Creating more effective Estates and Facilities strategies through the Integrated Care Systems model
Estates and facilities (E&F) management plays a critical role in the delivery of all healthcare services. Every department or location depends on E&F services, with each facing unique challenges. These challenges have been significantly exacerbated by recent events such as the COVID-19 pandemic and Brexit, which have placed even greater pressures on supply chains and staff. That is why overcoming…
Overcoming the barriers to developing future-ready community diagnostic services
Even before the pandemic began, demand for diagnostic services of all types were rising and, in some cases, outstripping capacity. Covid-19 has exacerbated this problem, deepening the diagnostic backlog with knock-on effects for cancer and elective care. However, it has also demonstrated what is possible. Seemingly complex changes were implemented at a pace not seen before, transforming services within a…
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Preparing for the challenges of tomorrow with robust continuity planning
Risk management processes play a key role in building the resilience a business needs to operate smoothly during disruption. This is particularly the case in pharmaceutical and MedTech businesses, in which supply chains are often complex and services are multi-layered. Disruption can come in many forms, including challenges caused by the rapid growth to regulatory changes and rare but destabilising…
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Reshaping long neglected sterilisation services to meet the increased demands of a post-Covid world
As recent headlines have highlighted, the NHS backlog in routine operations and procedures has reached worrying heights during the pandemic. Data from NHS England shows that currently more than 5 million people in England are waiting for hospital treatment, with 3.63 million fewer elective surgeries carried out between April 2020 and May 2021. Meeting this backlog of care is going…
Akeso & Co’s view on the Department of Health & Social Care’s draft data policy
What is being proposed? In light of rapid digital advances triggered by the pandemic, the Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC) is developing a more sustainable and long-term data strategy. This strategy is designed to support the digital transformation needed to improve patient care across the health and care sectors. The new strategy has several aims, including: Bringing people…
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Contracting Managed Equipment Services – A unique legal and procurement perspective
Managed Equipment Services (MES) can support in meeting a number of objectives for NHS providers -reducing capital spend, managing risk and improving service delivery, but scoping them and contracting for them can be challenging. During this webinar, Beth Loudon and Chris Robson from Akeso & Company were joined by Jonathan Hayden and Rachel Whitaker from the leading law firm, Browne…
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Adapting your supply chain to life outside the European Union
The UK may have left the European Union (EU) with a trade deal, but for those involved in Healthcare supply chains that does not mean it is back to business as usual. Although the worst-case scenario of a no deal has been avoided, there are still challenges for those tasked with maintaining the continuous supply of products and consumables for…
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Making the most of managed equipment services
At a time of constrained NHS budgets and competing financial demands, it’s no surprise NHS managers are turning to managed equipment services (MES). But implementing them isn’t easy. In this article, we dig deeper into some of the challenges you might face when implementing an MES and how you can overcome them. An innovative commercial model Managed services are already…
Building a resilient supply chain – lessons from the pandemic
The Coronavirus pandemic has tested supply chains to their limits over the past few months. And with annual winter pressures and a second wave speeding through the country, we need to make sure we’ve learned everything we can from 2020, in order to avoid patients carrying the consequences of a broken supply chain. The disruption caused by Covid-19 has highlighted…
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The UK Private Healthcare Market: What does the future hold?
An omnipresent COVID virus and an impending recession could have significant repercussions on the UK’s private health care sector. A prolonged recovery is likely to impact both providers and insurers. Where are we now? In March, access to independent providers of healthcare in the UK was effectively suspended as capacity was re-purposed to support the NHS’ response to COVID-19. Almost overnight an ‘at cost’ reimbursement model replaced almost all health insurance and…
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Value-Based Healthcare
Michael Porter’s original vision was an ambitious one; ‘a strategy that will fix healthcare’. In his book which introduced the concept of ‘Value-Based Healthcare’ (VBH), entitled ‘Redefining Health Care’, Porter laid out what he believed would be a new way of thinking. In doing so, he made the case for delivering the best patient outcomes for the lowest cost by…
Revealing the Real Benefits and Lessons Learned from Inventory Management Solutions in NHS Hospitals
When it comes to innovation in healthcare, it is all too easy to lose sight of the progress made and where we have come from. Back in 2014, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) mandated that all NHS trusts in England must adopt GS1. This led to Scan4Safety and, subsequently, the launch of six demonstrator sites to prove…