22 July 2022
Case studyPharmacy support to Lancashire and South Cumbria COVID-19 vaccination programme
We provided insight to clinical enquiries, produced reports and worked to develop standard operating procedures to help improve patient…
10 May 2022
Case studyCOVID-19 vaccine safety at primary care network vaccination centres
We ensured that vaccination centres functioned with safety at the highest level by training staff and providing ongoing senior…
23 November 2021
Case studySupporting infection prevention and control safety during COVID-19
We managed a programme of implementing infection prevention and control safety principles to reduce infection rates and provide better…
11 August 2021
Case studyQuick and easy patient referrals for post-Covid illness
Our Data Quality team developed a custom data input template to streamline referrals of patient with post-Covid illness, saving…
21 June 2021
Case studyProviding rapid recruitment services to NHS trusts in support of COVID-19 vaccination drive
Our work supported the recruitment of the bank and volunteer staff working at vaccination centres, at a time of…
21 May 2021
Case studyClearing a 5,000-patient backlog of continuing healthcare assessments
We worked in partnership with local authorities to successfully complete retrospective assessments of individuals supported via COVID-19 funding arrangements…
29 April 2021
BlogBlog: My life as senior nurse on the mass vaccination programme
Kelly Bishop, Senior Nurse In this blog, we hear how Kelly Bishop, a senior nurse within NHS Midlands and…
21 April 2021
Case studyProviding workforce resource and expert pharmacy support to Nightingale hospital
We successfully redeployed two existing members of staff at short notice to provide pharmacy onsite support at Manchester’s NHS…
29 March 2021
NewsCIO on pandemic lessons about health inequalities in The Times report
Our Chief Information Officer, Debbie Bywater, took part in a roundtable informing yesterday’s The Sunday Times report on ‘Future of…
26 March 2021
Case studyMobilising a “Gold Command Room” to ease system pressure
We set up a “Gold Command Room” in collaboration with partners from across the Lancashire and South Cumbria health…
25 March 2021
Case studySupporting the deployment of interim scheduling software for COVID-19 vaccinations
We facilitated the implementation of SimplyBook, an interim solution for COVID-19 vaccinations scheduling, until the national system was operational.…
25 March 2021
Case studyManaging local delivery of the national vaccination programme
We provided programme and project management support to implement the national COVID-19 vaccination programme in Herefordshire, Worcestershire and the…
19 March 2021
Case studyEquipment, software, connectivity – what it takes to digitally enable vaccination sites
Among the many workstreams needed to rapidly establish vaccination centres across England, digital enablement is one of the most…
8 March 2021
NewsA huge recruitment drive in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin has seen nearly 1,000 new staff added to the roster…
24 February 2021
NewsWhy some communities may be at risk of lower vaccine uptake
Data from the first wave of the pandemic showed that people from certain backgrounds and communities are at higher…
22 February 2021
NewsKnowing our patch: Free demographic and health inequalities analysis
We produced a series of ‘Knowing Our Patch’ reports which provide a range of demographic and health inequalities data…
3 February 2021
Case studyImproving Hard to Source Items (HTSI) supply chain resilience during COVID-19 surge
Following the COVID-19 surge in demand for clinical consumables and services, we were tasked with finding alternative ways to…
3 February 2021
NewsHelping the Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care System vaccinate patients against COVID-19
As a key system partner, NHS Midlands and Lancashire (NHS ML) is actively supporting the COVID-19 vaccination programme in…
10 November 2020
Case studyRapidly rolling out video consultations during the COVID-19 pandemic
NHS Midlands and Lancashire’s (NHS ML’s) change management specialists have ensured the rapid introduction of video consultations across the…
2 October 2020
Case studySupporting the rapid procurement of ventilators during the COVID-19 pandemic
NHS ML seconded over a senior member of staff with specialist procurement expertise to support the government’s ventilator procurement…
6 August 2020
Case studyRapid development of a system-wide COVID-19 sit-rep dashboard
A much-needed daily dashboard was produced at pace to provide crucial up-to-date reporting on COVID-19 developments across Leicester, Leicestershire…
16 July 2020
Case studyIncreasing uptake of Electronic Repeat Dispensing (eRD)
We responded quickly and to very short timescales to the demand to improve the utilisation of electronic repeat dispensing…
