Thought Leadership

We are committed to leveraging our service and clinical expertise to help our clients deliver the highest possible standards of healthcare to their patients. Below are a range of articles and case studies that show our thinking on a range of topics and which, we hope, will help our clients to see how we can help in providing innovative healthcare solutions.

Improving Efficiency through Partnership

In today's challenging times, with health services needing to provide more for significantly less, NHS commissioners and senior managers have been asked to improve spending efficiencies and achieve cost reductions on an unprecedented scale. These are situations where partnerships with independent providers can help alleviate some of the financial pressures...

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Benchmarking

*This article was also published in The Times.

The NHS brand is used as assurance of quality and value for money but often with no supporting evidence offered . On the one hand there is no problem with that, it's a reputation the NHS has built up over the long haul. But should we be in a situation where we don't always know how good services are?

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HSJ Benchmarking

I recently attended a meeting of GPs and Commissioners to present data on diagnostics services across London. As an independent provider we are - quite rightly - obliged to publish the results of InHealth's work, use of the service, patient feedback, and patient outcomes...

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Health Management

Bringing more healthcare "closer to home" will be an essential element in making the NHS more cost-effective for the long-term. Large volumes of minor checks and treatments, such as hearing tests and ear de-waxing, continue to be managed through hospital appointments, as well as routine monitoring of long-term illnesses...

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