Improving health and healthcare through more effective structures, processes and knowledge management

Health Strategies is an independent consultancy specialising in the management of healthcare organisations. It is concerned with the structures, processes and knowledge systems required to create and maintain successful organisations in the rapidly changing environment.

Health Strategies consultants have worked in areas of change management, strategic planning, process development, knowledge management and performance improvement at all levels of health care organisation: commissioners and providers, primary, secondary and tertiary care. They have been involved in health policy at governmental level and in international programmes. Their priority is the provision of high quality care, by health professionals, to individual patients, and health improvement of communities.

Health care is subject to intense social, technical, economic and political pressure that make it more important than ever that high quality, cost effective services are provided to meet increasing needs and expectations of the community. The current freedoms provide many choices of services to meet these needs, while the financial constraints make the choices more difficult.

Health promotion, disease prevention, curative and continuing care, provided by public and private sectors, by health and social care professionals offer real choices for purchasers and extend the opportunities for providers. Organisations must respond by improving the effectiveness and efficiency of the services if they are to remain viable.

Improvements benefit professionals and most importantly the patients and clients. Professionals have the key to releasing these benefits, but can only do so when empowered, motivated and secure within a successful organisation.

Health Strategies has the skills and experience to help.

Health Strategies Ltd., Willsmead, High Street, Abington Pigotts, Hertfordshire, England SG0 0SD

Office phone: +44 (0) 1763 853397

Here are just some of the projects that Health Strategies consultants are involved in:

Working with a health community to implement the UK national strategy Information for Health

Positively Diverse

Positively Diverse is a UK national organisational development programme with the goal of changing the culture of the NHS in line with the strategic aims set out in 'Working Together'. We are encouraging local action to create an environment where differences between staff are not just tolerated, but cherished. These differences include gender, age, racial origin, sexual orientation and disability.

Working with an large teaching hospital to develop, procure and implement an Electronic Patient Record: a key element in their Information Strategy

Health Strategies is patron and a key contributor to the organising committee of medinfo2001 the triennial world wide congress of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) to be held in London, 2^nd to 5^th September 2001

An edited collection of original papers on Health Informatics topics

Health Strategies provides a range of consultancy services, including:

Links to other health care sites will be included soon.

Last Revised: 3^rd January 2000