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Care apps built for Birmingham families, carers and care homes.

Codeeo offers senior care app development Birmingham care providers can shape around their own people. We build apps for domiciliary agencies and residential homes across the city, from Sutton Coldfield to Selly Oak. Carers get their visits, care plan tasks and medication records on one phone screen. Office teams manage rotas and records together, and relatives receive updates they can actually follow. The app keeps accurate care records; it never replaces professional clinical judgement.

Birmingham is one of the most diverse cities in Britain, and many older clients live in households where several generations share the caring. A good app respects that, with room for faith, food and language preferences and for more than one relative to stay involved.

Built for
Domiciliary care agencies, supported living teams and residential care homes serving Birmingham and the wider West Midlands.
Typical timeline
Set together during discovery calls, after the first release is scoped and the priorities are written down and approved by you.
What you own
The code, the app store accounts, the office system and all client and staff records, registered to your organisation and never held back.
Rated
4.7 / 5 from 23 Google reviews

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Features we can build

What a Birmingham care team needs in its hands.

Older people in Birmingham are cared for in very different settings: a terraced house in Small Heath with family upstairs, a flat in a Ladywood tower, a bungalow in Hall Green, or a residential home in Erdington. Carers working those rounds need an app that is quick, respectful and clear about what each person wants. Families, often very involved, want to know a visit happened and how their parent seemed. Managers want records that stand up to scrutiny from commissioners and from CQC. We choose and order the features with you, starting with the ones your carers would miss most if they disappeared tomorrow. None of them diagnose or recommend treatment. They record care accurately, so nurses, GPs and pharmacists working with your clients have reliable information to go on.

Explain your project
  • Personal preferences in the care plan

    Fields for faith practices, prayer times, diet, preferred names, language spoken at home and whether the client prefers a carer of the same gender. These preferences appear on the carer's screen before each visit, not buried in a document in the office. When a preference changes, such as during Ramadan or after a hospital stay, the update reaches every carer on that client's rota straight away.

    Care that fits the person, shown at the moment it matters.

  • Carer matching

    Coordinators see which carers speak the client's language, meet gender preferences and live near the round, alongside availability and training. Suggestions are a starting point; the coordinator always makes the final choice and records why. Over time this builds steady teams around each client, which families across the city tell providers they value more than almost anything else.

    Better matched visits, built from data your team already holds.

  • Family circle updates

    Many Birmingham clients have several relatives sharing the caring role. With proper consent, the app lets more than one family member receive visit confirmations and notes, with each person's access set separately and every message kept on record for the office to see. Relatives can choose how often they hear from you.

    The whole family hears the same news at the same time.

  • Visit recording and timed notes

    Check in, check out, task lists and short notes written while the visit is fresh. Prompts remind carers about hydration, meals and personal care tasks set in the plan, and the office sees immediately when a visit is late or missed. Notes can be dictated and then checked, which helps carers who write more comfortably in another language.

    A clear record of every call, written on the spot.

  • Medication administration records

    Each dose given, refused or unavailable is logged against the medication list your staff maintain from the prescription. The app flags late or missing entries to the office. It never suggests doses or changes; that stays with the prescriber and your trained staff. Medicine lists can show names as written on the packaging, which helps carers check the right item.

    Medication gaps caught in hours, not at the next audit.

  • City centre and route planning

    Rotas that account for travel across the ring road and out to suburbs such as Kingstanding or Northfield. Carers who drive can note whether their vehicle is affected by the Clean Air Zone inside the A4540 Middleway, so coordinators route compliant cars into the city centre.

    Rounds that make sense on a real Birmingham map.

  • Care home resident records

    For residential homes, daily records, activity notes, visitor bookings and a shift handover that shows what changed since the last team was on duty. Residents' preferences sit in the same profile as their care tasks, so agency staff covering a shift see the same detail as the permanent team and do not need to hunt for a folder.

    Every shift starts with the full picture.

  • Safeguarding and incident log

    A structured way to record falls, concerns, complaints and near misses, routed to the registered manager with the follow up tracked until closed. The app holds the facts; your policies and the local authority's procedures guide the response. Managers see open concerns by area and carer, and each record shows who was informed, from family to the council's adult social care team, and when.

    Concerns recorded properly the first time.

  • Recruitment and onboarding

    Applicants apply from their phone, upload right to work documents and references, and track their progress. Once hired, new carers complete induction checklists and see their training record in the same app. Managers see who is ready for shadow shifts and whose DBS check is still pending.

    New Birmingham carers reach their first round sooner, with nothing skipped.

