Improving prescribing practice in primary care
When NHS South Warwickshire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) identified an 11% overspend on prescribing budget in one of their GP practices, the Arden & GEM medicines optimisation team was tasked with investigating the potential causes and producing a report for the CCG.
Decision support solution for Mid-Nottinghamshire CCGs
With challenging financial objectives facing Mansfield and Ashfield, and Newark and Sherwood Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs), the senior team needed a current analysis of cost control options and QIPP opportunities to inform robust decision making. NHS Arden & GEM Commissioning Support U...
Developing a place-based digital maturity assessment
In order to support local health and care systems develop digital strategies which deliver improved patient care and outcomes, NHS England commissioned a programme of work to develop an assessment method. Led by NHS Arden & GEM CSU, Oxfordshire AHSN, and Greater Manchester AHSN, the 12 month...
Harmonising treatment policies in Birmingham, Sandwell and Solihull
Arden & GEM managed and delivered an 18 month project, on behalf of NHS Birmingham and Solihull CCG and NHS Sandwell and West Birmingham CCG, to develop 22 harmonised policies, ready for implementation in January 2019. The new policies will ensure the best clinical outcomes are achieved for p...
Establishing the Global Digital Exemplar Learning Network
To support the GDE programme in sharing learning and experiences to accelerate digital transformation, NHS Arden & GEM CSU was commissioned to establish, lead and facilitate a GDE Learning Network.
Developing a clinical registry and outcomes system for hepatitis C
Arden & GEM’s business intelligence team developed a hepatitis C patient registry and treatment outcome system to improve the quality of data analysis to enable effective expenditure planning, inform the creation of new clinical service models and to maximise effectiveness of treatment.
Changing the behaviour of Derbyshire mums-to-be who smoke
Almost 1 in 5 mums-to-be in Derbyshire smoke through pregnancy with considerable health risks for both mother and baby. Erewash Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) recruited NHS Arden & GEM CSU to deliver a social marketing campaign to bring about behaviour change which would feed into a long...
Providing a care home medication review service in Norwich
In order to ensure that care home residents throughout Norwich were receiving annual multidisciplinary medication reviews, Norwich CCG approached Arden & GEM’s medicines optimisation team to support their locally commissioned service for care homes. The team designed a care home medication re...
Using system modelling to support pathway redesign
Arden & GEM’s business intelligence and service transformation teams have been working in partnership with Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH), to model the impact that potential service changes can have on meeting cancer performance targets.
Transformation support for Wolverhampton Discharge to Assess
Arden & GEM provided transformational programme management support to help the local health system agree a Discharge to Assess model, develop the capabilities required and deliver the programme objectives. A solution, comprising three pathways, was scoped, developed, tested and implemented wi...