Review of service specifications for City and Hackney CCG
City and Hackney CCG identified a need to undertake a review of their community health service specifications and key performance indicators as part of the wider implementation of their [...]
Transforming Services Together (TST) system reform in east London
The NHS in east London faces huge challenges. An extra 270,000 residents will move into the area in the next 15 years – equivalent to an additional London borough; [...]
Assuring clinical decision making for CCGs
Three London CCGs working in partnership approached us to ensure that they had a robust decision making process when identifying and recommending any cessation or restriction of prescriptions, as [...]
Improving IPC compliance in a GP surgery
Following an infection prevention and control (IPC) audit of Berwick surgery in Essex by our team, a number of areas of non-compliance were identified, including poor environmental conditions and [...]
New pathway for Individual Funding Requests saves over £2m
Individual Funding Requests (IFRs) were taking around four weeks to process in Barking and Dagenham, Havering and Redbridge (BHR). The system involved manual submission by clinicians and manual reconciliation [...]
Enhanced IVF pathway scrutiny improves efficiency of Tonbridge service
On investigating the details of block contracts, our Business Intelligence (BI) team flagged up that some IVF treatments funded by West Kent CCG were being carried out in London [...]
Optimising medicines in prisons in the South East
Our Medicines Management team were requested to support NHS England commissioners in ensuring prisoners in Kent, Surrey and Sussex (approximately 18,500 prisoners) receive the right medicines. Our first level [...]