Benefits of Membership

 

Equipping your organisation with core skills and knowledge (training courses, network events etc)

Deepening your understanding of the current healthcare challenges (specialist seminars, advice etc)

Projects tailored to your organisation’s needs

Resources to use to secure your organisation’s success

Service Improvement

Management development workshops:

• Key skills in service improvement

• Sustaining 18 weeks

• Understanding variation and SPC

• Working and managing in teams

• Understanding spread and sustainability

• Your management style and how to apply it more effectively using MBTI

• Productivity in the in-patient pathway

• Managing change

• Network-wide mentoring programme

• Maintenance of the A&E target

Local 18 week events looking at improving service delivery, sustainability, measurement and service change

Expert seminars (past topics include orthopaedics, pre-operative assessment services and 18 weeks)

Joint event with the British Association of Day Surgery

Creation of new care pathways through the facilitation of local dialogue

Review of elective care processes by an American elective care clinician and support in implementing changes recommended

Intensive support for your local organisational development programmes including defining new OD programmes to stimulate service change

Benchmarked analysis of Trust performance, including against the British Association of Day Surgery standards and 18 weeks

Links with partners in the US Orthopaedic Service

Marketing

Revitalise your patient experience strategy and implementation

Annual programme of four Chartered Institute of Marketing accredited foundation workshops covering the Code of practice for promoting NHS services

Brand development for boards and executive teams including customer facing metrics

Six master classes each year with GP Liaison and Patient Experience network meetings:

• Social marketing for providers and commissioners

• GP as customer, competitor and collaborator

• Customer Insights & using Mystery patients

• Franchise branding

Development of local marketing plans by a chartered marketer

Training to use the market analysis software such as Dr Foster Hospital Marketing Manager as a marketing tool

Website design and delivery including GP micro sites

Patient and organisational marketing promotional materials

Art-directed photo library for internal communication and press use

Moving media for introducing your new facility/patient pathway

Business & Commercial Skills Safeguarding the future of your organisation through emerging models of healthcare

Developing commercial skills workshops:

• strategies for competition and partnership

• legal, policy and commercial issues around partnership and vertical integration

Supporting Trusts in responses to service tenders

Supporting PCTs in developing responses to Commissioning

Emerging partnership opportunities for foundation trusts

Board-level seminar on partnering options for future role of hospital

Specialist legal seminars:

• delivering healthcare through commercial partnerships – practical and legal implementation issues

Flat-pack polyclinic

Supporting organisations to respond to tendered services: how to write & respond to bids

FT IBP development support – market assessment, service development, membership strategy and governance

Options for developing and sustaining PCT provider services

Finding the golden thread: linking PCT strategy to action

Service integration between primary & secondary care services

Policy maps for delivering healthcare through commercial partnerships – legal issues, competition and cooperation guidance, relevant acute contract clauses, Monitor obligations

Template legal contract for delivering services in collaboration with clinician LLPs

Coding guides for junior doctors

Tool to assess partnership approaches to Acute Trusts

Getting the most from service contracts

Learning and development programmes covering:

• Business Planning

• Acute Services Contract

• Business Case Development

• Commissioning

• Negotiation

• Procurement

Specialist legal seminars: procuring healthcare in the contestable market

Overview of the acute service contract: minimising risks and maximising opportunities

Understanding your contractual obligations for capacity planning and managing variation

Options for healthcare pricing and unbundling

Health economy wide assessments of capacity, demand and infrastructure

Supporting public consultation programmes for organisational change

Location planning for outreach services in partnership with Experian

Capacity and demand model developed with Birmingham Central Business Support Agency

Policy map for procuring healthcare in a contestable market which includes guidance on procurement, TUPE, pricing and consultation

Template contracts for procuring healthcare from non-NHS organisations

Financial risk management tool for interface services

 

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