Still Me vs mCare: What’s the Real Difference?
Person-centred activity evidence is something a lot of care homes assume their existing care records already cover. After 35 years working in care, I’ve seen homes get marked down at inspection because that assumption turned out to be wrong. If you’re weighing up PCS’s mCare digital care planning system against Still Me, here’s what actually sets them apart.
Still Me isn’t a replacement for mCare; it’s the activity-specific evidence layer that sits alongside it.
What mCare Actually Does
mCare, part of PCS Digital Care Planning, is the clinical and care-record system most homes already run day to day: care plans, clinical notes, and general documentation across the whole service. It’s comprehensive for the job it’s built to do.
What it isn’t built to do is capture person-centred activity evidence at the level of detail CQC increasingly expects. General care notes can confirm an activity was recorded, but that’s partial coverage, not an activity-specific evidence pack mapped to individual regulations.
What Still Me Is Actually For
Still Me is built specifically to log activity participation and turn it into CQC evidence, mapped directly to Regulation 9 (Person-Centred Care), Regulation 10 (Dignity and Respect), Regulation 17 (Good Governance), and Regulation 18 (Staffing), plus a Family Dashboard so relatives can see the engagement happening in real time. It also includes its own activity library: printouts, PDFs, and other digital materials, alongside physical items delivered directly to the care home, so it’s not just an evidence layer sitting on top of mCare’s records; it gives coordinators material to actually run sessions with.
Most homes running mCare don’t need to replace it. What they need is genuine person-centred activity evidence sitting alongside their existing care records, proving that the activity work already happening is meeting the standard CQC expects.
Comparing Still Me and mCare Side by Side
Note: Still Me’s activity content library covers printouts, PDFs, digital materials, and physical items delivered to the home, distinct from mCare, which doesn’t provide activity content. mCare’s real-time logging covers clinical and care notes generally, and its family portal features are limited rather than absent; both marked accordingly above.
Why Person-Centred Activity Evidence Matters at Inspection
CQC inspectors don’t just want to know activities are happening; they want to see it proven, the same way you’d prove medication administration or safeguarding actions. A home can run comprehensive general care records through mCare and still get marked down under Well-Led or Person-Centred Care, simply because there’s no auditable trail showing who participated in activities, how often, and what impact it had. That’s the exact gap Still Me was built to close.
Beyond the Software: Weekly Coaching for Coordinators
Activity coordinators are often working alone, without anyone else in the building who fully understands what the job involves. Still Me includes weekly coaching sessions through The Coordinator’s Table, where coordinators can network with peers and plan resident by resident, especially for those who are hardest to reach: cognitive, sensory, behavioural, or end-of-life needs.
Which One Do You Actually Need?
Already using mCare
Keep it. Still Me sits alongside it and turns the activity work you’re already doing into inspection-ready evidence, without duplicating your general care records.
Need whole-service care planning
That’s mCare’s strength: comprehensive digital care records across the whole home.
Need to prove person-centred care
That’s what Still Me provides: a regulation-mapped activity evidence pack covering every resident, including the hardest to reach, going further than general care notes allow.
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