Health Consultancy
HAI works with hospitals and health authorities in all specialties throughout the UK and beyond. We deliver effective solutions for cancer and heart disease services. We improve child, maternal and elderly services.
HAI examines:
- Health performance and targets
- Quality and outcome measures for specialties
- Clinical audit and governance
- Specialty purchasing for health authorities
- Future strategies
- Links with other agencies
- Lectures on health performance, quality and outcome
- Hospital target reviews
- Hospital staffing comparisons
- Demand containment
- Discharge policies
HAI provides information which is both accessible and relevant. Talks are tailored to individual situations. HAI provides international overviews, examines population trends and efficiency. We discuss ideal balances between different specialties, quality and outcomes. We cover community care possibilities and the application of new technology. We arrange for topic specific experts from our speakers panel.
HAI services have recently been effectively delivered in Wales, England and Nigeria. For example: the Welsh Assembly government project included quality and outcome measures for 65 specialist services or conditions. These include heart diseases, different cancers, neuro-surgical specialties, eating disorders, fertility treatments, bariatric oxygen therapy and other sub specialties.
HAI aims at clinician consensus. We ensure results are easily measurable and data collection costs are minimal
HAI is mindful that health needs vary from one community to another. Significant variations in hospital and community service performance are assessed.
Policy making
Much progress is still needed in the area of quality and outcome. Mortality and morbidity measures are helpful but shorter term measures of good outcome are usually more practical. Internet data availability means patients increasingly value the availability of quality and outcome data.
HAI examines the needs of individual care groups. We look at strategy, quality, outcomes and, of course, cost. We use short practical overviews of local health delivery. We work in close consultation with local staff. We make extensive use of comparative data to put local hospital performance into perspective. These include:
- National statistics
- Demographic and social trends
- Population variations in health provision
- Staff resource availability
- Clinical governance at hospital level
- Hospital admission and discharge policies
- Links with local communities
- Demand containment
HAI reviews underpin local decision making. We work to achieve amicable clinician agreement. Hospitals take up the largest share of government health spend in all EEC countries. Criticisms of performance variation, cost and quality are always present. Governments, of course, want containment of demand.
In the UK the National Health Service (NHS) has introduced a far reaching system of payment by results. Costs are attached to each procedure and hospitals paid accordingly. Much progress is still needed in the area of quality and outcome.