Archipelago Healthcare – Better Healthcare in Mind
The service is being developed to provide a timely sub-acute nursing response in situations where, without that support, a hospital admission would inevitably result.
Archipelago are delighted to have been selected from a field of 10 other suppliers to support the Commercial Division of South Central Ambulance Service as they further develop the competitiveness of their Commercial Service Division.
Archipelago develop approaches and training modules which seem to be needed frequently by clients
Archipelago is delighted to be working with clinicians and managers at Community Healthcare Oxfordshire as they develop their community services.
The OBMH Quality & Productivity site has been launched, designed to promote the sharing of ideas and information throughout OBMH and to enable the sharing of best practices.
Some Archipelago Healthcare Ltd’s extensive work with the Trust is ’show cased’ in articles written by the staff with whom we have worked:
Community Acute Service Improvements Community Acute [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
