NHS ELECT

NHS organisations of all sorts are being driven to adopt increasingly rigorous business processes. NHS Elect’s Business of Healthcare programme supports this aim through a mixture of training, organisational development and hands on project support.

Our learning and development programme focuses on three areas:

• Core commercial skills
• World class commissioning
• Procurement skills and overview

Specialist areas of interest for the year are:

• Partnerships, joint ventures, social enterprise and contract law
• Flat-pack polyclinics
• Patient satisfaction & contract performance
• Systems management & competition law

In addition to this we have delivered a number of bespoke projects on member sites. These were designed to meet specific organisational needs while supporting skills and knowledge transfer with local teams:

• Developing clinical coding guides and promotion of good coding practice
• Business case development
• SHA framework for regulating PCT development
• Business planning design
• Partnership strategy and facilitation
• Procurement process review
• Market management strategy
• Private patient review
• Development of urgent care centre and GP partnership bids
• Management strategy for PCTs
• PCT provider service separation
• Writing tender documents
• Responding to tenders
• Market assessment and procurement options decision tree

To learn more about the Business of Healthcare team go to Meet the Team

Visit our Case Studies section to see how we have helped our members.

To learn more about our programme of events, go to Events

To see the types of resources available to members, go to Resources.

If you would like more detailed information about the Business of Healthcare programme please contact Jim Timpson or Elliot Howard-Jones.