NHS and Healthcare Blogs

NHS Arden & GEM and Mid and South Essex ICS share how data is being used to enhance care and drive sustainable change, as part of a stewardship approach, in this blog for Healthcare Leader.

Mui Wan, Associate Director for Finance and Performance Improvement at NHS Arden & GEM, looks at five key areas to focus on for NHS funding bids and new projects in this latest blog for Healthcare Leader

Alison Tonge, Executive Director of Strategy and Innovation at NHS Arden & GEM, considers how truly integrated planning can support systems to combine a coordinated strategic approach with integrated operational delivery in this blog for Integrated Care Journal.

Iain Stewart, Programme Director, and Ayesha Janjua, Associate Director of Leadership and OD, draw together their experience of supporting a network of 11 ICBs in the Midlands region as well as three ICBs in the North West to take on commissioning of pharmacy, optometry and dentistry services fro...

Data, when used effectively, is perhaps the most crucial tool available to help NHS organisations deliver the Triple Aim duty of improved population health, improved service quality and improved value, assert Aaron Atkinson, Helen Duckworth and Jess Hicks from NHS Arden & GEM's BI team.

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.

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.

Katie Wardle, Helen West and Dr Cristina Ramos share how collaborative working between system partners has seen the launch of a new primary care gynaecology service across Coventry and Warwickshire.

Matthew Kendrick, Senior Data Manager at Arden & GEM, reflects on the rapid development of the COVID-19 Provider Notification System and shares stakeholder feedback as the system closes in response to the NHS incident level step down.

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.