Efficiency

With a cut to the NHS budget announced in April 2009, improving efficiency in the NHS has become even more urgent. Atos Healthcare is working with a number of trusts realising significant productivity improvements and financial benefits whilst maintaining the essential focus on improving patient care. We offer a number of solutions which promote efficiency including:

Capacity Planning is fundamental to the running of any hospital, from ensuring that A&E, 18 Week Wait and other key targets are met, to being able to increase contacted revenues through accurate future scenario planning. Atos Healthcare supplies a proven capacity planning solution which acts as a catalyst for change enabling trusts to engage employees in determining more effective ways of working and enabling them to see the immediate benefits within their working environment.

Our Lean Services focus on fostering an environment in which continuous improvement becomes part of the culture of an organisation as we aim to reduce waste and improve flow. Particularly relevant for the NHS is our ability to apply the principles of Lean to the patient journey, for example, to achieve improved patient outcomes and service quality or whole system transformation.

Managing patient data securely and in manner that is cost effective is an important part of improving the quality of care that increasingly patients expect to receive. Digitising Trusts in the first instance can appear to be prohibitively time consuming and expansive, however, Atos Healthcare focuses on allowing trusts to undertake this process with low start up and ongoing service costs.

For further information regarding our Efficiency solutions, please contact us.