What is stewardship and why does it matter to ICBs?
Dr Tim Wilson and Ayesha Janjua, from Arden & GEM’s Health and Care Transformation team, discuss how health systems can become responsible stewards of common resources, recognising and incorporating the collaborative working skills needed for success.
Supporting jobseekers into the NHS
Carla Smith, Apprenticeship and Career Development Manager at Arden & GEM, explains how the sector-based work academy programme and apprenticeships are helping jobseekers into careers with the NHS.
Developing a primary care gynaecology service to improve system outcomes
Katie Wardle, Helen West and Dr Cristina Ramos share how collaborative working between system partners has seen the launch of a new primary care gynaecology service across Coventry and Warwickshire.
Building on the legacy of the COVID-19 Provider Patient Notification System
Matthew Kendrick, Senior Data Manager at Arden & GEM, reflects on the rapid development of the COVID-19 Provider Notification System and shares stakeholder feedback as the system closes in response to the NHS incident level step down.
Robotic process automation delivers more than simply efficiencies
Craig Kilgour (Robotic Automation Lead) and Sarah Thompson (Business Analyst) from NHS Arden & GEM CSU explain how robotic process automation (RPA) is helping to strengthen cyber security, improve accuracy and pave the way for more flexible working in the latest issue of National Health Execu...
Working in the Advanced Analytics Unit - The best part of my job
“The best part of my job” by Farah Adam, Data Scientist
Using stewardship to make value-based improvements to care pathways
As we head towards the first year anniversary of the formal set up of ICBs, we look at a series of examples where stewardship is enabling ICSs to make well-informed, system-wide changes across clinical pathways.
Delivering a strategic data and analytics platform to enable system-wide population health management
Mid and South Essex ICS and Arden & GEM describe how they have taken a multidisciplinary team approach to co-design a strategic data and analytics platform which provides staff across the ICS with the intelligence needed to plan and deliver priorities, using population data to enable more inf...
What role can finance and procurement teams play in helping ICBs improve patient outcomes?
By bringing finance and procurement expertise into the planning process at an earlier stage, systems will be better placed to achieve the clinical priorities and desired outputs of the Triple Aim, says Gavin Bennett (Procurement Director at Arden & GEM) in this feature for Public Finance.
Successful integrated planning must combine strategic vision with operational reality
As ICBs look to embark on more ambitious integrated plans, those of us working across regions should also step up to accelerate that learning, how to share assumptions, and capture evidence, decisions and impact, says Alison Tonge, Director of Integrated Services Development at Arden & GEM.