It’s 24th December 2024 and here in Finland we’re already celebrating Christmas. After all, Santa lives in Finland so he gets here first! So with a little time for reflection on the year that’s just passed, here are our highlights of 2024.
A roaring success, our live Carer Webinar Series launched in March 2024, offering homecare workers practical guidance on the key issues affecting them as they do their job. So far we’ve covered resilience, managing stress, coping with grief and loss, plus what good documentation looks like. And we’ve got big plans for 2025! Don’t miss out.
In April 2024, we published the results of our first ever survey of care worker happiness, analysing over 2,000 responses to our in-app Carer Wellbeing Survey, to find out why homecare workers felt happy or sad at the end of their shifts. Grab a copy.
A big focus for us this year was on how we can better support domiciliary care workers to do their job - to make their days smoother, safer and more fulfilling. So we introduced lots of improvements and features to Nursebuddy to do just that, including our Carer Wellbeing Survey, new visit compliance tools and a one-of-a-kind Carer Appreciation Centre.
We have some phenomenal homecare businesses in our Nursebuddy community. So we couldn’t help ourselves but recognise seven of them as part of our Customer of the Month initiative for their exceptional growth journeys, social impact and collaboration with Nursebuddy. Read their stories.
We welcomed another 8 new people to the Nursebuddy team this year, across our bases in Finland, Ireland and the UK.
Cillian, Sandra and Mayuri landed in our Dublin office to supercharge sales
Ilaria and Naseeb joined to bolster our support for customers
Investing in tech talent, we invited two developer trainees into the team, Riku and Mohammed
And most recently, Naseer came on-board to lead our engineering team in Finland
We’re so happy you’re all here.
This year we took our annual gettogether to Alicante, Spain, for a week of sunshine, socialising and strategic planning. We’re a fully remote team spread out across Europe, so this is a great opportunity to step away from the day to day and think big picture together, and for many of us to meet in person for the first time!
After months (if not years) of hard work, we finished the year by passing the first three stages of the Digital Social Care Records DPS, meaning that we are now fully compliant with all capability, financial and security requirements for assured solutions for digital social care records.
We’re now working on the final stage of complying with all national standards for digital social care records - and making speedy progress! - which will allow us to be included very soon in the Assured Supplier List.
Since we started out in 2012, Nursebuddy has supported homecare businesses across the UK & Ireland, Finland, plus parts of Asia, to deliver over 50 million hours of domiciliary care. What a milestone to finish the year on! And after all, that's why we're all here.
We can’t wait until 2025. Will you join us?
Onnellista uutta vuotta! / Happy new year!