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 [...]
How advice and guidance can kickstart the elective recovery There is no doubt that COVID-19 has resulted in further challenges in elective demand and in this paper we propose proven ways to kick start the elective recovery. Prior to COVID-19, NHS waiting lists sat at a 10 year high with [...]
Elective Care: The Road to Recovery Prior to the advent of COVID-19, NHS waiting lists sat at a 10 year high with 4.4 million people waiting for elective care. Over 16% had waited more than 18 weeks and 1,613 people had waited over 52 weeks. Historically, outpatients represent 85% of all UK hospital-based activity - excluding A&E. From April this year, NHS England required hospitals to postpone non-urgent elective care with a massive re-deployment of staff and beds taking place to increase [...]
Assessing COVID-19 Staff who are ‘At Risk’ Attain offer our staff assessment service pro-bono Attain, the UK’s largest independent health advisory and delivery organisation, are extending the roll-out of a pro-bono service to hospitals to provide an assessment of staff ‘at risk’ during the COVID-19 pandemic. During the pandemic many [...]
COVID-19 ICU Preparation Simulation Attain and SIMUL8 launch free Attain, the UK’s largest independent health advisory and delivery organisation, have teamed up with leading software developers SIMUL8 to provide a free COVID-19 ICU preparation simulation. The COVID-19 ICU preparation simulation, which can be downloaded here from SIMUL8, is designed to [...]
Five lessons learnt from a hospital in crisis Winter is here, sending us for our forgotten pullovers and mugs of our favourite hot drinks. But is the NHS ready? In many hospitals this year the pressure typically seen in winter has barely abated before we will be back in the [...]
Patient flow challenges in the NHS We recently partnered with Draper & Dash on their Executive Patient Flow summit which took place in London on 4 October. The focus of the event was patient transformation, promoting system integration, cost improvement initiatives and the value of technology. The event was attended [...]
Acute Service Change: Engaging Patients and the Public Acute hospital service reviews are being undertaken throughout the country with the aim of delivering significant improvements to quality of care, patient safety and efficiency. This, along with more sustainable workforce and infrastructure, should be seen as positive by patients and service [...]
Workforce in the NHS: addressing complex challenges Workforce is finally in the spotlight – but for all the wrong reasons. As the complexity of England’s health and care needs continues to increase so do the workforce challenges facing our health and care system. In a climate of growing [...]
NHS Confederation 2019 - Our highlights We had a busy time in Manchester last month, at NHS Confederation 2019, with a perfectly positioned stand in a busy location and opposite NHS Confederation which was fantastic. The Attain team were armed with a variety of case studies that were aligned to [...]
