For clinicians, managers and investors
Step-up Step-down Care. (TIP)
Timely Interventions Programme. Especially after Covid, we have all realised how important it is to minimise the amount of time, if any, that a patient needs to spend in an acute hospital setting.
DHF is working with experts in intermediate care to make it possible for commissioners and providers, private hospitals and NHS facilities, to avoid acute admission and reduce the length of stay where that is unavoidable.
This approach reduces costs and improves the patient experience.
Clinical services re-engineering
When we work with a clinical team, while supporting them through their concerns about change, we challenge senior clinicians in a way which is effective and sustainable. We, as senior clinicians ourselves, bring an authority to this work which is credible and welcomed by the teams we work with. We combine this with opportunities for your clinicians and managers to visit other sites we have worked with, and which retain confidence in our approach. These sites are in the UK, Europe and the USA.
Perioperative Process improvement
We use clinical expertise and our own bespoke informatics package to help your team improve its performance.
Market analysis
Service and population analysis including referral patterns, demographic breakdowns and trends within markets, benchmarking against national and international norms.
Efficiency analysis
For us this is not about cuts or cost savings but about genuine improvements in the way things are done and patients are treated. Better outcomes at better cost.
Clinical governance
Providing expertise on clinical governance, improving and maintaining safe healthcare. We will help you develop and implement monitoring frameworks which use effective, real time measures. This includes
- Monthly feed back
- Weekly reports
- Daily updates
- Hand held mobile aps with critical flags
- Clinical Audit service reviews
Clinical due diligence
Due diligence of care providers using professionals with a thorough knowledge of clinical risk, credentialing requirements, service regulations and of the practical difficulties of healthcare provision.
Major reconfiguration
We have experience of service reconfigurations in Cardiac, children's services, Psychiatry, pathology, primary care, cancer, renal and neurological services across major conurbations. Working with former CEOs, and Clinical Directors from the Public and Private sector we can help you to help manage complex service change.
Pricing strategy
Working with you to develop successful price-setting, case selection and service volume management using our understanding of the market, relative costs, risks, profitability and industry-wide norms.
Mentoring and Executive Coaching
As a result of my experience in the diverse aspects of the health sector, I have become increasingly involved in mentoring CEOs and Board level Directors, often working online with clients in the USA, Romania, France and the UK.
Service development workshops
Facilitated workshops to help health care teams deal with the increasingly complex interface between
- Private and Public sectors
- Providers and commissioners
- Services and devices
NHS and private health care insurers
We have worked for the NHS and other commissioners on
- Developing tariffs for specialist services
- National, Regional and Community health care strategy
- Policy analysis and business strategy
- Services reconfiguration
- IS procurement of services
- Commissioning for acute services
- Commissioning for specialist services
- Performance Management of clinical care
- Evidence based care
- Statistical health care modelling
- Clinical Audit Service reviews
- PFI, PPP
Products to understand factors affecting efficiency and profitability; using comparisons with national and international norms.
