The Business of Healthcare Podcast with Tara Humphrey #308 Understanding the NHS Backlogs with Nicola Ellis-Webb
Can the NHS sustain its current model, especially with the post-COVID backlog?
Join us as we welcome Nicola Ellis-Webb, the Group Healthcare Services Director at Acacium Group, to discuss the intricate and pressing issue of NHS backlogs.
In this podcast, Nicola & Tara discuss:
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Insourcing - a strategy used to address the backlog by bringing in specialist teams to help clear it.
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The different waiting lists within the NHS backlog, depending on the stage of treatment.
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Monitoring the backlog, the importance of looking at trends to assess the impact of interventions.
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Collaboration between the NHS and the independent sectors.
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I’m Tara Humphrey and I’m the founder of THC Primary Care, a leading healthcare consultancy. I provide project and network management to Primary Care Networks and consulting support to clinical leads.
To date, I’ve worked with 11 Training Hubs and supported over 120 Primary Care Networks and 3 GP Federations. I understand and appreciate the complexity of healthcare and what it takes to deliver projects across multiple practices.
I have over 20 years of project management and business development experience across the private and public sector and have an MBA in Leadership and Management in Healthcare. I’m also published in the London Journal of Primary Care and the author of over 250 blogs.
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