows:

  • Resolved an issue with Check In Out Of Range alert firing for check-ins within the range.
  • Adjusted Care Note creation to allow V-Book-generated care notes to be created by an empty staff record.
  • Resolved an issue where adding a new staff role and making it the primary role was causing linked documents to not show in the staff record.
  • New report – Staff Weekly Assigned Hours
Care Control Cloud:
 
  • Recording Area tool no longer crashes when the menu sidebar buttons are clicked quickly after changing client.
  • The button on the Care Summary, that expands the notes area, now dynamically adjusts its width based on its content.

Application Performance Improvements:

Care Control Cloud:

  • Resolved an issue with the Service Status not loading in CC Cloud when Staff Checklists are set to appear.
  • Corrected a spelling error with the Weight Trend component on the Client Weights dashboard in Insights.

Care Control Windows:

  • Resolved an issue when setting the Holiday Year to a new value.
  • Resolved an issue with the Checklist Instance Ended alert being fired with no content.
  • Updated “Active Staff – Payroll Details” and “Active Staff – All Fields” reports to use the correct fields.
  • New reports – “Prescription Stock Adjustments” (including the new Comment field) and “Client Telephone Numbers”.
Care Control Applications:
 
  • Resolved an issue where allocations for shifts were showing in a black box on CC Mobile and CC Pocket.

Care Control Windows (v3.64)

  •  Database enhancements, including a new version of the LocalDB infrastructure on which Care Control Windows runs.
  • These changes require an install of Care Control Windows from our downloads page. Administrator level access is needed.

Care Control Cloud

  • Record types of risk assessment, including: Bath & Shower, Bed Rail, Burns & Scalds, Falls, General, Generic, Medication, and Movement.
  • Record a list of mental diagnoses.
  • Record mental capacity assessments.
  • Add, edit, and remove medications on the medication profile.
  • Edit cream medications in the medication creams area.
  • Add, edit, and remove personal belongings.
  • Add, edit, and remove service user documents.
  • Add, review, and close health issues.
  • Add a new home care service user, including building their visit templates.
  • Add additional service user licenses.
  • Record a service user leaving.
  • Record a service user returning.
  • Record the death of a service user.
  • Assign the default monitoring types for new service users and retroactively apply them to existing service users.
  • Manage the monitoring of service users.
  • View Care Plan Integrity Check reports for service users.
  • View a System Health Score, analysing usage of all parts of the Care Control System.
Cloud Care Planning v0.3.0
Cloud Admin v0.2.0

Care Control Mobile – v4.78

  •  New look Staff Menu screen.
  • Console Dashboard Improvements and support for 6 digit pins.
  • Performance Improvements.

Care Control Pocket – v2.45

  • Performance Improvements.
Care Control eMAR – v2.31
 
  • Performance Improvements.

Care Control Cloud

  • Added Single Custom Form functionality.
  • Care Review Editing now available.
  • Added further Risk Assessment recording capability (Bed Rails, Burns, Falls, General, Medication, Movement, PEEPs).
  • Added ability to record Mental Capacity Assessments.
  • ‘My Hub’ area rebranding.
  • Further Permission Role editing, including role deletion within each Cloud application.
  • Logout and session timeout fixes.
  • Added ‘deep-link’ functionality to Insights application.

Care Control Pocket

  • Rebranding Changes. 
  • Facial Recognition: Prevents staff from signing in and out if Facial Recognition is activated.

Care Control Mobile

  • Rebranding Changes. 
  • Maintenance Support: Moved to CC mobile for improved functionality. 
  • Facial Recognition: Enhances security by preventing staff from signing in and out with Facial Recognition. 
  • Day Centre Changes: Comprehensive updates to support Day Centres within CC Mobile, including changes to General Note, Activities, Bath, and Resident Select monitoring screens. 
  • Care Review Proposed Changes: Integration of the amazing functionality present in Pocket to Mobile. 

Care Control eMAR

  • Rebranding Changes. 
  • Zero Stock Support: Hospital, On Leave, and Other selection is available even if no stock is assigned to a prescription. 
  • Additional Comment Box: Added to the change stock screen. 

Care Control Windows

  • Reports: Food Intake Analysis, ABC Behaviour. 
  • Extra Age Category on Risk Assessment: 18+. 
  • Ten Additional Custom Fields on CC Windows. 
  • Org Management Fixes and Updates. 
  • Corrections: Removing red flags from any notes, basic editing of incident wording. 
  • Closing Health Issues also removes red flags. 
  • Corrections: Move a note to another staff member. 
  • Incident Drop Down: Change the summary to use a predefined list. 
  • Incident Drop Down: Prevent the use of “Other Entry.” 

Interface

  • Facial Recognition: Moved to paid accounts. 
  • Added support to Internal Auth API to enable CRM to impersonate an account. 

Database Only Fixes / Amendments

  • Report: Contact Details – shows all contacts plus links to service users. 
  • Fix for Client Absences to stop NULL assignments for relevant shifts. 
  • Performance Improvement: Calculating, storing, and accessing resident task statuses is now faster, reducing overall load on the database services. 
  • Resolved various issues with reports, prescription details, linked documents, historical views, and more.

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