The NHS faces unprecedented pressures as it recovers from the pandemic.

There are steps you can take now to recover, transform and innovate to create a sustainable, quality-driven NHS for the future.

Financial assurance and analysis

Understanding the financial position, identifying risks and improvement opportunities are critical to delivering efficient and effective NHS care. Having experienced support that understand the nuances of NHS finance provides insight and confidence on financial management and reporting.

With daily operational challenges, growing patient waiting lists and workforce issues you need to understand their impact on your finances, the key cost drivers and how your project, service, hospital and healthcare systems can manage them effectively. We help by providing our knowledge and insight to present clearly the position, dissect and triangulate issues and offer credible solutions to improve your financial management and support long-term financial sustainability.

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How can the NHS improve operational and financial sustainability?

Joint forward plans are crucial for the NHS's capacity for long-term healthcare delivery and financial stability.

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NHS finances: a crisis we're not talking about?

Within discussions of NHS crises, the financial position is not being fully considered. We explore why and what to do.

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ICS: shaping the governance of integrated care systems

The NHS has proven it can change quickly, but introducing integrated care systems requires real strategic thinking.

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H2-O: when will the NHS funding tap get turned off?

NHS funding has increased during COVID-19, but that can't last forever. When will emergency funding dry up?

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NHS contracting: five tips to support integration

NHS contacting is changing as integration comes into use. We lay out the steps to take to adapt to the new world.

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    Consulting

    The NHS is at a pivotal point in its history with huge challenges to driving significant improvement in population outcomes. Challenges include reducing waiting lists and times for treatment, improving urgent and emergency care provision, developing a sustainable workforce model and the acceleration of digital and technological advances. All of this must be achieved within a tight financial budget with significant efficiency requirements and in immature NHS structures. 

    Our healthcare consulting team has a wealth of experience helping the NHS solve tough problems. We are working nationally, regionally and locally with clients to support recovery from the pandemic and to develop and deliver strategy, transformation and integration programmes that improve patient outcomes and reduce health inequalities.

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    The future workforce – bringing the vision and present together

    We look at how Health Education England is developing the NHS and social care workforce.

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    ICS transformation must be about more than improvement

    ICS already had a lot of work ahead before COVID-19. As we move forward, healthcare transformation must widen its scope.

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    HFMA report: integrated care systems on right track

    We joined the HFMA to discuss the role of integrated care systems in accelerating the transformation of health services.

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    Integrated Care Systems: the right time for change

    The NHS has proven it can change quickly, but introducing integrated care systems requires real strategic thinking.

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    ICS: seizing the opportunities in place

    An opportunity to take advantage of place data to drive lasting change.

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      Information improvement and analytics

      Meaningful analysis, underpinned by good-quality data, is fundamental to providing the right care to the right patient at the right time and place, enabling people to live happier, healthier lives.

      The NHS has the richest and most comprehensive data in public services. Local and national healthcare organisations are constantly striving for the best way to turn this data into insights that can help improve care and lead to the right strategic decisions. The health service is moving to a more collaborative, integrated approach to designing and delivering care, which means the data that comes from different types of care organisations needs to be reliable and analysed in a consistent and informed manner.

      Our healthcare information improvement and analysis team has a long track record of supporting healthcare organisations to get the best out of their data. All members of the team have direct NHS experience working at the regional and national level. We make sure clinical data accurately reflects the care delivered; we organise data to deliver real insight; we tell complex analytical stories in simple and easy-to-understand terms; and we manage large amounts of data across multiple organisations and different sectors to support planning, risk stratification and care delivery.

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      Improving patient care by enhancing NHS data quality

      Howard Davis looks at how enhancing clinical data quality can support better decision making and care delivery.

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      Improving NHS data quality and costing information

      Howard Davis summarises how we've been supporting the health service in serving its patients by making informed decisions.

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      The implications of poor data recording in hospitals

      Poor data recording is a fundamental flaw in our NHS hospital system and causes financial strain.

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        Projects advisory

        Capital is always in short supply when it comes to social infrastructure and the NHS is all too familiar with the challenges of insufficient capital allocations, even though it is recognised that capital investment will make the NHS more efficient. This efficiency can happen through community diagnostics centres and elective recovery hubs, investment in new equipment or improving IT and digital capability so it is comparable to other sectors and other health systems. Health and care need more capital to build better, more efficient and more effective infrastructure. Better infrastructure delivers quality services people deserve and helps the UK compete for global talent and opportunities.

        We work with NHS organisations on solutions to their capital issues, finding different funding structures to facilitate the capital journey and developing HM Treasury business cases for new hospitals and digital solutions to PFI terminations. Our team has extensive experience in major projects from the early days of PFI through to the most recent community diagnostic schemes.

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        Agonising about investment is holding back the NHS

        A world-class service depends on valuing solving problems and simplifying processes before saving money.

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        Why is NHS infrastructure vital to economic recovery?

        NHS infrastructure is being held back by the PDC charge. Is this harming government attempts to "build back better"?

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        How venomous spiders could change health infrastructure

        Could health infrastructure be upset by the venom of a spider's bite? And could that be a good thing?

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        The NHS needs more capital, not magic unicorns

        Matt Custance assesses the options available to the NHS for funding new capital investment without using the capital budget.

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        So you think you have a scheme? Sizing up your unicorn

        Matt Custance assesses whether there are any private funding routes available for NHS capital projects.

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