In short: With Heddfa you can build your own scored assessment templates — define the fields, assign points, set the risk bands — and use them across the home immediately, without waiting on a vendor to build them for you. Same scoring engine and review-date logic as the standard clinical tools. From £10 per resident per month, staff free.
Every home has assessments the off-the-shelf list doesn’t cover: an oral-health check, a wellbeing or “this is a good day” score, a bespoke falls follow-up, a local-authority form. With most software your only options are to keep those on paper or to raise a change request and wait — sometimes for a release, sometimes for a quote. Neither is good enough.
Build it yourself, in minutes
- Define the fields. The questions and inputs your assessment needs, in your own words and your home’s terminology.
- Assign the points. Give answers scores, and the total is calculated server-side — the same reliable arithmetic behind Waterlow and MUST.
- Set the bands. Map score ranges to risk bands, and let review dates follow the band automatically, just like the standard tools.
A first-class part of the record
Custom assessments aren’t a bolt-on that lives off to one side. They’re scored, banded, review-tracked and audited exactly like the built-in ones, and they surface on the compliance dashboard when a review is due. Your tool, treated as seriously as ours.
Why this matters for small homes
This is the kind of flexibility usually reserved for big customers with the leverage to commission bespoke work. Building it into the product — for everyone, at no extra cost — is deliberate. A 15-bed home should be able to shape its own assessments without a purchase order or a wait. Care technology shouldn’t be a privilege of the big.