Incident management for care homes

From incident to improvement.

The challenge isn't finding information. It's bringing it together around one incident, and turning it into next steps with clear owners. intELIEcare does that, and people stay in charge of every decision.

Policies and procedures
Resident information
Incident history
Operational information
Regulatory requirements
Human responsibilities
INC-2026-0152Awaiting review
Unwitnessed fall, possible head injury
On apixaban · 4th fall in 60 days · CT within 8 hours
What's next
Who decides
What's missing

Staff decide under pressure, with information scattered across six places

Policies and procedures

What does the organisation's policy say should happen?

Resident information

Medical conditions, allergies, medication, risks and care plans.

Incident history

Previous incidents, recurring concerns and outstanding issues.

Operational information

Staff on duty, responsibilities and available resources.

Regulatory requirements

Reporting, safeguarding, notification and statutory obligations.

Human responsibilities

Which decisions need to be made, by whom and by when?

One connected path through every incident

  1. 1

    Understand

    Ask in natural language. Get the clause and what it means here.

  2. 2

    Contextualise

    Connect the incident to the person, their risks and their history.

  3. 3

    Assess

    What happened, what's next, what's missing, who decides.

  4. 4

    Coordinate

    Records, owners, drafts and timelines, created as you go.

  5. 5

    Follow through

    Deadlines tracked and owners reminded until actions close.

  6. 6

    Learn

    Patterns, repeat incidents and root causes across the year.

What it does

Contextual knowledge and information retrieval

Finds the relevant clause, interprets it in context and explains what it means for this situation, rather than returning a document.

  • Natural language questions
  • Policies, procedures, guidance and operational records
  • Clause-level references

Individual and incident context

Brings the resident's circumstances to the incident, so advice isn't generic.

  • Conditions, medication and risk factors
  • Previous falls and other incidents
  • Care plans and risk assessments
  • Family contacts and communication preferences

Incident assessment and decision support

Assesses known facts against procedure and explains the reasoning, while clinical and management decisions stay with the right people.

  • What has happened and what should happen next
  • What remains outstanding or missing
  • Whether escalation or notification may be required
  • Which decisions need human judgement

Action coordination and follow-through

Goes beyond a list of recommendations, and helps manage the actions arising from an incident.

  • Structured incident records
  • Timelines and action logs
  • Actions assigned to roles
  • Draft communications and notifications
  • Deadlines and reminders
  • With approvals, progressed in existing care systems

Management intelligence and learning

Turns incident records into insight that improves how the service operates.

  • Recurring incidents and patterns
  • Repeat incidents involving individuals
  • Trends by type, unit and time
  • Root cause analysis support

intELIEcare prepares. People decide.

Appropriately qualified people keep responsibility for decisions and approvals. Nothing is sent, submitted or closed without one of them.

  • Retrieves and checks
  • Calculates deadlines
  • Drafts letters and notifications
  • Proposes category and grade
  • Schedules and reminds
  • Reports trends
DecisionStays with
999, 111 or GPNurse in charge
Harm grading, moderate and aboveRegistered Manager
CQC notificationRegistered Manager
Safeguarding referralDesignated safeguarding lead
Suspension or NMC referralRegistered Manager with HR
Return quarantined equipmentMaintenance Manager

See it at Larchwood House

A 108-bed care home, answered from its own documents and records.

intELIEcare, built on askelie, the Operational Layer for Enterprise Execution. Clinical and legal decisions always stay with qualified professionals.