NHS and Healthcare

The NHS landscape is transforming; Hytec deliver IT solutions that facilitate the new era of efficient, front-line health services delivery

With the publication of the NHS Whitepaper ‘Equity and excellence: Liberating the NHS’, it is more important than ever for NHS organisations to procure services that will provide a real cost saving whilst at the same time ensuring that they fulfil the needs of patients by allowing users to give the best possible service to patients. Hytec’s range of consultancy, products and managed services do just this.

The reorganisation of the health sector into the recently proposed, streamlined model presents a number of challenges both for the outgoing PCTs and the newly formed GP Consortia, radically changing the way that practice managers, GPs and service providers interact.

A simplistic overview of the current landscape and proposed changes are shown below:

A combination of experience and insight

Our history of working with the executive and technical audiences of health trusts and organisations has equipped us with a detailed understanding of the challenges that both sets of organisations face in achieving a smooth transition.

With PCT internal IT staff levels being slashed by as much 75% it is vital that a replacement service or solution fills the gap in providing GP practices with network, access and IT services, through the most cost effective method.

To this end there has been a significant thinning of the senior management of PCTs and clusters are forming managed by one central executive and overseen by one CEO, often replacing 4-5 in the previous PCT structure.

In 2013 the newly formed GP Consortia will officially inherit a broad and complex remit, far beyond the levels of commissioning and provider responsibility previously expected of PCTs, they will have relative autonomy and few if any shared support services.

In excess of 50 pathfinder consortia have already been formed and their effectiveness is being assessed across a range of service metrics and performance indicators by SHAs / PCTs.

During this period of transition the key priority of the GP Consortia management should be to ensure that they focus on delivering excellent health care services, rather than being bogged down by the administrative overhead of the day to day running of supporting IT systems and infrastructure.

Hytec can help

Our PracticeLink solution is specifically designed to meet these needs by releasing the GP practice from the need to provision and maintain expensive local practice solutions, in order to provide essential network services such as secure, remote GP access to patient data.

Another integral part of our vision for healthcare IT is delivering transformation change through the adoption of mobile technology in support of community care workers and to deliver the sharing of information across health and social care pathways to the benefit of patients, providers and commissioners.

Our service offerings in the healthcare sector are aimed at both NHS Trusts and private health providers. We provide a wide range of products and services aimed at transforming service delivery while reducing costs in the long term, improving productivity of staff, and getting the most out of your IT infrastructure.

This includes:

• Assessments - providing you with an accurate view of your present situation, mapping out where you want or need to be to achieve strategic goals, compliance directives and business objectives.
• Consultancy services - helping you to deliver business transformation programmes effectively and to achieve those goals identified at the assessment stage.
• Project services - undertaking projects on your behalf in areas such as integration of systems from disparate applications, technical architecture, project management and procurement services.
• Toolsets - Hytec’s in-house developed toolsets allow organisations to mobilise their workforce, updating information securely, in real-time and share sensitive information (such as PID) according to CfH standards.
• Remote management and support – providing 24/7 support and management services to our customers, constantly monitoring critical systems and infrastructures.
• Hosting and management of clients’ N3 connections, firewalls, intrusion detection, mail screening, user authentication, data encryption, SSL VPN access and infrastructure penetration testing - all designed to give our customers complete piece of mind.

If you would like more information on any of the above services click here or call our helpful sales team on 01865 887 428