Improving Clinical Standards in Independent Care |
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The development of nursing
standards, assessment criteria and an assessment tool for NHS commissioners to monitor the quality of nursing care in the
independent sector. This involved research into care standards and collaboration with Care Homes in the
North East, nurse assessors and safeguarding leads. The tool was designed to support both proactive and
reactive assessment. Tool functionality included analysis of findings for an individual and/or multiple
care homes
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This project required investigative work to identify and map data flows prior to
commencement of the NHS Contract for the supply of home oxygen services for the North East. This was to
enable primary care commissioners to be assured of appropriate structures, processes and systems to manage and monitor the
new contract
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Training and Personal Development Tools for the Independent Health Care Sector |
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This project focussed
on identification of understanding and engagement methods between the independent health sector and the NHS. A training needs
assessment was carried out to determine an approach, learning style and delivery method relevant to the specific client. This
culminated in the development and delivery of training tools to support ‘navigation’ of the
NHS, learning NHS priorities and identifying relevant routes of engagement
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Strategic Planning Facilitation |
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Support and facilitation for a specialist law firm for their strategic
planning event. Preparing and structuring the event and agreeing outputs with partners
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North of England Cancer Network - Project Management Support |
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Support to a clinical significant event audit project in
primary care around service improvement in lung cancer diagnosis.This included the development of a project plan, process mapping of the current state, project support and facilitation and all reporting. The project used
Lean Methodology principles and procedures
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Development of a Range of Strategic Documents |
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The development of these documents included research, summary of key policy, stakeholder involvement, review
of current state, development of future provision, outcomes, investment and operational planning. Recent examples include:
· End of Life Strategy
· Smoking and Tobacco
Strategy
· Sexual Health Strategy
· Obesity Strategy
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Procurement of Orthodontics |
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Support and production of procurement documentation and evaluation tools. This included the development of the specification, the requirements register,
the evaluation methodology and supporting toolkit.
Support included facilitation of consultation and discussion with key local clinical stakeholders
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Transforming Community Services |
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Support for the process and production of relevant tools for the management of community contracts. This required the mapping of the current and future contract portfolio to establish the potential impact of reviews or
reforms currently undertaken or planned by the organisation. On completion of the mapping exercise ‘interactive’
tools were developed to support the contract cycle in terms of storage, analysis, modelling and presentation of information
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Working for primary care commissioners to review the provision of minor surgery and make recommendations on future provision and opportunities. This included all tiers of minor surgery and analysis and identification
of opportunities for the shift of minor surgery from a secondary to primary care environment
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Mapping 'You're Welcome' Quality Criteria in Commissioning |
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Working for the Government Office North East this project was mapping the use of young people's
You're Welcome Quality Criteria in the commissioning of health services. It involved engaging with both health service
and local government commissioners and negotiating further rollout and reporting status in contract and service level agreements across the whole of the north east
of England. Key to the success of this project was recognition and understanding of the complexities of the commissioning process across
a range of environments
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Procurement of three GP Led Health Centres and six GP Practices |
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Working for a cluster of PCTs supporting all aspects of project management for the Equitable
Access to Primary Medical Care Programme
(EAPMC). This included the development of the memorandum of information; the evaluation of pre-qualification questionnaires; the invitation to tender documentation;
the evaluation plan and evaluation models; all summary reports (including consultation reports and summaries); debriefs for
unsuccessful tenders and mobilisation (from contract signature to service commencement, including working with solicitors to finalise contracts). To support the evaluation teams a detailed evaluation tool
was developed, designed to record evaluation results and process these results across various assessment parameters
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Physiotherapy Service Review and Reform |
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A full service review of the FT’s Physiotherapy service including both the acute sector
and community provision. The review
was required to include key stakeholder perceptions, financial investment details, options for a 24/7 service provision and future scope. Following this review and
production of recommendations the project was extended to provide support for implementation of recommendations
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International Primary Care Development |
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This project was delivered over a two year period, commissioned by the European Union on behalf
of the Ministry of Public Health in Thailand. The work supported the introduction of primary care and family health medicine
across Thailand. The specifics included social marketing and advocacy as well as support in organisational development, training
and negotiation. Delivery encompassed work at ministerial level, acute hospital environments and rural community health clinics
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Marketing and Communications for Musculoskelatal Services |
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This project supported the development of a marketing and communications strategy for an independent health care company. The approach considered
specific requirements from the internal organisation and external customer base perspectives. Internally the project focussed
on strategic direction and organisation development. Externally the project helped to facilitate communication
strategies with commissioners, identification of barriers and development of opportunities
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Support for Service Tendering |
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The provision of support to assist the Foundation Trust to prepare and present a tender application
for the provision of a Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy Service in a primary care setting. This included all elements of
the tender response. The project necessitated review of current internal organisational structures to identify organisational ability to provide the level and extent
of service required. Within the project, support was provided to ensure that organisational change and development occurred to reflect tender responses
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This project included a two year clinical audit programme reviewing a physiotherapy telephone
triage system. It involved reviewing
individual clinician performance in the delivery of telephone triage, evaluation of their level of ability, determining training
and development needs and providing
support and feedback to the individuals and organisation. The audit was carried out on a three monthly basis to monitor progress
and provide feedback to commissioners
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Parry-Lothian Consultancy has provided facilitation services and workshops across a range of
environments and organisations. These
include:
· Healthy City Partnership Groups
· Kings Fund Leadership workshops
· Trust
Board development workshops
· Strategic Health Authority planning workshops
· Senior Management Team
planning workshops
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Following concerns within a nursing care home a PCT Cluster commissioned a rapid assessment
of all nursing home provision in the area. The project involved the development of rapid assessment criteria and assessment visits to sixty six individual nursing homes.
Further to development of the criteria, an evaluation tool was developed to aid recording of assessment and evaluation of
results / findings. The criteria encompassed elements of statutory regulations, clinical standards, operational policies,
service staff training and development, service provision and environmental factors. Delivery required close working with Local Authority Assessment Teams and the Care
Quality Commission (CQC)
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Analysis and Report of GP National Clinical Audit |
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Working for the North of England Cancer Network this project consisted of the collation, analysis
and presentation of clinical audit data collected by twenty two participating GP Practices. A final report was produced for
national submission. The project consisted of support to the practices regarding the collection of specific data, collation of practice data sets into a single North
of England consolidated database,
data cleansing, error correction, analysis, interpretation and presentation
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As a consequence of our experience, skill set and knowledge we have had many opportunities
to provide mentoring support to individuals within the NHS. These opportunities have mostly arisen from contact with teams
on previous contracts or ‘word of mouth’ recommendations from previous clients. Mentoring is
not a service we actively promote but is often seen by our clients as offering ‘added value’
and enhances capability to existing teams
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