The creation of provider collaboratives presents many opportunities to improve population health, advance the quality of care and ensure the sustainable use of NHS resources through joined-up planning and delivery of health and care services.
For over a decade, NHS Arden & GEM has played an integral role in supporting the English health service at a local, regional and national level. We have a diverse service portfolio and a proven track record in bringing together health and social care organisations to improve the health and wellbeing of their populations.
This broad expertise and extensive experience means we are ideally placed to support provider collaboratives to achieve their short term and long term objectives. We have co-designed a range of five specialist support services with provider collaboratives to meet the development challenges they are facing.
Developing a common purpose
By building a common purpose, provider collaboratives can foster cohesion, improve communication and enhance efficiency.
Aligning effort towards shared goals promotes a unified approach that ultimately improves performance and benefits both patients and care providers.
Our support can enable your provider collaborative to:
- Adopt an inclusive co-design approach with key members and stakeholders, delivering a tailored leadership development programme which embodies the values, behaviours and culture of the collaborative
- Create a shared vision, purpose and aims
- Deliver a shared focus on collective rather than individual achievement of objectives aligned to wider system aims.
Overcoming barriers
Removing barriers in provider collaboratives is crucial for promoting seamless communication, effective information sharing and efficient teamwork. This enhances the opportunity to provide fully coordinated care and improve outcomes for patients.
Our support can help you eliminate barriers by delivering:
- Coaching interventions for Chairs and CEOs creating an environment of collective leadership
- Helping participants have conversations to challenge and support each other more appropriately
- The creation of psychological safe spaces and observational inquiry approaches within meetings.
Developing governance
Effective governance in provider collaboratives delivers the structures, roles and decision-making processes required to ensure accountability, transparency and alignment with your agreed common purpose and goals.
Our governance support services enable your provider collaborative to:
- Agree governance and create clear accountability
- Develop place boards and harmonised commissioning policies
- Translate your strategy into integrated plans with clear timelines and accountability
- Deliver maturity assessments and programmes focussed on the case for change/vision, priorities and capabilities gap analysis, and governance model development.
Delivering trust and engagement
Trust and engagement are vital in provider collaboratives as they create the foundations of effective communication.
Open dialogue and the exchange of critical information is crucial in fostering a collaborative environment where informed decision-making can improve healthcare services. This is a multi-organisational approach that breaks down barriers, seeking to develop shared understanding and provide the skills, knowledge and tools required to adapt to change, enhance efficiency and foster a culture of continuous improvement.
Our support improves engagement and builds trust through:
- Building collaborative relationships between partner organisations and leaders
- Harnessing and harmonising the policies and pathways that underpin key services
- Delivering programmes of harmonisation and development support
- Bringing service decision-making closer to the local level
- Coaching executives in role-modelling new ways of working
- Reinforcing independent facilitation.
Contract development
Effective contract development in provider collaboratives is crucial for establishing clear expectations, roles and responsibilities for all participating entities.
Well-crafted contractual arrangements mitigate conflicts, ensure accountability and promote a fair resource allocation to provide a structured and unambiguous framework for collaboration.
Our contracting experts deliver support including:
- Contract development
- Contract consolidation
- Managing contract mobilisation and close down
- Data gathering, contract registers and audit development
- Category management approaches and contract consolidation.
Why Arden & GEM?
As an integral part of the NHS family, we share your values and commitment to improving services for patients and improving the health of the populations we serve. Our inclusion on a number of NHS frameworks ensures straightforward and timely access to our broad portfolio of solutions.
Our support for provider collaboratives builds strong accountability and governance that can streamline ways of working that deliver efficiencies and improve services for patients. We empower provider collaborative to deliver the Triple Aim duty of better health and wellbeing, improved quality of care and sustainable use of NHS resources.
CASE STUDIES
Arden & GEM is already helping healthcare systems with Provider Collaborative services. Find out more by accessing the resources below.
Sharing CSU knowledge and experience in supporting provider collaboration
Sharing CSU knowledge and experience in supporting provider collaboration
On Wednesday 16 October 2024, the four Commissioning Support Units (CSUs) welcomed over 80 delegates at the ‘NHS Trusts and Primary Care Collaboration Knowledge Sharing’ webinar.
NHS Trusts and Primary Care Collaboration Knowledge Sharing Webinar
NHS Arden & GEM will be joint hosting a virtual seminar with NHS Midlands and Lancashire, NHS NECS and NHS South Central and West CSUs to provide insight and guidance around Provider Collaboratives
Supporting the East Midlands Acute Provider Network development journey
A collaborative team from Arden & GEM and Carnall Farrar worked closely with nominated representatives from the the East Midlands Acute Provider Network to co-design and deliver a workshop programme with clear objectives and outputs.
CONTACT US
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