Provider Collaboratives

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.