Health sector specialists from Alium
To deliver the change agenda for healthcare, NHS and private sector organisations need to enhance their capability to implement strategy, streamline commissioning, restructure delivery and lead vital programmes. Alium can help provide that expertise, in a flexible and timely way.
Though the UK healthcare sector continues to evolve, there are two fundamental principles that are directing decision-making and delivery across every NHS trust and healthcare provider:
- The drive to make care more patient-centric, and
- The ongoing commitment to improving efficiency.
These principles underpin the changes and current priorities in healthcare: increased contestability across the sector, a new and decentralised approach to commissioning, greater focus on prevention rather than just treatment and ultimately payment by results.
If you need immediate access to experienced executives to help achieve these goals, Alium’s Health Practice [LINK to Anton Fishman’s biography on page 2.1.1.1 The Alium team] can provide them.
The urgent need for additional management
With so much transformation underway – on top of the relentless challenges of doing the ‘day job’ – it is understandable that healthcare organisations frequently need additional management skills to lead change programmes, roll out new financing and operational models, and take responsibility for vital issues like staff development. But many of these capabilities were not honed in the NHS of the past.
This is precisely why NHS organisations, as well as private providers of capital healthcare, are turning to Alium.
Understanding the pressures of healthcare today
Our interim managers understand not only the changing health sector as a whole, but also the very particular pressures facing health sector managers. That understanding comes directly from experience, working in the health sector at senior levels. But crucially, nearly all of our interim managers also bring skills honed in the private sector – in areas such as procurement, HR, Finance, IT and programme management.
This combination of skills and experience means that when you use an Alium interim manager, you can immediately delegate specific goals and responsibilities to them – reducing the burden on in-house managers.
Unlike management consultants, Alium health sector specialists work as part of your organisation, with delegated authority to:
- Improve patient pathways
- Enhance workforce management
- Programme-manage change initiatives
- Develop world-class commissioning
- Manage facilities and estates
- Engage clinicians in change and transformation
- Introduce and embed best practice.
See our Health sector case studies to find out more about the kind of roles our interim managers can take on – and the results they deliver
Contact our health sector practice to discuss your interim leadership requirements