Today's healthcare market faces an accelerating array of challenges. The issues confronting NHS Trusts today are far more demanding than those faced in the past and the future looks even more daunting.
Through our continued relationship with the Health sector, we have spent a great deal of time understanding the business challenges facing our NHS clients.
The NHS employs over a million people in the UK, and provides services to more than 50 times that number. Keeping staff, patients and systems up-to-date with the latest information such as news alerts, patient care, infection control, bed availability and training, as well as keeping all of these people informed of the changes and issues that affect them, is a challenging task for NHS IT and Communications departments respectively.
This is further exacerbated by the requirement of the Freedom of Information Act to publish specific documents for public consumption and by targets generated by government. This has huge impact on a Trust’s Information Governance strategy.
It’s extremely important for the NHS to automate as many internal processes as possible to ensure information is updated in real-time. Whilst technology is important for automation, communication mechanisms such as websites, portals and intranets are vital tools in meeting both patient and staff communication requirements.
By drawing on the skills of our highly experienced project management and software development team, we have successfully delivered software solutions which have helped our NHS clients with the following strategic objectives: