Using a hackathon to tackle complex NHS challenges in a day
In this latest blog for Healthcare Leader, Alison Tonge, Executive Director of Strategy and Innovation at NHS Arden & GEM, shares how a recent ‘innovation hackathon’ event brought together expert speakers, staff and customers, in facilitated multidisciplinary working groups to find and develo...
Strengthening operational resilience as we head into winter
Rose Taylor, Executive Director of Health and Care Transformation at Arden & GEM, considers what makes this winter different, and what can we do about it, in our latest blog for Healthcare Leader.
What is stewardship and why does it matter to ICBs?
Dr Tim Wilson and Ayesha Janjua, from Arden & GEM’s Health and Care Transformation team, discuss how health systems can become responsible stewards of common resources, recognising and incorporating the collaborative working skills needed for success.
Using stewardship to make value-based improvements to care pathways
As we head towards the first year anniversary of the formal set up of ICBs, we look at a series of examples where stewardship is enabling ICSs to make well-informed, system-wide changes across clinical pathways.
Delivering a strategic data and analytics platform to enable system-wide population health management
Mid and South Essex ICS and Arden & GEM describe how they have taken a multidisciplinary team approach to co-design a strategic data and analytics platform which provides staff across the ICS with the intelligence needed to plan and deliver priorities, using population data to enable more inf...
Successful integrated planning must combine strategic vision with operational reality
As ICBs look to embark on more ambitious integrated plans, those of us working across regions should also step up to accelerate that learning, how to share assumptions, and capture evidence, decisions and impact, says Alison Tonge, Director of Integrated Services Development at Arden & GEM.
System-wide workforce planning sets the foundations for sustainable healthcare
ICBs have access to a large, talented workforce which can unlock opportunities to improve health and social care explains Head of Service for Workforce Planning and Consultancy, Fiona Grove, in our latest blog for Healthcare Leader.
Social value – lofty ambition or lifeline for healthcare?
With net zero targets, green plans, carbon reduction plans and procurement legislation, social value in the NHS is not optional. Our Social Value Lead, Becky Jones, looks at how progress can be made by ICBs in this latest blog for Healthcare Leader.
Leadership and culture will determine early success for ICBs
Arden & GEM's Head of OD Consultancy, Davo Ruthven-Stuart, considers how ICB leaders can find the space, support and skills needed to drive what could be a transformative agenda for the NHS in this latest blog for Healthcare Leader.
Culture change needed for population health management to flourish
In this latest blog for Healthcare Leader, Associate Director of Leadership and OD, Ayesha Janjua considers the organisational, leadership and governance changes needed to truly benefit from the insights PHM offers.