Urgent and Emergency Care: What's next? There has been no shortage of news stories highlighting the pressure in our Accident and Emergency (A&E) departments and no more so than now as we head into winter with the knowledge that across the country A&E’s are not meeting their performance targets. As [...]
Diagnostics: Working together to deliver change The pressure faced by diagnostic services is ever-growing. There is increasing attention on the achievement of RTT waiting times, faster cancer diagnostic standards and improving patient outcomes and so diagnostic services, such as imaging, endoscopy and pathology, are faced with playing their vital part [...]
Agile working in the NHS: How can you benefit? When we think of ‘agile working’ we don’t immediately associate it with the NHS. Yet agile is increasingly being used within the health and social care context. For example, agile working is often mentioned in Matt Hancock’s speeches, it is present [...]
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 [...]
NHS Trust procurement…what next? The radical change in NHS national procurement to leverage economies of scale and have central procurement ‘towers’ provided by category professionals certainly looked good when it was presented four years ago... The NHS Acute Trust procurement community agreed with the principle but bitter experience told them [...]
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 [...]
A ‘Hub’ approach can improve quality, integrate care, and increase capacity Both the NHS Long Term Plan (2019) and the overdue government green paper on social care reflect integrated care as key to managing growing demand and improving patient access. Good models of integrated care will include prevention, self-care and [...]
Primary Care Networks: laying the path to success The readily awaited Primary Care Network Development Prospectus was released recently (August 2019) and clearly sets the tone, expectations and windows for achievement for networks in the coming years. The prospectus articulates the process and need for support based on two critical [...]
Integrated Urgent Care (111) services in Yorkshire and Humber project shortlisted in HSJ Awards 2019 Greater Huddersfield CCG and Attain Health Management Ltd are delighted to announce that their ‘Integrated Urgent Care (111) services in Yorkshire & Humber’ project has been shortlisted for the System Leadership Initiative of the [...]
