How the NHS and industry can join forces with data to save lives
The NHS and industry are often "problematic partners". The relationship between both parties has often been challenging with the NHS a...
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How partnering with digital health providers can improve the delivery of GP video consultations
ZPB Associates runs the Directorate for the Digital Healthcare Council (DHC), a trade body for digital health and social care companies....
Five things the NHS and Industry must prioritise in executing the NHS’s data strategy
ZPB’s aim has always been to increase collaboration, accelerate innovation and transform healthcare. We don't believe any one sector or...
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How the NHS and industry can join forces with data to save lives
The NHS and industry are often "problematic partners". The relationship between both parties has often been challenging with the NHS a...
Five things the NHS and Industry must prioritise in executing the NHS’s data strategy
ZPB’s aim has always been to increase collaboration, accelerate innovation and transform healthcare. We don't believe any one sector or...
7 ways to connect with the NHS in 2023
The NHS is under huge pressure right now and increasingly looking to the private sector for solutions to support unprecedented demand and...
- Oct 14, 2020
- 4 min
What is the cost of outpatient appointments?
Face-to-face outpatient appointments require patients to take time off work, travel and organise childcare. This all has a cost to the economy. Earlier this year we sought to calculate the impact on productivity of outpatient appointments by looking at the time working people needed to take off work, and also the cost to the NHS in missed appointments. We tackle the issue in this month’s data briefing from the ZPB analytics unit. Here’s what we discovered: Key findings:
1. £
- Jul 4, 2016
- 2 min
Health tech SME looking to access the NHS? 10 tips from an evening with 10 Digital Ladies
Thursday night saw the gathering of innovators, entrepreneurs, inventors and product developers at the 10 Digital Ladies in Healthtech event held at WeWork South Bank. ZPB’s CEO, Zoe Bedford, spoke at the event which looked at how the private sector, SMEs/ start-ups are working with public sector bodies such as the NHS to transform how we manage our health, and access services such as GPs and our personal records. For those that didn’t manage to make it here are our top 10 ti
- Jun 26, 2014
- 2 min
Is the NHS broken? If so, who should fix it?
Is the NHS broken? If so, who should fix it? These are the questions being asked in policy-making circles right now after four recent events added to the confusion: 1. NHS is number 1 A report by the Commonwealth Fund analysing the best healthcare systems in the world has ranked the NHS number one, above countries such as Sweden and Canada – long held up as exemplars of good healthcare provision. 2. NHS is broke to the tune of £2bn The new top ranking however, was swiftly jux
- Apr 23, 2014
- 1 min
Spring brings new projects and team expansion
We’re delighted to announce five new projects, which we’ll be working on through the spring and summer. Continuing our ambition to help the private and public sectors work together in healthcare we have expanded our portfolio across private, public and not-for-profit with new projects that involve thought leadership, strategy, marketing and connecting people. In the coming months we will be: • Working with an American SME on their market entry strategy as they seek to bring a
- Dec 12, 2013
- 1 min
How to make pathology reconfiguration work
ZPB’s Jennifer Nemeth discusses how the success of two trusts in the South West have changed the way they are delivering pathology services in the region, benefiting patients and making substantial cost savings for the organisations involved.
The article on the HSJ website looks at the success of Taunton and Somerset Foundation Trust and Yeovil District Hospital Foundation Trust in making the decision to seek a specialist partner in pathology and diagnostics, ensuring inves
- Dec 12, 2013
- 2 min
Signposting great care
Austerity and mortality were the twin tracks taken by this year’s Dr Foster Hospital Guide, which was once again edited by Alex Kafetz from ZPB. The Guide looks at how money has been spent on behalf of populations now looked after by Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) and found some areas where spending on less effective operations has risen whilst spending on more effective operations has fallen. It also examined care at the weekends and focussed on middle aged patients wi
- Nov 26, 2013
- 2 min
Culture and Breakfast (strategy wasn’t invited)
By Hilary Rowell, director, ZPB Last week, we held our first ZPB breakfast briefing. This brought together a select group of clients, and others who work with the NHS in various capacities, to reflect on the government response to Francis. Unsurprisingly, our discussion centred on the question of culture and change in the NHS. The criticism that the government response to Francis – or indeed the Francis report itself – won’t change the NHS culture was seen as a non-starter on
- Nov 26, 2013
- 1 min
A Different Angle
Another perspective on the debate started by the The Power of Partnership report, launched a couple of weeks ago: Andrew Taylor, Director of Aldwych partners explains that the new models of contracting suggested do not have anything in them that inherently conflicts with NHS rules on patient choice, procurement and competition. However he adds the caution that “New ways of delivering services will almost always result in organisational winners and losers. In the extreme, a co
- Oct 15, 2013
- 1 min
Health 2.0 and ZPB launch global survey of health tech entrepreneurs
This week, Health 2.0 launched a new global Entrepreneurs Survey aiming to test the temperature of the health tech industry on an international scale. Health 2.0 supports and nurtures innovations that transform health and healthcare, bringing together entrepreneurs, investors and some of the leading thinkers in health technology. The European conference is in London next month and those who complete the survey will get 25 per cent off the ticket price. The survey aims to iden
- Oct 9, 2013
- 4 min
Say hi to Camilla
A big welcome to our new intern Camilla, who started with us this week. Camilla has just returned from Washington DC where she was a Koch Summer Fellow. Before this she studied Politics, Philosophy and Economics (PPE) at the University of Exeter, where she co-founded the first PPE society, interned at The Times, and regularly contributed to the campus paper.
Our intern programme has been running for about 18 months now and we’re rightly proud of it. We are often asked about
- Jan 15, 2013
- 1 min
How can A&E departments reduce patients stress and violence levels?
At ZPB we endorse meaningful and thoughtful design to make large amounts of complex data accesible to the reader. In the above clip, The Design Council has suggested how effective design in A&E departments can reduce patient stress and violence. So simple, yet clever. Check out the video above for more information. (Source: http://www.designcouncil.org.uk/) #design #designinformation #designcouncil #aampe #reducingviolenceandaggressioninAampE #Healthcare
- Aug 22, 2012
- 1 min
Apps in Healthcare
The Guardian posted an interesting article on the benefits of apps in healthcare. The article states that 40% of smartphone and tablet apps currently being produced are connected to healthcare. It goes on to discuss the potential impact of apps for training and professional development. What is not discussed in depth is the potential practical impact of smartphone and tablet apps on the delivery of healthcare in the UK. So, we thought we would add to the debate by introducing
- Sep 15, 2011
- 1 min
Five quick tips on using new social media
For all their merits, healthcare organisations are not always known for their pioneering attitude towards new social media (or NSM, if you feel like there aren’t enough acronyms in your life). We can’t say we blame them. Healthcare is a vast and complex beast that doesn’t lend itself well to micro messages of 140 characters: gr8 news, xciting nu cancer research bt needs more data. Yep, doesn’t quite work. Still, times are changing faster than you can say Quality, Improvement,
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