iWantGreatCare

iWGC Patient Experience and Outcomes

iWGC's solution harnesses the power of the patient voice to engage staff and patients with real-time, granular feedback proven to increase staff morale and reduce complaints. Includes FFT (including paper), local surveys, advanced analytics, ICS feedback and much more to give rich insights that support service improvements and patient-centred care.

Features

  • Online, SMS, Paper, App, Device and offline methodologies
  • Applies to any level: doctor, service, hospital, Trust, STP/ICS, country
  • Local surveys and ad hoc surveys
  • Real-time reporting
  • Ward to Board level reporting and dashboard analytics
  • Patient safety and hazard email alerts and risk monitors
  • Clinicians personal feedback to support CPD, appraisal and revalidation
  • Fully accessible and multi-lingual
  • Population level feedback for ICSs (Integrated Care Systems)
  • Fully compliant with NHSE Friends and Family Test requirements (FFT)

Benefits

  • Understand performance for every individual service
  • Actionable data and comments to make service improvements
  • Improves safety and reduces risk
  • Proven to increase staff morale and reduce absenteeism
  • Scales to pathways and ICSs/population health
  • Enables benchmarking internally and externally
  • Improves understanding with sentiment and thematic analysis
  • Reduces impact on staff time
  • Supports understanding and measurement of health inequalities
  • Maps to CQC Key Lines of Enquiry/Picker Principles of Care

Pricing

£10,000 to £30,000 a licence a year

Service documents

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Framework

G-Cloud 13

Service ID

6 4 6 3 6 3 0 6 3 3 1 6 7 8 0

Contact

iWantGreatCare Jon Twinn
Telephone: 01608811863
Email: jon.twinn@iwantgreatcare.org

Service scope

Software add-on or extension
No
Cloud deployment model
Public cloud
Service constraints
No
System requirements
A relatively recent browser version of Chrome, IE or Safari

User support

Email or online ticketing support
Email or online ticketing
Support response times
Immediate acknowledgement sent to initiator.
Target initial response within 1 working day, resolving the issue within this time-frame where possible.
If the issue cannot be resolved immediately (e.g. more information is required), target resolution or escalation within 3 working days.
User can manage status and priority of support tickets
No
Phone support
Yes
Phone support availability
9 to 5 (UK time), Monday to Friday
Web chat support
No
Onsite support
Onsite support
Support levels
Licence fee includes full implementation support and ongoing telephone and email support with a named Account Manager.

Additional support days can be purchased as required.

Technical support is standard for all contracts and includes:
- Response to Critical Fault (service unavailability) within 2 hours
- Response to Non-urgent Fault within 1 working day

Technical support is initially reported via the helpdesk or the Account Manager and tickets are assigned to the technical team to resolve.
Support available to third parties
Yes

Onboarding and offboarding

Getting started
We provide:
- onsite setup and implementation support and advice
- onsite training in reporting and management tools
- implementation guide documentation
- online support
- dedicated account manager support
- best practice examples and advice
Service documentation
No
End-of-contract data extraction
All raw data is provided in downloadable format on a monthly basis and can be downloaded from the management interface at any time. We will provide a full data file of all raw data at the end of the contract.
End-of-contract process
Buyer's access to the service is removed and iWGC will no longer process the buyer's data beyond the contractual period. There will be regular notifications from iWGC that the end of the contract is approaching, beginning at six months' notice, giving the buyer plenty of time to download their data or find alternatives if they do not wish to renew the service. Data will be provided back to the buyer at the end of the contract.

Using the service

Web browser interface
Yes
Supported browsers
  • Microsoft Edge
  • Firefox
  • Chrome
  • Safari
  • Opera
Application to install
No
Designed for use on mobile devices
Yes
Differences between the mobile and desktop service
Patient questionnaires and the iWantGreatCare website are automatically resized and optimised for the smaller mobile screen. Less detail is shown on the screen but no content is lost. An app is available for tablet devices with a simpler layout and a separate version for children.
Service interface
No
User support accessibility
WCAG 2.1 A
API
No
Customisation available
Yes
Description of customisation
Users can customise:
- the list of their services to be covered by this service
- the individual users of the service
- additional questions
- bespoke questionnaires (depending on service purchased)
- bespoke dashboards (depending on service purchased)

Scaling

Independence of resources
The technological architecture of the system has been designed in the cloud as a highly scalable platform that automatically scales up to meet demand at busy times e.g. at the end of a reporting month. Dedicated servers for e.g. the analytics dashboards work off separate data extracts (via ETL) so there is no load on the main database. Separate logins are provided for individual users so there is no degradation of service due to concurrent users.

