By working together at scale, provider collaboratives have the opportunity to improve the quality, efficiency and sustainability of healthcare for their communities.
Empowering provider collaboratives
While still in the early stages of development, provider collaboratives have been positioned as central to delivering the aims of ICSs and integral to the future NHS operating model. Emerging collaboratives vary in type, maturity, sector and multiplicity, meaning there is no single solution for success and impact.
At NHS SCW, our approach is to work with you to understand your situation so that we can propose appropriate support and solutions and share learning to meet your particular challenges. Our pool of multidisciplinary experts works alongside your existing teams to provide complementary skills and additional capabilities in the following areas.
Collaborative development and system working
NHS providers are increasingly expected to look beyond their organisational priorities, focusing on system and region-wide objectives to improve outcomes and reduce inequalities for the communities they serve. Provider collaboratives need to work hand in hand with system partners to plan care for their populations, against a backdrop of significant operational and financial challenges.
We work with a range of health and care organisations, supporting the development of effective systems. We bring together and apply our skills in organisational development, engagement and strategy development to really focus on how lasting change can be delivered.
For the One Gloucestershire Health and Wellbeing Partnership, we have helped to create the conditions for system maturity which delivers impact. A co-developed integrated strategy has underpinned the Partnership’s approach.
Addressing workforce challenges through collaboration
Our multidisciplinary teams use a problem solving approach, underpinned by data and insight, to develop optimised workforce solutions which include workforce modelling, reviews, strategy development and planning.
By working across organisational boundaries, we can design workforce models that apply at a population and pathway level, delivering the following benefits:
• Effective resourcing and retention strategies
• A sustainable workforce
• Shared workforce priorities
• Increased productivity, efficiency and safety.
For Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundations Trust, our blended team of workforce optimisation experts, analysts and mental health specialists produced an evidence-based review which helped secure additional budget to meet rising service demand for children and young people.
Webinar highlights: Using Insights to Address Workforce Capacity and Capability Challenges
Increasing productivity and efficiency
Improving productivity and balancing the books is a priority for the NHS. With efficiency targets increasing, NHS providers need to develop skills and share best practice to ensure this challenge is met while still improving service quality and reducing backlogs.
We have a team of experienced professionals with a focus on productivity and efficiency challenges faced by NHS organisations in the short, medium and long term. We are able to work at a provider and system level, providing underpinning analytics, programme design and delivery capability, and operational subject matter expertise. We mobilise teams rapidly and have proven processes in place that we use in our work with provider trusts to co-produce robust and credible productivity and efficiency plans (PEPs).
For one Midlands Acute Trust, £24 million worth of efficiency savings were identified as part of the PEP developed by our team of finance consultants, analysts and operational experts.
Clinical support and patient flow
Our clinical support service offers subject matter and transformation expertise to facilitate the delivery and redesign of care pathways. This can include waiting list validation, clinical policy implementation, digital clinical safety, clinical coding and audit, and clinical quality.
With waiting lists across the NHS at an all-time high, patients are at risk of not receiving timely diagnosis and treatment, leading to poorer clinical outcomes, negatively affecting their quality of life, and increasing avoidable use of urgent and emergency care. We have worked with providers to optimise care pathways and implement person-centred approaches that safely improve patients’ experience while they wait.
Find out more about the impact of technical validation, patient validation and waiting well initiatives, and approaches to increasing clinical capacity in our presentation at the NHS Providers Annual Conference and Exhibition 2024.
Referral to Treatment capacity support for NHS Great Western Hospital
Case studies and blogs
How NHS SCW has supported Provider Collaboratives part 2
Cost improvement and productivity: the brewing storm
An elective care workforce resourcing solution to support waiting list validation
Creating the conditions for you to flourish
As collaboratives vary in nature and maturity, there is no single solution to developing an impactful provider collaborative. The key is to create the conditions for your collaborative to flourish.
We'd love to discuss how NHS SCW could help to empower your provider collaborative. Please use this form to get in touch with us.
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