Brolly for Domiciliary Care

Forty carers. Two hundred visits.
One platform.

Every visit on time, every note timely, every council, broker and self-pay invoice clean. Every timesheets recorded!

The reality of running a dom care service

The five pressures every
care coordinator carries.

Domiciliary services don't fail because carers don't show up. They fail because the system asks coordinators to be in fifty places at once. Brolly is built around what actually breaks.

The rota that never settles
Right carer, right place, right time. Every time.

Skills matched. Continuity preserved. Travel time honoured. Service user preferences respected. Then someone calls in sick at 6:47am and the whole jigsaw scatters. Coordinators spend half their day rebuilding the puzzle.

Visit notes that arrive late or never
The note written at 11pm helps no one.

Carers between visits, parked at lights, eating in the car. Notes catch up at the end of a shift, when memory's faded and the day blurs together. Inspectors and councils want timely, contemporaneous records. Carers want to do their job.

Tasks and medications missed
Did the morning round actually happen?

Personal care, prompts, MAR signatures, the catheter check, the pressure-area turn. A care plan lists thirty tasks per visit. The carer remembers most. The paper records show fewer. Hospital admissions follow what was missed, not what was meant.

Billing nobody else has to do
Six contracts. Ten rate cards. Sixteen reasons for headaches.

Council framework rates, broker rates, NHS CHC, direct payments, private self-pay, weekend uplifts, bank holidays, double-up visits, travel time, mileage. Then the council disputes 14 visits and you're proving every one with paper printouts.

Lone working and the duty of care
Forty carers. Forty front doors. Where are they right now?

A carer hasn't checked in. The phone goes to voicemail. The next visit is in fifteen minutes. Paper rotas tell you where they should be, not where they are. Lone worker safety is a regulatory expectation, a moral obligation, and an operational blind spot all at once.

Sounds familiar? We hear it from every care coordinator. Brolly handles every one of these pressures, quietly, in the background, every rota, every visit, every record.

How Brolly answers

A specific answer for each pressure.

No abstract promises. Here's what Brolly does, every shift, in a domiciliary setting.

01
Rota & scheduling
AI-built rotas with assisted changeover

Skills, availability, continuity, travel time, service user preferences, matched in minutes. Sick call comes in? Brolly identifies qualified, available cover, contacts them, and confirms the visit before you've finished your coffee.

What changes

Coordinators stop firefighting. Continuity scores climb. Visits get covered before service users even know there was a gap.

02
Visit notes in real time
Voice-first capture, Notes recorded instantly

Carers speak observations during the visit. Brolly structures them into visit notes, flags concerns, and writes summaries. No typing in the car. No catching up at midnight.

What changes

Notes are contemporaneous. Quality of detail goes up. Coordinators see issues within minutes, not in tomorrow's review.

03
Tasks & medication
eMAR and task sign-off, in the carer's pocket

Care plan tasks tick off as completed. Medication scanned and signed at the point of administration. Refusals and prompts logged with reasons. Missed doses flagged to the coordinator within minutes, not at the next audit.

What changes

Compliance becomes evidence. Hospital admissions tracked back to root cause. CQC sees a complete trail of what was actually delivered.

04
Invoicing & timesheets
Visit-to-invoice automation across every payer

Verified visits flow through to council, broker, NHS CHC, direct payment and self-pay invoices, each with the right rate card, uplifts, mileage and double-ups applied. Carer timesheets reconciled in the same flow. Disputed visits answered with electronic proof of attendance.

What changes

Invoicing day stops being a week-long event. Cash flow improves. Council disputes resolved with a click, not a paper search.

05
Lone worker safety
Live check-in, geo-verified, escalation built in

Every visit starts with a check-in and ends with a check-out. Late arrivals flagged. Missed check-outs trigger escalation. Coordinators see the live position of every carer on shift, without surveillance, without intrusion.

What changes

Safety becomes provable. Carers know someone is watching out for them. Coordinators sleep at night.

A day inside Brolly

From the 7am round to the 10pm settle.

06:47 · Sick call

Carer texts in unwell. By 06:53, Brolly has identified three qualified carers nearby, contacted them, and confirmed cover for the 07:30 round. Coordinator wakes up to a solved problem.

10:15 · Visit end

Carer reviews and approve her visit notes captured by Brolly while at Mrs J's house. Bowels normal, mood low, eating reduced again. Brolly structures it, flags the eating pattern, alerts the coordinator.

14:30 · Council query

Council disputes 9 visits as not delivered. Coordinator exports the electronic call monitoring proof, check-in, check-out, geo-verified, in 90 seconds. Dispute closed.

22:00 · Day close

All carers checked out. 198 of 200 visits completed (two refused, both logged). Tomorrow's rota already optimised. Invoicing data flowing into next week's billing run.

What changes for you

The dom care service you wanted to run.

75%
Faster rota planning

AI-built schedules in minutes, not hours of spreadsheet wrangling

98%
Notes filed at visit close

Contemporaneous, accurate, structured, not written from memory at midnight

3 days
Faster to invoice

Visit-to-invoice automation across every payer and rate card

100%
Visit verification

Geo-verified electronic call monitoring on every visit, every time

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