Population Health Management
Transform health outcomes in your area through expert population health management consulting
Population Health Management (PHM) is an integral part of national NHS policy and local ICS strategies, and with good reason – this powerful approach can transform health outcomes whilst targeting resources at where they are most needed. Increasingly, health systems are embracing such preventative healthcare, using data-informed strategies to ensure local people stay healthier for longer and to reduce health inequalities.
To achieve success in this area, today’s healthcare leaders must confidently leverage population health data, through digitised services and integrated data tools. The creation of seamless care interventions across the patient journey is crucial, coupled with the capability to monitor services, assess risk, and forecast outcomes. This work must happen collaboratively, with the system working as a whole, rather than in organisational or care setting silos.
Our approach
Our expertise in healthcare consulting and data innovation, combined with unrivalled access to UK healthcare data, uniquely positions us to provide PHM advice. We have a clear understanding of what is needed to support this approach at system, place and neighbourhood levels, from strategic planning and data infrastructure through to local implementation. Our work focuses on close collaboration with stakeholders, seeking to co-develop solutions and enable local knowledge transfer and skills building. This ensures your PHM strategies are not only data-informed, focusing on understanding opportunity and highest return on investment, but also locally relevant and sustainable.
Collaborate with us to benefit from:
- Our extensive healthcare expertise – we’ve delivered projects in over 70% of ICSs and half of NHS Trusts in the UK.
- Award-winning data innovation expertise, and unparalleled access to UK healthcare data.
- Digital product advice – we support you to leverage existing software or can tailor our own PHM tools, which are available on G-Cloud and supported by extensive data access.
- Best practice implementation and collaboration advice, based on proven processes that have worked in many other ICS areas.
Our offer
Our Population Health Management consulting offer involves:
- Understanding local health needs: identifying priority populations through local needs assessments, risk stratification, and segmentation.
- Developing interventions for priority population cohorts: using opportunity analysis, we co-design changes to pathways, data infrastructure and team ways of working.
- Planning implementation, delivery and evaluation: this includes neighbourhood implementation planning, governance, roles and responsibilities, KPIs and tracking of outcomes.
- Measuring impact through developing KPIs and tracking the outcomes.