Edwards Healthcare Consultancy is able to provide high quality consultancy support to both private and public healthcare organisations in the following areas:

NHS Foundation Trust authorisation
With considerable experience of the NHS Foundation Trust application process Edwards Healthcare Consultancy can reliably steer your organisation through every stage, providing insight and guidance into business plan and financial model development, public consultation, due diligence assessments, quality governance and Department of Health approval.

Organisational/service strategy development
Edwards Healthcare Consultancy will evaluate information derived through available information resources, and translate into requirements for sound and effective business planning and systems development.

Board and corporate governance
Edwards Healthcare Consultancy provides advice and guidance regarding corporate governance and the regulatory requirements for Foundation Trusts, including governor and membership relations, together with risk and assurance framework development.

Strategic and operational performance frameworks
Edwards Healthcare Consultancy provides effective performance analysis and benchmarking, identifying linkages with the use of technology and the development of efficient processes/practices. Underpinned by an understanding of local and national quality, access and performance targets.

Service improvement and efficiency
Using redesign methodologies, including Lean thinking, Modernisation Agency toolkits, demand, capacity and queuing theories, Edwards Healthcare Consultancy provides practical application of theory to service change.

Clinical pathway and decision support development
Pathway redesign and development of decision support tools in collaboration with clinicians, front line staff and associated healcare organisations and agencies.

Market analysis and strategy design
Edwards Healthcare Consultancy provides identification of communication/external relationship requirements, market assessment and identification of business development opportunities.

Strategic & service planning and reconfiguration
Development of clinical output based specifications and clinical briefs for hospital builds/reconfigurations, including patient flow mapping, capacity planning, design specifications and functional proximity matrices.

Benefits realisation
Identification and analysis of benefits arising from service redesign and implementation of IM & T solutions, including detailed modelling of financial and non-financial benefits.

Business case planning and preparation
Ensuring attention to detail Edwards Healthcare Consultancy will assess and interpret complex information, summarising and presenting well-reasoned, structured argument for business cases.