Commissioners

Amongst its many responsibilities, the NHS commissioning function has a key responsibility for ensuring that services for their population are commissioned in a way which delivers:

  • Improved health
  • Better clinical outcomes
  • Excellent patient experience and productivity
  • A reduction in health inequalities
Whilst also determining local health needs and the services necessary to meet those, having regard to the resources available to them and fulfilling these requirements, they have a duty to make arrangements to secure continuous improvement in the quality of care.

Meeting these requirements at a time of static budgets, increasing costs and continuing organisational changes is an on-going and constant challenge, often leading to particular concerns in:
  • Quality of care
  • Patient safety
  • Increasing the level of patient/clinical contact
  • Reducing length of stay
  • Minimising bed blockage
It is in these areas that Cayder PFM comes into its own and supports all areas and functions of both the commissioning and provider arms ability to respond to these challenges.

Cayder CFM reduces the amount of manual administration that clinical staff currently have to prepare and maintain in relation to patient details, status and their planned care pathway. At the same time it creates a pan-service single view of the patient (a single version of the truth) that allows the captured data to be analysed, re formatted and re-used for other functions including:
  • Consultants lists
  • Discharge planning
  • Transfers
  • Hotel services
  • Effective communication with service partners e.g. community and social care services and GPs
All of the above, delivered in an electronic interactive format that can be viewed, edited and interrogated from any authorised location and device, allows clinical staff more time for patient care and interaction and trust management, the information required to ensure the delivery of cost-effective, safe and quality ensured services.

With the application of Cayder PFM in their provider services, commissioners can not only support the delivery of quality value for money services, they can also have shared access to key performance data that provides for a more effective commissioning function.