Archipelago Healthcare – Better Healthcare in Mind
Archipelago recently completed a comprehensive review of medical structures for a major mental health foundation trust. The review took several weeks to complete during which Archipelago worked alongside clinical directors to gather testimony and data from patients and their psychiatrists. Archipelago remains involved, facilitatiing working groups made up of consultant psychiatrists. Significant changes have been agreed that [...]
Archipelago led work streams which allowed mental health services in Buckinghamshire to improve the usage of Ambulance Trust contracted journeys (already block purchased to convey service users to and from wards and day services) and significantly reduced the number of journeys that were abandoned or wasted (approximately £60,000 of savings were made compared with previous year). Oxford and [...]
Bringing together the clinicians also brought together differing systems of recording activity and waiting lists. Timely recording of contacts in line with PCIS guidance has allowed more accurate reporting for each individual staff member, each locality and for the service as a whole in terms of productivity and quality.
I would make the following observations about measures and stimulating high quality, low cost operations:
Flow
Measures that describe flow through the system such as length of stay (provided they are clearly defined and interpreted) are most likely to encourage frontline staff to eliminate costly sources of failure and waste which themselves detract from high quality care.
Flow [...]
What are the essential measures to stimulate high quality, low cost operations in mental healthcare?
I would make the following observations about measures and stimulating high quality, low cost operations:
Flow
Measures that describe flow through the system such as length of stay (provided they are clearly defined and interpreted) are most likely to encourage frontline staff to [...]
Over two years Archipelago Healthcare Ltd has supported work to build a Lean mental health organisation. Work has been focused in selected adult services: Community Acute Services (Crisis), CMHTs and on wards.
Work has usually centred on rebuilding the basic team competencies, systems and processes that have been eroded by years of underfunding and successive restructuring. [...]
Working with Clinicians and Managers to Build a Lean Organisation…
Over the past two years Archipelago Healthcare Ltd has supported work to build a Lean mental health organisation.
Work has been focused in selected adult services: Community Acute Services (Crisis), CMHTs and on wards.
The work has usually centred on rebuilding the basic team competencies, systems and processes [...]
In June 2009 Archipelago Healthcare Ltd completed a major piece of work in the field of Psychological Therapies.
The work stream involved: Understanding staff needs through observation, interview and data collection. Designing developing and facilitating the adoption of a solution (created by adapting the local information system (PCIS) to better serve stakeholders; most especially patients) and [...]
In June 2009 Archipelago Healthcare Ltd completed a major piece of work in the field of Psychological Therapies…
The work stream involved:
Understanding staff needs through observation, interview and data collection.
Designing developing and facilitating the adoption of a solution (created by adapting the local information system (PCIS) to better serve stakeholders; most [...]
Consultants from Archipelago Healthcare Ltd have just completed a major piece of work assisting a dynamic provider of out of hours primary care services to secure and implement a major contract to deliver primary care services to the entire population of Worcestershire.
Archipelago Healthcare Ltd handled essential work streams that resulted in contract award, bringing to [...]
