Health Consultancy
HAI works with health authorities, hospitals, and GP clinical commissioning groups to analyse health problems throughout the UK and beyond..
HAI examines:
- Future strategies
- Health performance and targets
- Quality and outcome measures for specialties / conditions
- Clinical audit and governance
- Specialty purchasing for health authorities / GP's
- Links with other agencies
- Talks on health performance, quality and outcome
- Hospital performance measures
- Demand containment
- Discharge policies
HAI provides accessible and relevant information. HAI undertakes 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.
HAI services have recently been effectively delivered in Wales, England and Nigeria.
HAI aims at clinician consensus. We ensure results are easily measurable and data collection costs are minimal We are 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 proxy measures of good outcome are usually more practical. Internet data availability means patients increasingly value quality and outcome data.
HAI examines the needs of individual care groups. Strategy, quality, outcomes and cost are examined. We use short practical overviews of local health delivery. We work in consultation with local staff. We make extensive use of comparative data putting local hospital performance into perspective. These include:
- National statistics
- Demographic and social trends
- Population variations in health provision
- Staff resource availability
- 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.
The National Health Service (NHS) is introducing major reforms with greater emphasis on service purchasing at primary care level, more explicit costing and quality and outcomes being a key element in any contracting process.