Underpinning ambition with a strong PMO The importance of having an effective Programme Management Office (PMO) has never been greater in the NHS; having a robust PMO will help ensure that plans stay focussed on achieving true outcomes and delivering the required changes and benefits Each PMO will operate depending [...]
Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC): Workforce Insights What is the national CDC Programme all about? The national Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) programme was borne from Professor Sir Mike Richards’ national review of diagnostics (2020), and highlights “the need for radical investment and reform of diagnostic services”. One key recommendation from the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
