Supplying the NHS – a year on, what has the pandemic taught us? Attain have considerable experience in shaping, managing, and supporting NHS Trusts and CCG commissioners to undertake procurements and advise on commercial considerations and supply chain implications across the health sector. Rod Skinner and Jonathan Edwards, Senior Managers [...]
Elective Restoration: when to re-start As Covid levels continue to decrease in most areas of the country the NHS is looking forward to restoring elective services for the second time. Given waiting lists are at a 10-year high there is a pressing need to re-start elective services as safely and [...]
Procurement Regulation Attain have recently submitted our consultation response to the Government’s Procurement Green Paper ‘Transforming Public Procurement’ and are in the process of establishing our response to the NHS White Paper, ‘Integration and Innovation: working together to improve health and social care for all,’ for the April 2021 deadline. [...]
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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 [...]
