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Trial and Adoption of the Green Badge System, a suite of technologies for monitoring and improving hand hygiene compliance in healthcare.

Developing Auto-Motive in conjunction with the Universities of Cardiff and Warwick and the charity Bipolar UK to support people with bipolar disorder which affects 1-2% of the population and costs the NHS £342M per annum.The system uses a smart phone app and sensors to monitor the mood, activities and sleep of users. It is intended to augment self-management programmes where the user is taught to recognise feelings and situations which may lead to a manic or depressive episode. However, because the condition often affects the ability of the person with bipolar to recognise these signs with adverse consequences. As Auto-Motive automatically analyses the data on mood and events which the user enters in the app and the activity and sleep data from the sensors it can provide objective measurements which can alert the user with an early indication of the problem.

Just Right’ proved that the Just Checking activity monitoring system could bring substantial efficiencies to supported living and residential services for adults with learning disabilities. 11 local authorities and their service providers used Just Checking to match service-user needs and get the care ‘just right’ - not too little, not too much - resulting in improved person-centred care for service users and financial savings which exceeded expectations. Return on investment was 500%, with the technology paying for itself within 3 months. Importantly, activity monitoring brought greater insight into the abilities and support needs of service users, leading to more finely-tuned support and better outcomes for service users.