Archipelago Healthcare – Better Healthcare in Mind
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 [...]
Consultants from Archipelago Healthcare 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 handled essential work streams that resulted in contract award, bringing to bear [...]
Archipelago Healthcare Ltd learned this month that a paper describing lean work completed with Buckinghamshire Crisis Services and co authored with Consultant Psychiatrist Danny Allen and then Service Manager Wendy Blaylock, has been peer reviewed and accepted for publication in The Psychiatric Bulletin Psychiatric Bulletin (2009) 33: 252-254. doi: 10.1192/pb.bp.107.018499 © 2009 The Royal College [...]
Archipelago Healthcare Ltd has been profiled in a paper describing lean work completed with Buckinghamshire Crisis Services. Co-authored by Consultant Psychiatrist Danny Allen and then-Service Manager Wendy Blaylock, the work has been peer reviewed and accepted for publication in The Psychiatric Bulletin… Psychiatric Bulletin (2009) 33: 252-254. doi: 10.1192/pb.bp.107.018499 © 2009 The Royal College of [...]
Barely out of my final exam and I was making the journey back home from Nottingham – where I had been at University – for the last time. Finals were over, my place on the NHS Graduate Management Training Scheme was secured, and most of the summer lay ahead. What is one to do? Relax [...]
Freshly graduated, Ned Hobbs was thrown into an internship at Archipelago which opened his eyes to the frenetic world of healthcare in the UK…. Barely out of my final exam and I was making the journey back home from Nottingham – where I had been at University – for the last time. Finals were over, [...]
Archipelago Healthcare Ltd make it into May’s edition of Leading Minds, the newsletter of the Mental Health and Learning Disability Nurse Directors’ and Leads’Forum.
Nursing hours on inpatient mental health wards are precious. If they fall too low, there are a series of knock on effects that can send ward systems on a downward spiral. One of our clients, a Mental Health Foundation Trust has experienced just this problem with one of its adult wards and this deficit in [...]
It is disingenuous to suggest that operational turn around in mental health services can be achieved using Lean methods without first doing the groundwork. This is why some will jump on the Lean ‘band wagon’ and then jump straight back off it again. Organisations in other sectors that have succeeded using Lean methods were ‘no [...]
It is one year ago this month that the Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Service belonging to one of our major clients, turned a corner! In October 2006 it was becoming clear to our client (now a large Mental Health Partnership Foundation Trust) that one of its two ‘county size’ crisis resolution and home treatment [...]
