NHS

How can hospitals embrace more environmentally sustainable business practices and reap the benefits that come with their commitment? We’ve identified four innovative practices that organisations can adopt.

Shaun Hobbs and James Glossop, healthcare experts, consider the use of a population-based approach for ICSs.

Christian Norris, Head Economist, and Louise Northrop, economics expert at PA Consulting, discuss the scale of the Health Infrastructure Plan’s economic benefit and the need for acceleration.

The PA Consulting Healthcare team worked with the NHS to create the Seacole Centre, a Covid-19 rehabilitation hospital in just 35 days.

Patient Catalyst is an AI-enabled operational decision support platform that empowers clinical staff to effectively match each patient to the next clinical activity in the pathway, delivery most effective and timely care.

Working with two leading London hospital trusts and the wider South East London system partners, we helped establish one of the first central pathology hubs in the UK. We enabled the partners to agree a 15-year contract with a new supplier for pathology services, which is expected to deliver over £100 million in cost savings over the contract term. It will also give doctors in the area access to cutting-edge diagnostic services, enabling them to deliver better, more integrated and effective healthcare.

Under pressure from shrinking budgets, aging populations and difficulty retaining talent, we helped Southampton Primary Care create a new workforce model that it could scale across all 28 practices, 2,000 staff and a service population of 280,000.

We helped Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust to carry out hundreds more operations per year with the help of an innovative new scheduling tool we’ve developed to optimise the use of operating theatre time.

We helped Black Country Pathology redesign their IT systems to make them more efficient and create a scalable platform to offer integrated services and adopt new technologies.

We worked with Frimley ICS set up a data lab to generate insights from partner organisations’ data. From proof of concept to data lab set-up in just four weeks, Frimley ICS are now ready to scale up the data lab to generate more insights.