PeopleToo: against COVID-19 ^Company

Entity: PeopleToo

Category: HealthTech

Description: PeopleToo supports public sector bodies to improve efficiency and income generation, enhance performance and optimise social outcomes through innovative new operating models, operational change and digital services. PeopleToo is not a digital health or HealthTech company; it is grouped into this category because it is offering a digital health service in the framework of the COVID-19 pandemic. The company advises on areas including Adult social care and health, children’s services, property and facilities management, environmental services, commercial procurement and digital services. PeopleToo helps local authorities and health to create social value and deliver financial and performance outcomes fit for current and future generations. In these times of increasing austerity, they realise that difficult choices have to be made – their role is to help these organisations ‘think differently’ to ensure that together, all the society can arrive at the best solution to deal with not only the immediate short-term pressures, but to ensure sustainability for future generations. Founded in 2009, PeopleToo builds on long term experience and skills developed over the last 15 years across the management team. Passion for improvement in public services and local communities, harnessing the talent of people and creating innovation together with their clients is at the core of what they do. Being this people-focused transformation partner means they combine their clients’ expertise with their own extensive operational and transformation experience in a collaborative approach with the transfer of skills that ensures long term sustainability.

Project: TechForce19 challenge

Summary: People who may be particularly vulnerable or isolated during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, including new parents, the homeless, unpaid carers, young people and cancer patients, could soon benefit from a range of innovative digital solutions selected as part of the TechForce19 challenge. NHSX, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) and the Ministry for Housing Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) have announced 18 innovative digital solutions being awarded up to £25,000 under the TechForce19 challenge. The funding for each project will be used to develop new ways to support vulnerable people who need to stay at home or need other help in the community for extended periods of time.

Peopletoo and Novoville have been selected to launch GetVolunteering, a volunteering app to fast track volunteers into clinical and non-clinical roles to support the fight against COVID-19. It will enable local authorities to quickly identify and assess capable volunteers in the local community to fill key roles to support social care in areas that have been impacted by loss of staffing capacity due to COVID-19, or for new roles that are required during the crisis.

+ Investors:

Techforce19.uk, NHSX. PeopleToo received investment from Techforce19.uk\NHSX, after a call on all innovators who can support the elderly, vulnerable and self-isolating during COVID-19 to apply for government funding of up to £25,000 to test their solution.

Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC)

Ministry for Housing Communities and Local Government (MHCLG)