Healthcare
Breaking down Barriers
f I could change one thing (politics aside) it would be to take a sledge hammer and open the whole lot up, take away the barriers, share information openly and work as a truly single organisation, only then will we be able to get to the root cause of our problems and solve them together.
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Independent healthcare agency and temporary staff
For the longest time, healthcare providers in both the public and independent sector have depended on agency staff, particularly around nursing, in order to meet their organisational objective.
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Integrated Talent Management
It would be for evolving health and care systems to have available the workforce they really require. Fundamentally, we are in a place where the services that are there to support the health and care needs of individuals, do not have the key individuals they need to do so. For several years now, it has been well-recognised that professionals in key disciplines are in desperately short supply.
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Managing at Scale
It would be with management structures. The great companies have one thing in common: a world-class management system. One that cascades from top to bottom of the organisation, allowing management of their business at all levels and a clear line of sight from board to shop floor.
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Standardisation of Funding
’d use the average income per specialty information to achieve standardisation of funding to providers across the NHS. National data exists or can be generated that would provide a basis for comparison to a peer group of similar providers at a specialty level.
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NHS ‘What If…” Report
As NHS leaders announced their long-term plans in 2019, we invited the views of a group of people seldom heard from, to see how they’d improve the NHS. […]
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Independent Healthcare and the NHS: Partnerships
At the end of 2018, Practicus coordinated a roundtable – hosted by Alliance Healthcare – that brought together leaders from independent healthcare providers and the NHS. It’s focus? To look […]
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Winning the war of attrition in independent health
by Carl Stevenson, Managing Consultant. I wrote recently that the workforce problem facing independent health due to Brexit was really an intensification of long-standing hiring and retention issues. The truth […]
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The elephant in the room isn’t Brexit
There may be six months to go before the UK leaves the European Union but the EU worker tap has already begun to run dry. From doctors and nurses to […]
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