Business & Commercial Skills – Case Studies
Case Study: Integrated Services Development
Across the NHS Elect network we are working with our members on all of the elements required to deliver innovative community based services. These projects operate under a number of headings; polyclinic, integrated care organisation and vertical integration are common titles but the work which underpins them shares many elements. The business and commercial skills team has pulled this work together into a set of services which recognises the need to work from local priorities and infrastructure while using common approaches where that offers value for money or a sense that something demonstrably works. These services include:
- Developing integrated pathways between primary and secondary care
- Creating business cases to model and promote the benefits
- Risk management tools to highlight and mitigate the operational and financial issues when services are moved between providers
- Legal and governance advice to understand corporate forms, procurement issues and implications of TUPE and Consultation Law
- Engagement with service users and clinicians to engender support for new service models
- Contracting strategies to open up the full scope for rewarding success and managing risk
- Facilitating the development of Memoranda of Agreement between partners
- Market testing to clarify the risks and opportunities of the local approach
Our aim is to provide a local solution to issues in this area, whilst bringing our experience from elsewhere in the country to save time and effort in recreating solutions that have been road-tested elsewhere. We link the strategic development of services to the practical steps towards implementation of new services.
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