Analytics

Service usage metrics
Yes
Metrics types
The service reports in real time on the number of users and the number of responses left by users via real-time dashboards. This is also summarised in regular (weekly or monthly) reports. A response rate is also reported if the buyer provides the number of eligible respondents. The number of buyer's staff accessing the system based on unique logins can also be provided on request.
Reporting types
  • Real-time dashboards
  • Regular reports
  • Reports on request

Resellers

Supplier type
Not a reseller

Staff security

Staff security clearance
Other security clearance
Government security clearance
Up to Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS)

Asset protection

Knowledge of data storage and processing locations
Yes
Data storage and processing locations
  • United Kingdom
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
User control over data storage and processing locations
Yes
Datacentre security standards
Supplier-defined controls
Penetration testing frequency
At least once a year
Penetration testing approach
In-house
Protecting data at rest
Physical access control, complying with another standard
Data sanitisation process
Yes
Data sanitisation type
Deleted data can’t be directly accessed
Equipment disposal approach
A third-party destruction service

Data importing and exporting

Data export approach
Either:
1. Download of csv files from password-protected management interface.
2. Download of data visualisation pdf reports from password-protected management interface.
3. Access to an analytics dashboard with ability to export selected data.
Data export formats
  • CSV
  • Other
Other data export formats
PDF
Data import formats
  • CSV
  • Other
Other data import formats
Direct data entry via Web-based interface

Data-in-transit protection

Data protection between buyer and supplier networks
TLS (version 1.2 or above)
Data protection within supplier network
TLS (version 1.2 or above)

Availability and resilience

Guaranteed availability
IWGC warrants to the buyer that the software shall be available for use and operate in all material respects in accordance with its intended functions, for not less than 99% of the Initial Service Period.

In the event of a critical Fault, or maintenance being required, the effect of which is to render the Software unavailable for use by the Customer, then for every 8 hours in excess of the agreed Potential Downtime, during which time the Software is unavailable for use, or fails to operate in accordance with its intended functions, the Customer shall become entitled to a service credit (determined based on the value of the contract).

In the event that iWGC fails to meet the response time for a Critical Fault, for every instance beyond the initial instance of this occurring, the Customer shall be entitled to receive a service credit calculated by the number of hours in excess of the stated 2 hour period by which iWGC failed to respond to the Support Request. For each whole hour by which the response time is missed, a credit shall become due to the Customer, (determined based on the value of the contract).
Approach to resilience
The architecture of the service provided by iWantGreatCare has been designed with resilience and availability in mind. Every server is connected to a load balancer so if there is a server fault, traffic will be redirected, so there will be no service disruption. The iWantGreatCare services are provided by Amazon Web Services, which have very strict SLAs and fail-overs that provide max availability and ability to scale up if the load increases.
Outage reporting
E-mail and SMS alerts

Identity and authentication

User authentication needed
Yes
User authentication
Username or password
Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels
Unique username and password access is assigned on an individual basis. User permissions and access levels are assigned to individuals, determining what data and functions they can see. Appropriate access for one individual might be to see only data for the service in which they work whereas 'superusers' could see all data for an organisation.
Access restriction testing frequency
At least every 6 months
Management access authentication
  • 2-factor authentication
  • Public key authentication (including by TLS client certificate)
  • Dedicated link (for example VPN)
  • Username or password

Audit information for users

Access to user activity audit information
Users contact the support team to get audit information
How long user audit data is stored for
Between 1 month and 6 months
Access to supplier activity audit information
Users contact the support team to get audit information
How long supplier audit data is stored for
Between 1 month and 6 months
How long system logs are stored for
Between 1 month and 6 months

