Elective Services: One System, One 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. [...]
Learning Disability Services: Keeping staff who care The news that there will be extra funding for learning disability nursing apprenticeships is obviously very welcome to the sector, which has struggled with falling numbers of registered nurses over the last five years. When a cohort of new nurses comes through, we [...]
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 [...]
Population Health Management as a must have, rather than a nice to have To date Population Health Management (PHM) has been a ‘nice to have’ part of health and care planning, often seen as a high-level theoretical approach, useful perhaps for strategic ends, but not necessarily operational ones. Particularly, the [...]
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 [...]
Modelling the unknown: filling the gap in mental health demand and capacity modelling Demand and capacity modelling in mental health is difficult Accurate demand and capacity modelling in mental health, where the vast majority of provision is community based, has always been challenging. Demand for mental health services is hard to predict across a [...]
Population Health Management requires a shift in focus Population Health Management is confusing Population Health Management (PHM) is an increasingly popular term in health and care circles, bringing with it a range of often confusing definitions (Link) and a set of equally confusing terms including social determinants, data lakes, segmentation [...]
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 [...]
