Five tips for building a better business case for new projects
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
Developing Joint Forward Plans: how ICBs can strengthen integrated planning
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.
IT at scale - turning opportunity into reality
Arden & GEM's IT and productivity leaders discuss the opportunities for ICBs and individual providers to improve operational efficiency and reduce costs by commissioning and delivering IT services and equipment at scale.
The role of finance in driving down NHS carbon emissions
Our Social Value Lead, Becky Jones, and Director at the Carbon Neutral Group, George Curtis, discuss the important role that finance and procurement teams have to play in making a meaningful dent in the NHS’s carbon footprint in this article for Public Finance.
What does success look like for provider collaboratives?
NHS Arden and GEM recently hosted executive leaders from provider collaboratives, NHS regions and NHS England at our headquarters in St Johns House, Leicester.
Delegating specialised commissioning: what ICBs should consider ahead of April 2024
Ayesha Janjua and Iain Stewart look at the key tasks facing ICBs as they take on responsibility for commissioning many specialised services in April 2024, in this latest blog for Healthcare Leader.
Implementing delegated commissioning of Pharmacy, Optometry and Dentistry services in the North West and Midlands
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...
How is system-wide data sharing enhancing patient care?
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.
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...
Three ingredients that will help make Green Plans work in practice
Justine Harding, our Estates and Facilities Manager, and Becky Jones, our Social Value Specialist discuss the three ingredients that should be embedded to support successful delivery of Green Plans in this latest blog for Healthcare Leader.