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Covid-19: Harnessing what we have learned to deliver services during the second wave Winter pressures on the healthcare system are likely to be compounded this year by a resurgence of Coronavirus, making it of critical importance to draw on the lessons learned during the first wave of the pandemic as [...]
Cancer Workforce Planning: 5 Key insights As we grapple with the return of COVID to our hospitals at scale, workforce planning is more critical than ever if patients are to have timely access to cancer services. The Long Term Plan has set out a series of new objectives for meeting [...]
Diagnostics and Cancer Modelling: Five Critical Features Across the NHS, services are grappling with a common question: what will demand look like over the coming months and years and how can we manage it? The COVID-19 national lockdown has created considerable disruption to the provision of cancer care. Performance figures [...]
Elective Services: One System, One Waiting List Covid-19 has clearly had a significant impact on the provision of elective services. It has been reported that nearly 50,000 people are now waiting more than a year for elective treatment. Even prior to the advent of Covid-19, NHS waiting lists sat at a [...]
Phase 3 Planning: Developing Realistic Workforce Plans This month every STP/ICS needs to submit a series of planning returns as part of the Phase 3 Planning Submission. Attain are helping systems across England to model different scenarios at scale to see the impact of a range of recovery strategies on the availability and productivity of workforce. [...]
Covid-19 and Cancer: The innovate and adapt approach There can be no doubt that the Covid-19 Pandemic has had a profound effect on our Health and Care systems, but it has also provided some opportunity for services to innovate and adapt at pace.Since the start of the Covid-19 Pandemic, Cancer Services [...]
Working together to source hospital supplies during Covid-19 Jon Edwards shares his experiences supporting the Covid-19 response for the West Yorkshire Association of Acute Trusts (WYAAT) by sourcing supplies of much needed resources, including PPE, for hospitals across the region. The procurement and supply chain teams have had a challenging few [...]
The ingredients for successful place-based digital transformation: Rotherham Place Attain were recently commissioned to work with health, social care and third sector organisations from across Rotherham, on the planning of a large place-based digital transformation programme. Our work has helped to refine the scope of the programme, develop the benefits case and establish the mechanisms for programme funding. Throughout this work, we [...]
To operate or not to operate? Prioritising your surgical waiting list The impact of coronavirus is now embedded into our ways of working and how we deliver healthcare services. As trusts continue to manage the reducing number of cases, the focus is now on reinforcing cancer and urgent surgery and [...]
