Project Description
Objectives
As part of a wide-ranging engagement within a STP Attain were employed to provide operational and strategic support to the A&E Delivery Board and the wider Urgent and Emergency Care system to allow for the delivery of a range of short and medium-term interventions to support immediate financial and operational pressures including winter resilience.
This included:
- Rationalisation of interventions across the UEC system
Demand modelling of expected demand over winter to support and deliver the Winter Plan
Establishment of appropriate delivery accountability within the system and at the A&E delivery board
What we did
Attain worked across the whole economy to support delivery, this included:
- Use of robust project management methodologies to ensure appropriate rigour within the programme of work
Provided an independent ‘check and challenge’ of current programmes of work to understand deliverability
Defined the financial impact of UEC projects and created a dashboard to monitor progress of delivery and related ROI (used to inform system financial risk)
Creation of the UEC dashboard to consolidate and focus programme accountability for delivery
Detailed demand and capacity modelling for the acute providers NEL activity to allow for appropriate planning
Our impact
Our results included;
- Identification of up to £20m of financial opportunity for efficiencies within the Urgent and Emergency Care System
Clear identification of a true bed position for winter allowing for appropriate planning and resilience and a clear requirement of funding to support the required interventions to reduce acute bed requirement
Identification of £6.3m of immediate savings across a common currency within the system and
Implementation of a dashboard developed for the A&E delivery board to monitor progress
Supported an initial system wide recovery plan
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