The launch of the Darzi review has laid bare the critical condition of the NHS, and three key themes that now need to be considered as part of recovery and reform: Re-engage staff and re-empower patients; lock in the shift of care closer to home by hardwiring financial flows; simplify and innovate care delivery for a neighbourhood NHS.
To deliver these objectives, Integrated Care Boards (ICBs) are looking to make the necessary step changes in productivity and efficiency that can provide value for the populations they serve. But with such complex, multifaceted operations and an already stretched workforce, finding the capacity and expertise required to uncover opportunities can be a challenge.
Arden & GEM provides Investigation and Intervention support that empowers ICBs to make productivity and efficiency gains. We bring together multidisciplinary expertise to individually tailor our support to meet the exact needs of each client. Working collaboratively with your inhouse resources, we can scale our service from examining individual services through to investigating an entire ICB operation in order to realise savings and release benefits.
Our Investigation and Intervention team are experienced in delivering successful financial transformation programmes and will collaborate and work alongside you to help deliver your individual objectives. Our support includes:
Finance Performance Support
- Deep dive analysis into system expenditure to identify drivers of deficit
- Reviewing system demand and capacity modelling to identify areas of inefficiency
- Exploring efficiencies and the potential redesign of recently delegated services to release resources
- Working with system partners on the delivery of an aligned system wide recovery plan to enable the actualisation of cashable and non-cashable efficiency savings.
Programme Management and Support
- Establishing the overarching programme management and governance structures required to deliver new and existing programmes
- Supporting system side programme management to enable support to cross organisational CIP programmes
- Programme management support for individual workstreams - ensuring objectives, milestones and risks are reported and enabling delivery at pace by providing access to additional resource and governance where required.
Access to Subject Matter Experts
Our support also includes access to subject matter experts across a range of disciplines:
- Clinical leads
- Workforce
- Quality improvement
- Advanced analytics
- Public health
- Leadership and Organisational Development
- Service redesign
- Medicines and medical devices optimisation (including drugs and devices policy compliance)
- Contract performance and penalties.
Why Arden & GEM?
As part of the collaboration of NHS Commissioning Support Units we have access to over 6,000 skilled and experienced staff and offer nationwide coverage.
Already working across all 42 ICBs, we are ideally placed to support you on your individual programme journey and have resources available for rapid deployment.
CASE STUDIES
Arden & GEM is already helping healthcare systems with Investigation and Intervention support. Find out more by accessing the resources below.
Midlands Heart Failure Stewardship Programme
Arden & GEM’s Health and Care Transformation team designed and facilitated a workshop programme to enable two ICSs within the Midlands Cardiac Network to adopt and deliver a culture of stewardship.
Co-producing workforce solutions with health and care systems to reduce reliance on high-cost temporary staffing
Arden & GEM, in partnership with the Greater Manchester Provider Collaborative, delivered a system-wide temporary staffing review incorporating workforce planning, data analysis, systems and processes, and joint procurement and commissioning activities, with an estimated value of opportunity of £53m in agency savings.
Identifying efficiency and cost improvement opportunities for Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust engaged Arden & GEM's Finance Solutions team to investigate areas of opportunity for efficiency savings to feed into an internal cost improvement plan and contribute to reducing financial pressures within the local health economy.
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