PA Consulting Group has extensive experience in supporting the development and implementation of health policy. This gives our consultants an unusual capacity to blend pragmatism with strategic thinking – helping to ensure that policies developed are both feasible and implementable. We work in partnership with our clients, combining their expertise in policy and politics with our expertise in strategic planning and change management.
PA has a strong track record of helping our clients to develop workable policy and plan for its effective delivery. We have provided practical support to healthcare organisations in developing and improving health services locally and nationally – often contributing to policy thinking from the beginning. We are also expert in managing multi-disciplinary client projects that harness several of our skill areas simultaneously, such as:
- developing workable policy
- managing delivery of change
- supporting organisational development
- modelling and analysing data to provide management information.
Development of workable policy
We have extensive experience in supporting the development and implementation of health policy. This gives our consultants an unusual capacity to blend pragmatism with strategic thinking – helping to ensure that policies developed are both feasible and implementable. Our style is to work in partnership with our clients, combining their expertise in policy and politics with our expertise in strategic planning and change management.
Managing delivery of change
PA has an excellent track record in helping organisations to manage complex government programmes of change. We believe that our success comes from combining a deep understanding of the content and context for change with tried-and-tested programme management methodology. This enables our clients to:
- understand the rationale for the programme and the benefits it is designed to deliver
- be confident that all the work necessary to achieve those benefits has been identified and planned comprehensively
- assess whether the programme is resourced and governed appropriately
- measure the success of the programme and the benefits projected as it progresses, giving vital early warning of failure.
Supporting organisational development
PA helps organisations through the following key steps:
- setting the organisational challenge: articulating what the organisation wants to achieve, what it needs, and the guiding principles that will direct the new operating model
- defining the operating model: building a picture of how it needs to operate to deliver the strategic vision successfully, eg organisation performance measures, revenue and money flows
- creating the detailed design and kick-starting the transition: creating a blueprint for the new organisation at the same time as building momentum for change.
Modelling and analysing data to provide management information
PA is a recognised world leader in applying modelling and analysis techniques to help optimise core health processes, including sophisticated systems dynamics and simulation modelling. The UK's National Health Service (NHS) is a very complex system and it is often difficult to understand the potential impact of proposed changes and to identify the real drivers of performance. It is a business that suffers from being rich in data, but weak in information. PA has a strong track record in harnessing our modelling and analysis techniques to turn the mass of data available into usable information, providing clarity of consequences and identifying performance drivers.
Further information
For further information please e-mail: healthcare@paconsulting.com
