A focus on critical care during the Covid-19 pandemic significantly reduced capacity for elective routine procedures. With waiting lists for NHS care at over 7 million, NHS England launched ambitious plans for tackling elective care backlogs by 2025 across increasing capacity, prioritising treatment, transforming the provision of elective care and improving patient support.
Arden & GEM’s Elective Recovery support enables clients to both understand their current position (diagnosing challenges) and to develop and implement innovative solutions which deliver against local and national targets. By engaging with stakeholders to co-produce solutions and enabling change by activating cultural change, we can support the development and delivery of system recovery plans alongside all other aspects of service delivery, planning and assessment. We offer a full project and programme management service to facilitate the transformation required to meet your objectives. Arden & GEM is currently working with systems across England to support their individual elective care challenges and objectives.
Our Elective Recovery support applies to all four key areas outlined by the NHS England plan necessary for tackling backlog of elective care: increasing capacity, prioritising treatment, transforming the provision of elective care and improving patient support. This is delivered across four key domains:
- Diagnosing challenges: Undertaking system wide reviews of factors playing into supply and demand. Utilising data analysis and robust reporting to understand the current picture of service delivery and to inform change.
- Co-producing solutions: Facilitating workshops with clinicians to design the new future state, working with communities to ensure needs are represented, overlaying international best practice and ensuring collaboration with wider stakeholders (for example the voluntary sector and local authorities).
- Facilitating transformation: Agreeing the required changes and delivering implementation in areas including options appraisal, digital transformation, pathway redesign, workforce redesign, estate and IT, governance and compliance.
- Activating cultural change: Building a culture of change through developing leaders, engaging with staff, and building partnerships and networks. Ensuring that service user, carer and clinician voices can be heard.
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Why Arden & GEM?
We are part of the NHS family, we understand your local and national challenges, share your values and desire to enhance population health, improve services and deliver sustainable use of NHS resources.
We provide access to multidisciplinary expertise spanning project/programme management, business intelligence/analytics, digital transformation, service redesign, finance, performance improvement, public health and clinical insight.
Our Elective Recovery support can help health systems to increase capacity, tackle workforce issues, accelerate discharge from hospitals, expand services in the community, help the population access the right care first time and tackle unwarranted variation.
CASE STUDIES
Arden & GEM is already helping healthcare systems with Elective Recovery. Find out more by accessing the resources below.
Supporting patients in BLMK to better manage their diabetes through an early warning system
Arden & GEM’s Advanced Analytics Unit has created a diabetes early warning system that not only provides near real-time population-level data and benchmarking but also identifies patients with unmet needs for proactive interventions.
Establishing a gynaecology service in primary care
Arden & GEM supported system partners in Coventry, Rugby and Warwickshire to establish a system-wide primary care gynaecology service.
Developing a stewardship and value programme for Mid and South Essex Health and Care Partnership
Arden & GEM’s Healthcare Solutions team was commissioned to design and facilitate a bespoke four-month programme, in partnership with Oxford Value and Stewardship, to support Mid and South Essex Health and Care Partnership create a culture of stewardship.
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