  • Office dashboard and exports

    Live visit status, late and missed calls, training renewals, open incidents and exports for invoices and contract monitoring, filterable by area, coordinator or funder. Each number links to the visits or records behind it, so a manager can move from a weekly trend to a single late call without asking someone to pull the data.

    Managers see their whole service in one view.

Who this is for

Where a Birmingham provider gets the most from a custom app.

As senior care app developers Birmingham providers can work with remotely, we are most useful when the off the shelf tools do not quite fit how your service runs. These four situations come up again and again in conversations with care organisations across the city and the wider West Midlands. In each case the app is a tool for your registered manager and carers, designed around your policies, not a replacement for the people who know your clients best. Each starts with a short discovery call.

01

An agency serving culturally diverse communities

If your clients and carers speak Punjabi, Urdu, Bengali, Polish or other languages at home, care plans need to carry that information properly. We design profiles that hold language, faith and diet preferences, and matching tools that use them, so a client in Sparkbrook or Handsworth meets carers who understand what matters to them. Office staff stop relying on memory, and new coordinators get up to speed faster because the knowledge sits in the system. Carers can also flag when a preference needs updating.

Preferences captured once, respected on every visit.

02

A group with homes across the West Midlands

Providers running homes in Birmingham, Solihull and the Black Country need one standard across sites. We build shared resident records, handover screens and reporting, with each home manager seeing only their residents and directors seeing the group. Staff who cover shifts at another home find the same screens and the same terms, which cuts mistakes during busy weeks. Group reports compare homes on the same measures, so directors can spot where support is needed rather than guessing from phone calls.

03

A growing agency outgrowing spreadsheets

When rotas live in a spreadsheet and care notes live on paper in the client's home, growth gets risky. We help you move to an app in stages, starting with the rota and visit records, then medication and family updates. Each stage is tested with a small group of carers before rolling out, so the change does not land on everyone at once. We also bring across existing client details and staff records, checking them with your coordinators so nothing important is lost in the move.

Small steps, tested before each rollout.

04

A provider building a family facing service

Some Birmingham families pay privately and expect more contact than a weekly phone call. We build a branded family app that shows upcoming visits, recent notes and messages to the office, with consent recorded properly. It sits on top of your care records rather than copying them, so there is only one version of the truth and staff do not type the same note twice. Relatives in other cities, or abroad, can follow along without calling the office, and you control which updates each family receives.

How we take a Birmingham care app from idea to daily use.

  1. 01Understanding your serviceVideo calls with your registered manager, coordinators and carers to map rounds, care homes, funders and the preferences your clients care about most. We also listen to a couple of families where possible.
  2. 02Deciding what the first release doesA written scope listing user types, features, data held and family access rules, approved by you before any design work begins. Anything left out is listed too, with a reason, so the backlog is clear from day one.
  3. 03Designing for carers and familiesScreens with large text, few taps and plain language, reviewed by carers who will use them on rounds across the city and by relatives. Prototypes are clickable, so feedback is based on real use rather than pictures.
  4. 04Building the office toolsRota planning, matching, reporting and incident tracking connected to the carer app, with permissions matching each person's role. Coordinators review each tool in short demos as it takes shape, so changes happen while they are still cheap to make.
  5. 05Pilot with one teamA small group of carers and clients tries the app on real rounds, and we fix what they find before the wider rollout. The pilot round is chosen with you, often one area of the city with a stable team.
  6. 06Ongoing improvementMonthly releases based on feedback, contract changes and new requirements, with care records protected through every update. Each release is tested against your live workflows first, and carers get a short note explaining what has changed and why.

Technology

What we build this with.

iOS and Android apps from one shared codebase, a browser based office system and UK hosting agreed with you. Offline recording is standard, because signal fails in tower block stairwells and older terraces alike. We favour well supported tools so another developer could take over later.

01Mobile

  • Swift
  • Kotlin
  • Flutter
  • React Native

02Data and cloud

  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • MongoDB
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • Docker

03Marketing and tracking

  • GA4
  • Google Tag Manager
  • Search Console
  • Meta Pixel
  • Looker Studio

What Birmingham care providers ask us.

It depends on the scope agreed in discovery.

A focused app covering rotas, visit notes and medication records takes far less time than a group platform with care home modules, family apps and integrations. We write the scope and the delivery plan together, with dates agreed before design starts, so your managers can plan training around them and avoid launching during the winter pressure months. If priorities change part way, we show the effect on timing in writing before anything moves.

Tell us what the business needs. We will tell you what to build first.

Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.

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PROVEN RESULTS

4.7 / 5from 23 Google reviews