Using procurement to your advantage
Gavin Bennett, our Associate Director of Procurement for NHS England, discusses collaboration and market engagement and its role in delivering commissioning that is patient-centred, demonstrably good and is value for money in our latest blog for NHS Voices.
What is population health management and how can it help you?
Population health is a popular phrase in the NHS, but what does it really mean and how can we, as commissioners, providers and health systems, benefit from it? Our Chief Clinical Information Officer, Dr Nick Pulman explains.
Using public procurement to improve specialised healthcare services
Neli Garbuzanova, Senior Procurement Manager at Arden & GEM, explains how early strategic use of procurement can benefit specialised commissioning in this latest article for Specialised Commissioning journal.
How do we harness the potential from population health management?
Population health management is high on the health agenda with good reason. Its potential to help inform preventative, sustainable care is huge. But how best to harness this potential and make early, tangible progress, is less obvious. Helen Seth, our director of business intelligence and provide...
How do we harness the benefits of technology in primary care?
Primary care is making positive strides when it comes to digitally-enabled healthcare. It’s exciting to hear about successful moves to implement video and online consultations, enable patients to view their records online and the growth of wearables to support self-care. But offering these at sca...
Using Business Intelligence in specialised commissioning to improve patient outcomes
With specialised commissioning growing at a rapid pace and requiring some of the most costly interventions, the reliance on advanced data analysis to understand, monitor and manage care is increasing.
PCNs: a new way of working
With the deadline by which practices must join a primary care network (PCN) just a day away. Chris Davies, our transformation partner, asks if you are ready for the changes this will bring.
Will the long term plan solve all the NHS’s problems?
The scale of transformation envisaged in the long term plan is vast and sets significant challenges for those tasked with delivery across the health system, says Wendy Lane, consultancy services director at NHS Arden & GEM.
Addressing the barriers to adopting best practice at scale
There is a great deal of willingness to share best practice across the NHS. Strangely, however, this approach hasn’t always translated into adoption at scale, despite a long history of trying a variety of methods to support learning.
Population Health Management: Taking the prevention agenda further through effective targeting
The new health secretary, Matt Hancock has not been in post long, but he is already leading in some very positive and interesting directions. Last month we saw ’The Future of Healthcare‘ released with digital solutions fundamental to delivering sustainable healthcare; while this month we had a ti...