Elective Recovery

Increasing the number of patients treated through workforce changes, utilising digital technology, working productively within infection, prevention and control measures and using capacity within independent sector providers (ISPs).

We can help you:

• Design and implement staff support programmes
• Build relationships with ISPs in your local area to identify and maximise use of resources across specialities
• Explore training opportunities for junior doctors within ISPs
• Develop and implement digital solutions – for example virtual wards and automation
• Monitor and compare performance against deliverables and metrics - for example outpatient productivity and follow-up reduction targets
• Identify gaps and solutions in activity data
• Recognise and share best practice across systems.

Basing clinical prioritisation on need, with targeted support to reduce the number of patients experiencing long waits. Providing timely cancer diagnosis and care with commitment to recognising and reducing impact of health inequalities.

We can help you:

• Develop digital tools to identify, monitor and prioritise disadvantaged groups
• Create and implement health inequality interventions for your communities, ensuring applicability to children and young people
• Demonstrate the impact of health inequality interventions using disaggregated elective recovery data
• Achieve pathway redesign and successful implementation – for example FIT testing, teledermatology, prostate cancer pathways
• Establish your service offer to patients of long waits.

Redesigning services and their delivery to address backlogs and meet demand for flexible, personalised and easily accessible healthcare. Separating routine from urgent and emergency care, expanding surgical hubs/community diagnostic centres and improving patient pathways.

We can help you:

• Utilise data and local intelligence to understand your challenges across specialities and pathways
• Develop new models of care that help address health inequalities
• Set up programme/project management offices to deliver, monitor and evaluate services
• Implement any required estate changes
• Embed digital infrastructure
• Roll out national improvement tools
• Reorganise and establish clinical teams within and across systems
• Model speciality pathways through community diagnostic centres.

Providing personalised and targeted support information to patients before, during and after treatment. Patients are enabled to make decisions which reduces the impact of any treatment waits and facilitates recovery.

We can help you:

• Develop techniques to measure patient experience including digital solutions
• Implement and review systems for early screening, risk assessment and health optimisation in perioperative pathways
• Explore how these systems can be applied to outpatient surgical pathways, ensuring applicability to all patient groups to reduce health inequalities
• Identify and share best practice across systems – for example digital screening and virtual assessments
• Interact with the NHS App and My Planned Care platform to provide greater transparency to patients
• Collaborate with voluntary sector.