Challenge: Dementia prevalence is rising across the UK and improving dementia care was a key objective for our client – but it was not clear what the most pressing issues were for people living with dementia, their carers and healthcare professionals. Solution: We were asked to lead a project to identify the issues faced by this wide […]
Challenge: Support and management of the contract renewal process for a community services provider. Solution: This included: developing contracts for service transfer due to organisational change; creating new contracts for services that result from successful tenders; reviewing and revising services to and from partners in the local health economy ensuring financial viability; presenting the case for increased […]
Challenge: Our community services client required their Cost Improvement Programme (CIP) to be validated, further opportunities identified, and implementation planned. Solution: We developed a template to capture all CIP opportunities. In addition to existing ideas we focused on the opportunities to make savings across the wider health economy by reducing emergency admissions and excess bed days in […]
Challenge: A mental health foundation trust and a community services partner looking to bid jointly for an integrated community service realised that their current offering was far from integrated. Solution: Working with both trusts we designed and facilitated a series of workshops themed on key areas: dementia; end of life; long term conditions; child and family. With […]
Challenge: Our brief was to design and manage a commissioning exercise for specialist urology services to deliver an agreed recommendation to the regional reconfiguration panel. Solution: We designed a commissioning framework and evaluation strategy, processes and documentation; set up an independent review panel and technical work streams with terms of reference; facilitated meetings and project managed the […]
Challenge: We provided an interim Director of Commissioning/Network Director, to: lead and advise the management team, network groups and board; deliver a reorganisation in line with recommendations from a number of governance reviews and influences from (at the time) a newly published policy document – The Cancer Reform Strategy. This included management of a TUPE transfer […]