Personal Health Budgets (PHBs) are a key deliverable in the NHS Long Term Plan, requiring a major expansion in the offer and delivery of PHBs where the evidence indicates people would benefit.
The Long Term Plan aims to accelerate the roll out of PHBs, with up to 200,000 people benefiting from a PHB by 2023/24 - including the provision of bespoke wheelchairs and domiciliary care.
We deliver a flexible PHB service designed to meet your exact requirements, from full end-to-end support to modular provision which dovetails with your existing in-house resource, importantly we have the experience, processes and capacity to enable the effective delivery of PHBs for your local population.
We bring:
PHB Consultancy Services
Our consultancy service provides expert guidance and practical assistance that ensures your PHB service meets national requirements, is responsive to the individual and the population; and is cost effective.
- We will support your QIPP programme ensuring maximum benefit to your patients whilst providing value for money.
- Our four stage model spans strategy, operational delivery, facilitation and implementation.
- Our experienced team will conduct a full review of your current PHB systems and processes against national requirements.
- Working in partnership with Imosphere we deliver a personalised care pathway and patient centred approach to PHBs, combining a market leading cloud-based solution with our suite of ratified toolkits and templates.
- Our approach enables clients to track individual and population outcomes and measure performance and improvement.
Additional Services
We also provide bespoke packages of support and services for all your individual needs.
- Digital PHBs, Analytics and Reporting
- We provide a digital solution for the delivery of PHB’s by providing pre-set assessment tools for data extraction and historical and predictive analysis to make informed decisions around funding and resource allocation.
- We provide a digital solution for the delivery of PHB’s by providing pre-set assessment tools for data extraction and historical and predictive analysis to make informed decisions around funding and resource allocation.
- PHB Diagnostics
- Our diagnostics service provides a full operational review of your systems and processes against national requirements and your service objectives.
- Our diagnostics service provides a full operational review of your systems and processes against national requirements and your service objectives.
- Specialist PHB training
- We provide market leading training that delivers both insight and knowledge transfer. Our experts provide training in three areas:
- Planning for PHBs
- Philosophy of PHBs
- Bespoke training.
- We provide market leading training that delivers both insight and knowledge transfer. Our experts provide training in three areas:
- Financial Monitoring
- We will provide an accurate and efficient financial service to manage direct and third party payment budgets. We will provide proportionate and transparent monitoring to ensure that CCG money is being used appropriately to meet the person’s health and wellbeing needs and manage financial risk associated with PHB, in a way that is flexible to the needs of the person and the ICB.
- We will provide an accurate and efficient financial service to manage direct and third party payment budgets. We will provide proportionate and transparent monitoring to ensure that CCG money is being used appropriately to meet the person’s health and wellbeing needs and manage financial risk associated with PHB, in a way that is flexible to the needs of the person and the ICB.
- PHB service delivery
- We can host your entire end-to-end PHB service with local variations that meet your exact needs, to deliver a high quality, effective PHB service for your population.
- We can host your entire end-to-end PHB service with local variations that meet your exact needs, to deliver a high quality, effective PHB service for your population.
Benefits:
We have extensive experience and the practical knowledge to deliver effective PHB solutions which offer greater patient choice, improved care and better value for money.
We help you to develop flexible and responsive services designed around individual needs, transforming the patient experience with the potential to significantly improve individual health and wellbeing outcomes.
RELEVANT READING
Find out more about our personal health budget services by accessing the resources below.
Improving reporting process efficiencies for the NHS England Midlands Region specialised commissioning pharmacy team
The NHS England Midlands Region specialised commissioning pharmacy team agreed a package of support with Arden & GEM that would see the CSU’s medicines optimisation team provide additional capacity and capability in invoice validation, drugs challenges, contract meetings and commissioning query response.
Accessing post-registration training: a regional survey
The findings from our pilot study, commissioned by Health Education England, to explore potential inconsistencies in training across different pharmacy sectors in the Midlands and East of England have been published in the Pharmaceutical Journal.
Understanding the complexity and acuity of a female acute mental health ward
When Lincolnshire Partnership Foundation NHS Trust wanted to better understand the complexity and acuity of its female acute mental health ward, Arden & GEM’s Clinical Support team was tasked with undertaking a ‘discovery’ project.
Providing pharmacy expertise and capacity to Primary Care Networks and GP practices
When Clarendon Lodge Medical Centre and Dene and Stour Valleys PCN needed a period of fixed term pharmacy support, Arden & GEM’s medicines optimisation service was able to provide experienced professionals to deliver tailored support.
Integrating community pharmacy to deliver better patient care across the East of England
Working in partnership with NHS England’s East of England regional team, system partners, community pharmacies and Local Pharmaceutical Committees, Arden & GEM developed a community pharmacy strategy for the region.
Providing medicines optimisation expertise to regional Specialised Commissioning teams
When three NHS England regional specialised commissioning teams needed additional capacity and capability to support them with their medicines optimisation responsibilities, dedicated resource from Arden & GEM’s clinical support service was provided.
Supporting Black Country ICB to harmonise and develop clinical treatment policies
Arden & GEM assigned a team to support Black Country ICB ensure there were harmonised clinical treatment policies in place across its new geographic footprint to ensure fair access to treatments and interventions.
Supporting dispensing practices to deliver approved clinical audits in the East of England
Arden & GEM’s medicines optimisation team was engaged by NHS England East of England regional community pharmacy contracting team to review over 200 Dispensary Service Quality Scheme clinical audits by the end of the 2022/23 financial year.
Delivering pharmacist-led specialist clinics for secondary care inpatients and outpatients
A large trust in the Midlands commissioned Arden & GEM’s clinical support service to provide specialist pharmacist resource to deliver diabetes and hypertension clinics at one of their hospital sites to help manage complex patients.
The Discharge Medicines Service: Improving patient care through cross-sector working
Arden & GEM’s Pharmacy Lead will be joining the NHS Medicines Optimisation Conference on 30 November 2022 to share the aims of the Discharge Medicines Service and successful approaches to implementation.
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