Edge Health

Care systems and individual providers

We understand the pressure to deliver better care with limited resources.

At Edge Health, we’re proud to work closely with frontline professionals, combining their invaluable work with our data-driven insights. Together, we optimise pathways, streamline operations, and integrate innovative care models.

Join us in shaping a more responsive health service – where your challenges become our shared mission for progress.

Our work in this sector

Enhanced Bed Modelling and Patient Flow

Robust Forecasting and Interactivity at its Core: We use tailored simulations to generate actionable strategies for bed management.
Proactive Risk Mitigation: We help health providers identify key drivers of bed demand, empowering smarter resource allocation.
Accurate Variance Analysis: Our minute-by-minute occupancy modelling reflects real-world scenarios, ensuring accuracy you can trust.
Comprehensive Feedback: Quality outcomes are measured through client feedback, endorsing our analytical tools’ effectiveness in delivering transformative insights.

Demand and Capacity Planning

Future-Proofing Care: From local to system-wide workforce to new technologies at any scale. We assess data quality and horizons scan potential dynamics for robust forecasting and sustainable decisions.
Precise Service Analysis: We draw on data and expert interviews to deeply understand context, and reliably inform our forecasts.
Reporting to suit you: We provide our outputs in a range of formats, from presentations to dashboards, to support you and your stakeholders.
Tackling Unwarranted Variation: We help you keep a system-level perspective, to understand variation and tackle it effectively.

New Technologies and Models of Care

Cutting-Edge Assessment: We provide robust evaluations and roadmaps for effective implementation for emerging technologies.
Assessment at Any Scale: We evaluate innovations from single-trust pilots to national-scale pathways.
ICB Commissioning: We support you in the process of assessing needs, planning and prioritising, purchasing and monitoring health services, to get the best health outcomes.
Effective decision-making: We produce reliable option appraisals and risk assessments to enable optimal decision making.

Ensuring Local Excellence

Target-Driven Optimisation: We align our strategies with mandated targets to achieve service excellence.
Theatre Productivity and Elective Recovery: We help you develop diagnostic tools that support managers and clinicians in individual providers with diagnosing challenges for elective recovery, and identifying opportunities for accelerating it.
Benchmarking: We help you meet targets by investigating gaps and how they compare to the national picture, analysing current capacity and utilisation, population shape and needs, and cross-border flows. We provide you with evidence-led solutions to optimise structurally to achieve CQC and national level standards.

Procurement Analysis

Streamlined Service Analyses: We help organisations and systems (from DHSC to ICBs and Trusts) unlock quality and cost-effectiveness through budget analysis, objective alignment and procurement planning.
Strategic Business Insights: Our business cases provide the clarity you need for confident choices.
Seamless Transitions: Navigate the complexities of mergers and acquisitions with data-driven guidance that ensures smooth transitions and strategic success.
Market Foresight: Our deep market awareness helps you anticipate changes, identify recovery opportunities, and chart a sustainable course.

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Fit for the Future: Demand and Capacity Planning for the Thames Valley Cancer Alliance

Edge Health helped Thames Valley Cancer Alliance tackle growing SACT demand with data-driven analysis and innovative solutions for improved cancer treatment delivery.

System-wide Cancer Pathway Management – CanCollaborate, a tool to monitor and risk-assess PTLs

Edge Health developed CanCollaborate, a system-wide tool that allows Trusts and Cancer Alliances to monitor and risk-assess cancer patient tracking lists across multiple hospitals, enabling proactive management of complex pathways, reducing administrative time, and improving patient outcomes by facilitating joint working and early interventions.

A Proactive Solution to Bed Configurations: Using Simulation to Challenge Narratives

Edge Health developed an interactive simulation tool for a large specialist Trust, enabling proactive bed configuration planning and challenging existing narratives on bed requirements through data-driven insights.

A Data-driven Approach to Planning Radiotherapy Workforce Requirements

Edge Health partnered with Dearden HR to develop a data-driven approach for planning radiotherapy workforce requirements for the West London Surrey & Sussex Radiotherapy Operational Delivery Network, combining demand modelling, workforce analysis, and innovative strategies to address future staffing needs.

Targeting Mental Health inequalities in NW London – supporting data-informed system collaboration

A consortium led by WHi, with Edge Health leading analytics, conducted a data-driven strategic review of mental health services for North West London ICS, identifying areas of unmet need and unwarranted variation, resulting in six agreed system-wide actions to address inequalities and improve core service offerings.

Levelling-Up Cancer Patient Management with Data Engineering

Data engineering is revolutionising cancer patient management, with a focus on Integrated Care Boards (ICBs) and cancer alliances.

Elective Recovery: understanding targets and finding opportunities to increase activity

Edge Health helped a London specialist provider understand and address elective recovery targets by analysing valued activity, identifying key challenges like increased patient complexity and staffing issues, and proposing actionable recommendations to boost elective activity.

Developing Intelligence for Cancer Pathway Tracking

CanTrack, a new platform, helps hospitals meet national targets by streamlining data and communication for cancer teams. Learn how CanTrack tackles bottlenecks and empowers better patient care.

Evaluating AI Implementation in the NHS: Skin Analytics AI-powered Teledermatology

Edge Health’s evaluation of an AI-powered teledermatology pilot at University Hospitals of Leicester revealed its potential to enhance patient access to dermatology services, with scenario modelling suggesting significant future cost savings across the Midlands.

Comprehensive review of Tier 3 & Tier 4 Weight Management Services

Edge Health conducted a comprehensive review of Tier 3 and Tier 4 Weight Management Services in England, revealing significant variations in service provision and the impact of Covid-19, while providing regional reports with recommendations for implementing best practices and improving access to care.

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