Digital Care in Focus is a new series of campaigns from the Digital Care Hub – starting in January 2026.
Each month, we explore a priority theme, bringing together emerging evidence, practice-based insight, lived experience and system intelligence. Our focus is on translating complex digital, legal and policy developments into plain English, grounded in the realities of care and people’s rights.
Get involved in the discussion and share your views on social media using #DigitalCareInFocus.
Check out our news posts, newsletters and case studies. And register for our related webinars.
Innovation in digital tech and data – January 2026
Innovation in digital technology and data is about deliberately trying new or different ways of using technology or information to improve outcomes, particularly where existing approaches are no longer enough. It involves testing ideas, learning from experience and being willing to take proportionate, informed risks.
Throughout January 2026, we will be sharing insights and ideas on innovation.
- Week 1: What is innovation in digital tech and data?
- Week 2: Digital innovations: what works?
- Case study: Simplifying Outstanding CQC Compliance with IMPAQT for Care
- Case study: Making life more colourful: How Borough Care is using data to prevent falls and improve lives
- Webinar: Care-led innovation: Celebrating home-grown technology in social care – 28 January 2026, 1 – 2.30pm Join fellow care providers who have taken digital innovation a step further. When suitable off-the-shelf solutions didn’t exist, they designed and developed their own tools and systems.
Future themes
Interoperability – February 2026
Difficult conversations about data and tech – March 2026
The world of care has changed. Sensors monitor people in their own homes, care services are trialling the use of robots and AI to plug workforce gaps, and technology has the opportunity to improve choice and control or to remove personal autonomy.
In this series of three webinars, we will bring together experts with diverse perspectives to discuss some of the difficult conversations we tend to avoid when thinking about technology in care. Find out more and book your place.
- People’s right to privacy vs home sensors – 11 March 2026
- Difficult conversations: consent: what does, “agreeing to tech” really mean? – 17 March 2026
- Difficult conversations: Robots vs carers: replacing in-person care workers with tech – 31 March 2026