Standards and certifications

ISO/IEC 27001 certification
Yes
Who accredited the ISO/IEC 27001
The British Assessment Bureau
ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date
06/01/2022
What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover
Not Applicable
ISO 28000:2007 certification
No
CSA STAR certification
No
PCI certification
No
Cyber essentials
No
Cyber essentials plus
No
Other security certifications
Yes
Any other security certifications
  • ISO 27001
  • Compliance with the requirements of Cyber Essentials

Security governance

Named board-level person responsible for service security
Yes
Security governance certified
Yes
Security governance standards
ISO/IEC 27001
Information security policies and processes
As part of ISO27001 we have the following policies:
Information Asset Risk Assessment
iWantGreatCare Data Protection Policy
iWantGreatCare Disaster Recovery Plan
iWantGreatCare Information Security Policy
iWantGreatCare Remote Working Policy
iWantGreatCare Standards for Internet Usage
iWantGreatCare Standards for the Use of Email
iWantGreatCare Standards of Data Retention
Security Breach Incident Response
iWantGreatCare Third Party Standards

There are information security refresh sessions for all policies and processes on a yearly basis.

Operational security

Configuration and change management standard
Supplier-defined controls
Configuration and change management approach
All changes and new features are created as tasks in a central system (JIRA) and are tracked from idea to deployment in a very detailed manner down to the code snippets that have been added for that specific tasks. Security impact is assessed as part of the development and testing of each task.
Vulnerability management type
Supplier-defined controls
Vulnerability management approach
We run penetration testing on at least an annual basis and evaluate the outcome to ensure compliance with the ISO27001 standard. Important security updates to applications and operating systems are tested and then deployed 'asap' to ensure maximum protection of iWGC systems.
Protective monitoring type
Supplier-defined controls
Protective monitoring approach
IWGC firewalls have intrusion detection and also configuration of application and servers is regularly checked compared to the 'standard' images used. If there is a compromise this follows the ISO27001 defined process in the Information Security policy.
Incident management type
Supplier-defined controls
Incident management approach
Incidents can be reported by internal or external users, these are logged in ZenDesk and/or JIRA and then are processed with urgency from the Product and Technology teams. All Technology actions are logged in JIRA and incident reports are delivered to senior management.

Secure development

Approach to secure software development best practice
Supplier-defined process

Public sector networks

Connection to public sector networks
No

Social Value

Covid-19 recovery

Covid-19 recovery

iWGC actively supports its partners who are dealing with the impact of COVID-19 on its workforce and the ongoing issues this has caused. For example, we do not expect any member of staff to have to enter data into our system or to have to create reports. We process all questionnaires for our partners and create all reports required in our system. This is to ensure there is as little impact on the stretched workforce as possible. We also provide a wide range of methodologies so that the best method, or combination of methods, of data collection can be used in each service, again allowing for flexibility where availability of resources may fluctuate. We offer pre-prepared reports for Patient Experience and Exec teams, providing full thematic analysis and insight for periods of data, saving potentially days of work for staff who would otherwise have to do this manually. Our alerting system tells staff who need to know when they have received a review and can be set to trigger on negative reviews only. This helps staff not waste time by having to look through reviews themselves to find potential issues.
Tackling economic inequality

Tackling economic inequality

iWGC's product is the only patient experience solution to have been co-developed with NHS Trusts to meet the needs of ALL types of patient and service user and ensure no individual is disadvantaged because of their socio-economic status.

This means, for example, a range of easy read options for people with learning difficulties, versions of the feedback questionnaires for children, paper forms where digital access is limited or not possible, versions in ALL NHS-required languages and more, versions with different response scales dependent on physical condition e.g. aphasia, and audio support to read aloud questions.

By also collecting demographics as part of the questionnaires, the system gives you an analysis of how you are doing for different parts of the population based on e.g. gender, ethnicity or age. This helps our partners to measure any health inequalities or variations in experience and take action to address this.

Pricing

Price
£10,000 to £30,000 a licence a year
Discount for educational organisations
No
Free trial available
No

Service documents

Request an accessible format
If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need versions of these documents in a more accessible format, email the supplier at jon.twinn@iwantgreatcare.org. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.