Healthcare

The UK NHS faces its most dramatic reform in its 60 year history.  £20bn needs to be found in efficiency savings over the next 4 years with more commissioning responsibility being given to GPs and a complete restructure of the healthcare network, including abolishing Primary Care Trusts.

Bourton Group

Such change has to come, however, not at the expense of front line service quality, and helping the healthcare sector achieve this fine balance is where Bourton excels.

Bourton Group has over 40 years experience in leading teams through change and improving operational performance.

Bourton Group is dedicated to working in partnership with healthcare organisations to deliver sustainable performance improvement.  We create and deliver improvement programmes that ensure efficient and effective strategy deployment, establish operational excellence, supports and implements change and drives efficiency and quality improvement throughout the entire organisation.

Bourton Group is expert in a broad range of well proven methodologies that are used for transforming operational and service delivery performance in healthcare. For example, Lean can deliver significant efficiencies of between 20 and 30%. We ensure these efficiencies are sustainable by establishing continuous improvement through the application of powerful yet simple tools that everyone can use in their day to day work.

Six Sigma is another example of a powerful suite of tools and methodology that uses data to improve and control variation in processes. Slightly more complex in its tools and structure, it delivers significant long term benefit through the use of appropriate statistical tools that foster a shift in mindset towards preventing or predicting things going wrong and acting upon them before they do.

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Bourton Group’s collaborative fact based approach lends itself perfectly to overcoming issues faced in healthcare as the sector seeks to improve efficiency, reduce cost and ultimately improve patient experience. Bourton Group supports healthcare professionals throughout the entire journey of change, transforming mindset and the ability to take on and make sustainable change happen.

Typical areas where Bourton Group consultants have experience and expertise:-

  • Redesign of clinical pathways
  • Whole-hospital transformation
  • Service quality improvement
  • Productivity and efficiency gains
  • Increasing throughput of organisational processes
  • Delivery of key DOH targets (e.g. decreasing patient waiting times, elective care, admission and discharge times)
  • Managing activities between acute and commissioning areas
  • Development of outsourced managed services (facility cleaning, estate & equipment maintenance, catering etc....)

Meeting the public sector challenge

Sunday Telegraph when is a cut not a cut

Public Sector Accounts Committee Report

The 5 Principles of Great Lean Service