Developing an ambulatory care framework
Commissioners across Coventry and Warwickshire wanted to commission ambulatory emergency care services to reduce admissions, improve quality of care, reduce length of hospital stays and improve patient experience across three acute hospitals. Members of the NHS Arden & GEM service redesign te...
Assurance support for local transformation plans
As part of its plan to allocate additional funds to transform mental health and eating disorder services for young people, NHS England appointed NHS Arden & GEM CSU to provide assurance support across the Midlands and East region. The CSU’s transformation team designed, planned and facilitate...
Improving maternal mental health services
As a result of the maternal mental health service transformation project, a new pathway has been put in place, recruitment to the specialist team has been completed, the new service has been officially launched and we have already received national interest in the model.
Bringing mental health patients home
We worked with Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust to improve the quality and efficiency of local mental health services. Benefiting patients, providers and commissioners, this project has delivered over £12m in cost savings while providing high quality, locally based services to pati...
Homeless Hospital Discharge Programme
Following the release of funding from the Department of Health for projects designed to tackle these concerns, NHS Arden & GEM Commissioning Support Unit worked with NHS and voluntary sector partners to design and implement a programme that would support hospitals in improving patient outcomes.
Improving Non-Emergency Patient Transport Services
Commissioners of Non-Emergency Patient Transport (NEPT) in the East Midlands were facing an increasingly complex task in procuring value for money, patient centric services.
Combining clinical and IT expertise to prevent strokes
Fewer people are suffering strokes thanks to a revolutionary IT tool which helps GPs identify and treat people at risk of stroke or TIAs
Outsourcing an outpatients pharmacy service
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust (UHCW) knew it wanted to outsource its outpatient pharmacy service but was finding it difficult to progress the project in-house.