National priorities and objectives for the NHS continue to focus on recovering core service delivery and maximising productivity. Planning guidance has set key requirements including maintaining an increase in urgent and emergency care capacity, increasing diagnostic and elective activity, and improving primary care access for patients. Ensuring alignment across these areas, to meet performance expectations, needs an integrated approach to planning that brings together strategic vision with operational reality.
Arden & GEM’s Connected Resource Planning service is designed to maximise the return on investment from resource management by delivering accountability, transparency and informed decision making. We work in partnership with ICSs to deliver genuinely integrated planning for populations and pathways to the operational workforce and capacity level. This includes bringing together the ‘top down’ vision and priorities of the Integrated Care Strategy – informed by government mandate – with ‘bottom up’ operational business plans.
From completing initial planning returns to delivering on Joint Forward Plan objectives, our planning, intelligence, performance and productivity specialists will support you to manage and track the operational impact of executing your plans.
Our Connected Resource Planning support empowers health systems to provide the right people with the tools and information required to make the best decisions - any time and every time. It provides:
- Access to a single, central planning platform with the benefits of aligned planning processes, standard data model, rich dashboards, models and KPIs.
- Robust contract management solutions that hold providers and suppliers to account.
- The use of communities of practice to agree on the connected planning modules roadmap.
- An established process for pilots to harvest lessons learnt, new module development and roll-out of connected planning solution to benefit organisations.
- Solutions spanning the entire remit of connected resource planning:
Why Arden & GEM?
Our Connected Resource Planning support provides real time visibility of a decision-driven, connected, optimised, executable single version of the truth that can drive intelligent forecasts. Our approach enables agile collaboration with positive, purpose-built performance orchestration.
We combine cutting edge planning software with NHS experience and expertise to deliver resource planning support that can drive performance and efficiency. Our support enables leaders to align their strategic objectives and resources, make bolder decisions and drive faster results.
CASE STUDIES
Arden & GEM is already helping healthcare systems with Connected Resource Planning. Find out more by accessing the resources below.
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.
CONTACT US
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