Services

Recent projects

• Nationwide experience of commissioning – through the ChilversMcCrea practices business we were engaged with and part of many commissioning groups throughout the country. In addition to this we have had leadership roles and in particular looking at some of the specialist commissioning issues on behalf of PCT’s
• Cost effectiveness of secondary care – working with a hospital to identify patients who can be discharged and looked after at home, ie ward rounds to improve cost effectiveness when hospitals are struggling with lack of capacity
• Long term conditions management – we successfully set up and ran a home monitoring service for COPD patients who had regular stays in hospital, which kept all of the patients in the cohort out of hospital. This is but one example of a project to better manage long term conditions
• Clinical audit of admissions – by carrying out the admission audits we are able to recommend to commissioners mechanisms for controlling and managing non elective admissions via A&E
• Urgent care/admission avoidance project
• Financial controls and individual funding request projects – We worked with commissioning groups to propose the introduction of simple control processes for referral working with the referral centre, empowering them to propose alternative solutions to a hospital admission/consultation
• High cost drugs and Individual funding request projects
• Medicines reconciliation – This project involved auditing patient's take home drugs to reconcile them to their treatments in hospital and their ongoing requirements as this is often a time and area that is overlooked and leaves patients either over or under medicating and consequently their conditions are managed much more poorly