Adult Social Care Testbed
Established in partnership with the National Care Forum, our Adult Social Care Testbed represents a unique collective of care providers, academic experts, technical professionals, people with lived experience and industry leaders. Together, we aim to catalyse the use of provider data, co-design, test and evaluate data-driven and tech-enabled social care solutions, and upskill the care workforce in the Liverpool City Region - setting a new benchmark for innovation in social care and charting an exciting course towards the delivery of care futures.
Testbed Participants
Our Testbed is comprised of 11 not-for-profit adult social care providers who, collectively, support thousands people in the Liverpool City Region. Together, they offer support to people living with a disability, people experiencing mental ill-health and people who are elderly or living with dementia. They assist people in their own homes, in supported living and extra care housing facilities, as well as in residential care settings. Most operate out of established buildings, whilst others are engaged in preparing to open and/or developing new premises.
Get Involved
Are you a company working in care‑related technology? We invite you to collaborate with the Adult Social Care Testbed - a real-world innovation environment backed by the University of Liverpool.
Apply for a small grant and technical support to prototype a data-driven and/or tech-enabled solution involving our Testbed.
Ask the Testbed to host your experiment - explore, develop and test your solution and/or generate Real World Evidence with which to validate your product/service.
Talk to us about repurposing your solution for deployment in the care market (we’ve come across tech brands and solutions which could really benefit people who provide or draw on care that are positioned as kitchen enhancements through to contemporary sportswear – could your product or service, also, be “CareTech”?).
Work with CHIL to evaluate your solution for care providers and professionals, people who draw on social care and/or their families.
Offer an existing solution to an identified need or priority (help us find those tech solutions our Testbed is keen to trial/use).
