We offer a comprehensive range of service planning support including:

  • Strategic healthcare service planning
  • Development of Service Options Appraisal
  • Development of new ways of working and Operational Policies/Standard Operating Procedures
  • Development of benefits criteria, qualitative and quantative
  • Implementation and management of a change management framework to deliver service change
  • Full post project evaluation

Options Development

  • Understanding best practice
  • Analysis of current clinical and service models
  • Establishing clear objectives around efficiency, quality, capacity of service delivery
  • Establishing the level of details to gauge and evidence assumptions accordingly
  • Efficient delivery of project documentation to agreed deadlines
  • Patient pathway mapping, measuring and analysis
  • Data analysis
  • Modelling future service configuration – Physical requirements for refurbishment/new build

Business Case Development

We have extensive experience in all stages of the business case development process in both leading and facilitating case development:

  • Conceptualising and developing a full range of service change objectives
  • Experience of Acute and secondary care business cases
  • Clinical and operational departmentmental and service modelling
  • Service trend analysis
  • Estate, facilities and relocation logistics management
  • Developing options appraisals
  • Document drafting; proof reading and support through approvals process
  • Project co-ordination providing focus and drive
  • Provide a project governance structure linked to Trust governance framework

Transition and implementation

We offer a range of services to help teams transition during a project from conception, through to the new operating model being established:

  • Service modelling and development plans
  • Demand, Load, Capacity and Activity mapping, measuring and modelling
  • Creating new ways of working, operational processes and improved patient pathways
  • Support in operationalising new ways of working, and new physical layouts
  • Support in relocation and provision of services
  • An overarching understanding of whole hospital systems including facilities, IT, data performance, clinical and operational processes
  • Developing cross department and diagnostic work streams
  • Ensuring local and Trust wide communication plans are in place and delivered

Benefits Realisation and Project Analysis

We offer support in evaluation projects including:

  • Development and review of Benefits Realisation Plans – Support in helping teams develop on-going monitoring and maintenance of new processes and ways of working
  • Leading post project evaluations including lessons learnt