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What's new in Heddfa

Small and nimble means shipping every few weeks, not every few years. Everything below went to every customer, at no extra cost — there are no "premium" releases.

July 2026 A big month for tailoring Heddfa to your home and for keeping families in the loop..
  • Build your own assessments. Design your own scored assessment forms — your fields, your answer points, your result bands — and complete them against any resident, right alongside the built-in Waterlow, MUST, Falls and Moving & Handling tools.
  • Two-way family messages. Relatives and staff can now message each other through the family portal. Staff-authored updates stay separate from your clinical notes — families only ever see what you choose to share.
  • NHS & GP Connect. Every resident record now validates the NHS number, holds GP practice details, and shows a read-only GP Connect view with a DSCR compliance check at a glance.
  • Inspection-ready exports. Export a resident's or the whole home's audit trail to CSV for a date range — handy evidence for CIW/CQC.
July 2026 The daily medication and turning schedule is now a single home-wide worklist with a finish line — so nothing quietly gets missed..

The daily medication and turning schedule is now a single home-wide worklist with a finish line — so nothing quietly gets missed.

  • One round, every resident. Medications and repositioning turns for the whole home on one day-view — grouped into Still to do / Later today / As required / Done — and recordable inline without opening each resident's record.
  • NEWS2 on every set of obs. Vital signs are scored for deterioration automatically, with a clear risk band and escalation prompt.
  • Weight-trend flags. Each weight shows the change and percentage since the last reading, flagged when it moves 5% or more.
  • Stock & controlled drugs. Per-medication stock levels and a tamper-evident controlled-drug register that requires a second signatory on every movement.
  • Occupancy at a glance. A new dashboard for capacity, void beds, occupancy percentage and upcoming move-ins and move-outs.

July 2026 Less time writing the handover, more time on the floor..

Handover on one page. A printable per-day handover, composed automatically from the day's records — each resident's medication exceptions, missed turns and open or new incidents, ordered attention-first, ready for the oncoming shift.
Compliance dashboard. Overdue care-plan and risk-assessment reviews, outstanding notifiable events, open incidents and missed medications — with counts and drill-through — now also a tab on your Home screen.
Invoicing & fees. Record each resident's funding and weekly fee, then draft, issue and track invoices that auto-seed from that fee.

July 2026 Meeting your statutory duties, and getting around the system quicker..

Notifiable events. Flag any incident as CIW/CQC-notifiable, RIDDOR, DoLS or safeguarding and move it through Raised → Under investigation → Notified → Closed, with statutory deadline clocks and a one-click export of the notification record.
Incident management. Log, investigate and resolve incidents with follow-up actions and a full audit trail behind every change.
Global search & quick-add. Jump to any resident or record — or add a new one — from a search box in the header, wherever you are in the app.

July 2026 A safe window for relatives, and the bedside charts your team fills in every day..
  • Family portal. Give a consented relative their own secure login to a timeline about their loved one. Every stream respects the consent you set, nothing clinical is exposed, and staff stay in full control of what's shared.
  • Food & fluid charts with a daily hydration target and progress at a glance.
  • Repositioning / turn charts that flag when a turn is overdue.
  • Continence charts to spot patterns early.
  • All designed to be recorded at the bedside, on a phone, in seconds.
July 2026 The foundations: care plans, eMAR and risk assessments.

A safe window for relatives, and the bedside charts your team fills in every day.

  • Family portal. Give a consented relative their own secure login to a timeline about their loved one. Every stream respects the consent you set, nothing clinical is exposed, and staff stay in full control of what's shared.
  • Food & fluid charts with a daily hydration target and progress at a glance.
  • Repositioning / turn charts that flag when a turn is overdue.
  • Continence charts to spot patterns early.
  • All designed to be recorded at the bedside, on a phone, in seconds.

July 2026 The core of the record — everything a small home does every single day..
  • Person-centred care plans. Capture needs by domain, desired outcomes and planned interventions, with scheduled reviews and clear overdue-review flags.
  • eMAR. Record every medication round — given, refused, missed or not available — with witnessing for controlled drugs.
  • Risk assessments. Waterlow, MUST, Falls and Moving & Handling, scored into a risk band with the next review date worked out for you.
  • Emergency "This is me" summary. A print-ready one-pager for every resident, for hospital or an emergency — sharing only what the resident has consented to.
  • Vital signs, clinical flags (DNACPR/ReSPECT, DoLS) and a complete audit trail on everything, from day one.
July 2026 The daily medication and turning schedule is now a single home-wide worklist with a finish line — so nothing quietly gets missed..
  • One round, every resident. Medications and repositioning turns for the whole home on one day-view — grouped into Still to do / Later today / As required / Done — and recordable inline without opening each resident's record.
  • NEWS2 on every set of obs. Vital signs are scored for deterioration automatically, with a clear risk band and escalation prompt.
  • Weight-trend flags. Each weight shows the change and percentage since the last reading, flagged when it moves 5% or more.
  • Stock & controlled drugs. Per-medication stock levels and a tamper-evident controlled-drug register that requires a second signatory on every movement.
  • Occupancy at a glance. A new dashboard for capacity, void beds, occupancy percentage and upcoming move-ins and move-outs.
July 2026 A big month for tailoring Heddfa to your home and for keeping families in the loop..
  • Build your own assessments. Design your own scored assessment forms — your fields, your answer points, your result bands — and complete them against any resident, right alongside the built-in Waterlow, MUST, Falls and Moving & Handling tools.
  • Two-way family messages. Relatives and staff can now message each other through the family portal. Staff-authored updates stay separate from your clinical notes — families only ever see what you choose to share.
  • NHS & GP Connect. Every resident record now validates the NHS number, holds GP practice details, and shows a read-only GP Connect view with a DSCR compliance check at a glance.
  • Inspection-ready exports. Export a resident's or the whole home's audit trail to CSV for a date range — handy evidence for CIW/CQC.

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