ICS are now in place and according to the Kings Fund have four key aims:
- Improving outcomes in population health and health care.
- Tackling inequalities in outcomes, experience and access.
- Enhancing productivity and value for money.
- Helping the NHS to support broader social and economic development.
And they highlight that this will involve collaboration across providers in order to improve outcomes and deliver population based health.
Delivering on these big aims will require courage, innovation, and collaboration.
Naturally organisations look at problems in silos, why? Because it’s safe, because it’s much easier, because that’s not what we are measured on, because it’s not within our scope and our assumptions about what enters our realm are unchallenged and the implications of what leaves, well that’s not our problem.
What if we did things differently, looked at this in a different way, changed the way we collaborate with other organisations?
What if we could collect and visualise, every single patient journey – across care providers, including clinic appointments, procedures, hospital stays and diagnostics? A system wide digital twin? With patients at its heart, focused on pathways for diagnosis and procedures, without boundaries – without limits…
Then we could:
- See trends, and crucially variations within and without boundaries.
- Bring ideas to life, collaborate, and share across providers.
- See how actions in one organisation affect another.
- Test ideas safely, quickly, without risk.
- Bring healthcare to life with dynamic data stories – healthcare trends told by the journeys of real people.
- Have a joined up conversation with patients about their care – across organisations.
Benefits:
- Better patient care through pathway optimisation – evidence based best practice.
- Reduce cost by system wide optimisation – not just “best for us”.
- Reduced risk – fully test ideas before implementing.
- Demand management through identifying waste and unnecessary interactions.
- Faster implementation – a focused options modeller will identify specific changes required – with evidence based / transparent outputs.
Our unique proposition combines pace, energy and skills in change management, process improvement alongside a deep expertise in data modelling:
- At Libera Partners we have strategic expertise across healthcare having worked with practices, PCNs and integrated systems. We understand primary care and the importance of People, Process and technology to improve the patient flow through the health system.
- At Neon Health Solutions we have significant expertise developing complex capacity and operational modelling tools within the acute health sector. We specialise in developing digital twins of each trust which form the foundation of our solutions. We embed data security in everything we do ensuring full compliance at every step.
We can’t produce more GPs and nurses in the very short term but perhaps if we work better together across the organisational boundaries and do things differently, we will be able to improve the patient journey, improve working relationships across providers, increase our productivity and efficiency and deliver against the ICS objectives – a win win.
If you want to push boundaries and do something different, give us a call.
Miriam.lemar@liberapartners.co.uk
