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Care Home Vacancy Information System - VIS

The VIS system is principally used by social services staff working for local authorities who need to place discharged hospital patients into a care home.

There is a new government initiative to ensure that patients who are fit to leave hospital do so promptly and this system permits social services staff to search for suitable care home vacancies to ensure that this happens. Currently the system has details on over 1300 care homes. The system is also available to members of the public.

VISION is currently used by the 4 local authorities in Avon, North Somerset Council, Bath & North East Somerset Council, Bristol City Council, and South Gloucestershire District Council and also by Oxfordshire County Council and Surrey County Council

Key Features    
  • Home managers update their own home and vacancy details.
  • A user can search by a wide range of criteria, including type of home, facilities available, client types accepted, location and price.
  • Users can save the details of a search and view these at a later date.
  • Where no suitable vacancy is available a user can be emailed by the system when one occurs at a chosen home.
  • Virtual tours of many of the homes are available.

    Technicalities :
  • The system was written in C# and ASP.Net
  • The home data is stored in a SQLserver database.

    To see the system go to www.carevista.net and login as a member of the public. (This gives you limited access to the site) Some sample pages from the system are shown below.

    User guide :
  • You can read the official user guide here
  • Login
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    Home Search
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    Vacancy Summary
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    Home Details
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    Home Update
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    Vacancy Update
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    User Details
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    Useful Links
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    User group details
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