Tools & services

Planning4care provides a range of standard tools, outputs and bespoke services, including:

Standard package

  • Strategic needs assessment report for your local area
  • Web-site access to the analysis tool
  • Scenario mapping: projecting care scenarios
  • Briefings on the analysis and the use of the website tool

Added-value services

  • Mapping needs and service use at neighbourhood level
  • Regular data updates
  • Bespoke analysis, e.g. gap-analysis and ‘what-if’ scenarios
  • Workshops to support development of commissioning strategies

Planning4care costs

Download an example Planning4care report

Download a Planning4care order form

The Planning4care team

The Planning4care team comprises senior consultants from Care Equation Ltd and Oxford Consultants for Social Inclusion (OCSI). We have pooled our specialist skills for the specific purpose of developing strategic needs assessment tools and analysis services to support forward planning for long-term care.

  • Care Equation is a social and health care consultancy with a strong track record in public sector work. Established for nine years, the company supports organisations in profiling need, developing service strategies, planning in a multi-agency context, monitoring and reviewing performance and evaluating outcomes. Care Equation has an extensive client list across the public, voluntary and academic sector and is an approved provider for the Department of Health, CSCI, SCIE, and the National Council for Voluntary Organisations. www.care-equation.co.uk

  • Oxford Consultants for Social Inclusion (OCSI) bring specialist skills in analysis and modelling to help the public sector develop and interpret the evidence-base for programme planning, targeting, monitoring and evaluation. OCSI clients include national, regional and local organisations from across the UK. OCSI is a spin-out company from the University of Oxford team that developed the Index of Multiple Deprivation. www.ocsi.co.uk