Improving the Patient Escalation Process through collaborative working between clinicians, home oxygen providers and ICBs
Improving the Patient Escalation Process through collaborative working between clinicians, home oxygen providers and ICBs.
Procurement and contracting support for the COVID-19 vaccination campaign
Arden & GEM’s procurement team worked on behalf of NHS England to develop and execute a successful procurement strategy for vaccine-related equipment and consumables. Building on this success, the team went on to support the programme’s workforce, technology and logistics workstreams.
Establishing the Increasing Capacity Framework to support COVID-19 recovery
To provide commissioners and trusts with a quick and simple route to contract and sub-contract acute elective care services, an innovative national framework – the Increasing Capacity Framework – was developed and launched in November 2020.
Improving quality of life for adults with chronic pancreatitis
NHS England partnered with NHS Arden & GEM’s procurement team to successfully appoint four centres to deliver complex surgery for adults experiencing severe pain due to chronic pancreatitis.
Establishing urgent treatment centres in East Kent
When the four CCGs covering East Kent needed to procure urgent treatment centres to cover nine localities, Arden & GEM’s procurement team was tasked with delivering a complex and innovative procurement programme that would bring together a range of organisations in collaborative arrangements.
Transforming the lives of babies with spina bifida through pioneering prenatal surgery
When NHS England Highly Specialised Commissioning sought to establish a service to provide pioneering prenatal surgery for foetuses with open spina bifida, a collaborative procurement project with NHS Arden & GEM CSU was initiated.
Embedding social value priorities in a complex community services procurement
With the existing contract coming to an end, NHS Nottingham CCG needed to re-procure out of hospital community services for local citizens. Arden & GEM successfully led this collaborative and complex procurement which put a commitment to social value at its heart.
Improving access to pioneering brain surgery for deaf children
Arden & GEM’s award-winning procurement team was selected to work in close partnership with NHS England, clinical experts and patient representatives to award a three-year contract to establish an Auditory Brain Implantation service to enable profoundly deaf children to hear.
Finding providers for the West Midlands ‘Thrive into Work’ programme
In order to support 3,300 people, throughout the West Midlands, to find employment; health and care organisations are collaborating on a ground-breaking randomised controlled trial – the ‘Thrive into Work’ programme. Arden & GEM’s procurement team was tasked with finding providers for the pro...
Establishing a High Consequence Infectious Disease (HCID) service
Through a successful collaboration with NHS England Specialised Commissioning, Arden & GEM’s award winning procurement team developed and delivered a process which will ensure the public is protected in the event of HCIDs through a high quality, family centred and value for money service.