Delegating specialised commissioning: what ICBs should consider ahead of April 2024
Ayesha Janjua and Iain Stewart look at the key tasks facing ICBs as they take on responsibility for commissioning many specialised services in April 2024, in this latest blog for Healthcare Leader.
Implementing delegated commissioning of Pharmacy, Optometry and Dentistry services in the North West and Midlands
Iain Stewart, Programme Director, and Ayesha Janjua, Associate Director of Leadership and OD, draw together their experience of supporting a network of 11 ICBs in the Midlands region as well as three ICBs in the North West to take on commissioning of pharmacy, optometry and dentistry services fro...
How is system-wide data sharing enhancing patient care?
Data, when used effectively, is perhaps the most crucial tool available to help NHS organisations deliver the Triple Aim duty of improved population health, improved service quality and improved value, assert Aaron Atkinson, Helen Duckworth and Jess Hicks from NHS Arden & GEM's BI team.
Using a hackathon to tackle complex NHS challenges in a day
In this latest blog for Healthcare Leader, Alison Tonge, Executive Director of Strategy and Innovation at NHS Arden & GEM, shares how a recent ‘innovation hackathon’ event brought together expert speakers, staff and customers, in facilitated multidisciplinary working groups to find and develo...
Three ingredients that will help make Green Plans work in practice
Justine Harding, our Estates and Facilities Manager, and Becky Jones, our Social Value Specialist discuss the three ingredients that should be embedded to support successful delivery of Green Plans in this latest blog for Healthcare Leader.
Every day is a new opportunity to learn and achieve
Rizwan Patel, Project Manager at Arden & GEM, shares how an apprenticeship offered a route into healthcare and the steps he is taking to fulfil his career ambitions.
Working in the NHS is genuinely a badge of honour
Aaron Atkinson, Associate Director of Business Intelligence at Arden & GEM, shares how he first got into analytics, the importance of putting people first and how to connect the dots in this latest Q&A in our BI Careers series.
Strengthening operational resilience as we head into winter
Rose Taylor, Executive Director of Health and Care Transformation at Arden & GEM, considers what makes this winter different, and what can we do about it, in our latest blog for Healthcare Leader.
Remote working – is the grass always greener?
It’s important that we now take this opportunity to review and reflect so that we consider the implications of the remote working era on future (and present) workers.
Embedding social value at scale across Cheshire and Merseyside
Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partnership has embedded social value at scale, building not only on the HCP members’ own responsibilities as anchor institutions, but also working proactively with local communities, businesses and suppliers to extend the reach and impact of their work.