Can your Trust help the NHS find £20bn efficiency savings?

The NHS faces a series of tough challenges, to achieve efficiency savings and ‘do more with less’. Trusts need support in meeting these demands – cutting head count to Public Employers is not a palatable option. eShare is exploring imaginative and innovative ways in which NHS organisations can make cash savings.

We can help your organisation. To take part in an informal discussion please call 0845 200 7829.

Executives blind in making decisions

Company law makes no distinction between executive and non-executive directors with regards to the unitary board structure. Therefore, non-executives have the same legal duties, responsibilities, duty of care and potential liabilities as their executive counterparts. Given the increasingly prominent role they play, should the board of directors be asked to present papers at the board without understanding the process that has been undertaken?

Software key to Lansley’s call to reduce unnecessary bureaucracy

 

Andrew Lansley’s announcement immediately following his appointment signalled a push for innovation to increase the bang for buck the health service delivers. This will lead to a move away from expensive software development products and towards solution driven packages delivered through a hosted model.

It has become evident in a number of NHS Trusts that unnecessary layers of governance bureaucracy are failing to deliver higher quality standards of patient care and are instead a hindrance and distraction, wasting vast amounts of NHS time and budgets.

Andrew Lansley in his first statement as Secretary of State for Health says “We will need progressively to be more efficient, to cut the costs of what we do now, to innovate and re-design, in order to enable us to meet increased demands and to improve quality and outcomes.” And continues “This will not happen in a top-down, bureaucratic system.”

Better governance doesn’t have to mean more paperwork agrees eShare. “Too much time and money is being spent on systems and processes that do not work, that drain resources and that fail to ensure high standards as they are intended to do. In the end it is the patients who are suffering and paying the price,” explains Alister Esam, CEO of eShare Health.

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The Private Sector must now start to deliver better value to the NHS

 

As the election results are declared the NHS knows that restructuring to reduce waste and create savings is a priority regardless of the colour of the next Government.

With huge changes afoot under any Government the Private Sector will dramatically change the services it delivers to NHS Trusts, predicts software provider eShare.

“The role of the Private Sector is crucial in reducing costs” claims Alister Esam, CEO of eShare Health, “However NHS Trusts need to stop spending money on traditional Private Sector services and start to buy what the Private Sector delivers best. This includes economies of scale by providing shared investment across multiple trusts and ready-made solutions that have already been successful elsewhere.”

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Stuart Emslie and the Healthcare Governance Review shine a light on eShare

 

The Healthcare Governance Review strives to maintain objectivity and independence when it comes to discussing products or services. However, when they encountered eShare, they felt it to be their duty to bring it to the attention of their readers for their information and possible consideration.

To read in full what Stuart Emslie had to say about eShare, please click here.

How are you reacting to the new Data Protection Act powers?

The new Data Protection Act powers are clear: data breaches will allow the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) to fine Trusts or individuals up to £500,000.

However, if data breaches do occur, the ICO will take into consideration what measures were in place to avoid breaches. Transmitting data via email is not a sufficient approach in avoiding such breaches.

The solution is for Health Trusts to embrace secure server technology in order to protect patient data.

Many Trusts that have welcomed board governance software are already able to make online decisions in a secure environment, and will not be at risk of incurring fines from the ICO for data breaches.

Can you afford not to embrace Decision-Making software?

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Hertfordshire Partnership NHS FT uses technology to improve Board Governance

 

Hertfordshire Partnership NHS FT are the latest NHS Trust to improve Board Governance and reduce back-office costs by implementing eShare as their Governance Software solution.

“We recognise the need to find savings from back-office administration, as is set out in guidance such as the NHS Operating Framework, and eShare is helping us significantly in meeting these objectives.”

“Another benefit of eShare is the ability to tackle so many governance issues.”

- Barbara Suggitt, Company Secretary/Head of Corporate Affairs, Hertfordshire Parntership NHS FT

Read more about how Board Governance has helped Hertfordshire Partnership NHS FT.

eShare responds to Francis Report

The  Francis Report is clear: board governance must be a priority and managed efficiently.  The recent launch of The Healthy NHS Board give Boards guidance on delivering to these recommendations.

However Boards need effective tools as well as guidance if they are to be most effective in achieving the highest possible standards in board governance.

In its response to The Francis Report, eShare flags technology as an essential element to enable NHS Trusts to most effectively, and efficiently, implement the recommendations through effective board governance.

Heath Trusts that have embraced board governance software are already driving up board governance standards.  At the same time the same technology is helping towards reducing back-office administration as required by The Operating Framework 2010 and NHS: 2010-2015.

Read our press release here

eShare Health Governance Blog Launches today!

Blogging is a tool in engaging with others with similar issues and requirements.  Already actively embracing the latest social media tools of LinkedIn and Twitter, eShare is now joining the blogosphere.

Visit this site to keep up to date on our news, views and opinions on all things related to Health Board Governance and Board Assurance.

Coming soon is our reaction to The Francis Report, the New Data Protection Act and more.

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