We provide resilient, locally responsive, best practice support functions to an established customer base of over 70 NHS organisations that deliver standardised approaches and economies of scale.
Our comprehensive portfolio of products and services cover:
Procurement
Our multi award-winning procurement service completed over 200 non-clinical and 94 clinical
procurements during 2021. Our 50+ procurement specialists provide end to end services including market assessment and management, procurement, transition, collaborative contracting, category management and spend analytics.
Data and analytics
Our 300 strong team of data and analytics experts support over 40 health and care organisations to improve care planning and health outcomes for their population.
From data sourcing to bespoke application development to advanced analytics, our solutions are accessible, trusted and valued.
IT
Highly skilled IT team already support over 25,000 users. We offer comprehensive services, from infrastructure and day-to-day IT support through to digital strategy development and bespoke systems to support clinical priorities.
HR
We deliver transactional HR support that is cost effective, flexible and responsive. Our HR
Business Partners deliver strategic HR support drawing on experience and expertise spanning both the public and private sector.
IG
Accredited Information Governance and DPO services to support clients with compliance with common-law duty of confidence, information security, DSP Toolkit, Data Protection Act 2018 and Caldicott standards.
Finance
From day-to-day processing and statutory reporting to financial modelling, performance measurement and project accounting.
Provider Management
Delivering the insight required to ensure that contracts are delivered within activity plans, identify and understand variance and effectively manage opportunities and risks.
We offer three delivery models to meet your exact requirements:
- Transformational and advisory – for strategic and consultancy projects
- Business partnering – for blended matrix style working
- Transactional – for efficient day to day operations.
Our business enabling services will help you to:
- Understand where your biggest operational inefficiencies lie
- Streamline processes to maximise time spent on value adding activities and ensure cost efficiencies
- Identify where you can generate savings by doing things once or at scale
- Resource projects with the correct expertise to deliver automation, AI and bespoke digital solutions to improve productivity.
ADDITIONAL SERVICES
RELEVANT READING
Arden & GEM is already delivering business enabling services to healthcare systems. Find out more by accessing the resources below.
Readying for change: priority considerations for providers in embracing the latest digital, data and analytics demands
Helen Duckworth, our Director of Business Intelligence Transformation, considers the common challenges and key aspects providers need to consider, both individually and collectively, to prepare for digital and data opportunities in this article for National Health Executive.
Implementing a new electronic ophthalmology referral pathway
NHS Arden & GEM’s Health and Care Transformation team worked alongside colleagues from NHS Coventry and Warwickshire ICB to design and develop a new patient referral pathway for ophthalmology services.
Join our new webinar series to address NHS planning and decision-making challenges
NHS Arden & GEM is joining together with Anaplan to host a series of focused webinars designed to address the key challenges in NHS planning and decision-making.
Supporting uptake of new healthcare technologies through an engaging new website for NIHR’s HealthTech Research Centre
When NIHR’s HealthTech Research Centre in Devices, digital and robotics needed a new website to better engage and involve audiences in technology development, an expert NHS team from Arden & GEM and Midlands & Lancashire CSUs was commissioned.
Launched in September 2024, the new user-friendly website showcases research across the major areas of unmet need and delivers a comprehensive resource of information for visitors.
Finalists for the Investors in People Health and Wellbeing Award
Arden & GEM has been shortlisted in the Health and Wellbeing category at the Investors in People Awards 2024.
CPD accredited social value training now available from Arden & GEM
The CPD Standards Office has accredited the first in a series of social value e-learning modules developed by Arden & GEM.
NHS Integrating Care Conference: Hear from our Executive Director on the role of dynamic planning
Arden & GEM’s Executive Director of Strategy, Planning and Innovation, Alison Tonge, will be joining the NHS Integrating Care Conference on Wednesday 2 October 2024 to share how a dynamic connected planning approach can support our aspirations to deliver better integrated care.
Key learnings from the ‘Pioneering Sustainable Healthcare’ webinar
On 19 September 2024, colleagues from across the health and care sector came together as part of a 90 minute webinar to learn from sustainability experts and hear more about a new tool designed to assist the NHS in meeting its goal of becoming the world’s first net zero health service.
Six steps to embedding health and wellbeing to nurture your team
Katrina Darwent, Health and Wellbeing Business Partner at NHS Arden & GEM CSU, shares the six steps that we have identified to guide a strong health and wellbeing strategy in this latest blog for Healthcare Leader.
Building an inclusive culture of leadership in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland ICS
In April 2022, NHS Arden & GEM was engaged as a strategic partner to support Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland (LLR) ICS in its ambition to create a system-wide inclusive culture of leadership.
CONTACT US
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