Clinical Policy Development and Review Service
Having clear treatment policies in place ensures that referral, treatment, and funding decisions are appropriate, clinically effective, cost-effective, and ethical.
Ensuring policies are reviewed regularly and updated in response to new clinical evidence, technology advancements, and changing patient needs is also a crucial element given healthcare is a dynamic field.
We’re already bringing the benefits of robust clinical policy development to several clients in the Northwest. Our best-in-class approach has influenced the development of a nationwide toolkit for policy development.
Clinical Policy Development (New or Existing)
Our clinical policy development process is made of important components managed by our experience programme management team, including:
- Clinical evidence review
- Clinical and stakeholder engagement with health systems (GPs, consultants, providers, the third sector)
- Patient and public engagement (patient interest groups)
- Financial impact modelling
- Quality and Equality impact and risk assessments
- Education and training to understand the basis of clinical policies and support interpretation
- Support for implementation, such as updating contracts, ongoing monitoring and evaluation of impact and outcomes.
Clinical Policy Development process review
Our clinical policy development process review can assess your existing policy development processes and provide recommendations to ensure future policies are developed robustly and able to stand up to scrutiny and challenge.
Our process review can help to ensure your clinical policies are grounded in the latest medical research and best practice. We can also enhance transparency making it easier for stakeholders to understand how decisions are made and ensuring accountability.
We can improve quality and consistency by identifying areas for improvement, ensuring that your policies meet high standard of quality.
Clinical Policy Harmonisation
Our clinical policy development team can harmonise your existing clinical policies undertaking a policy mapping exercise and evidence-review to identify strengths and weaknesses and make policy recommendations to lessen risk and enhance understanding of aims and national requirements.
In line with our robust clinical policy development processes we match your policies to the clinical evidence base, your strategic circumstances and commissioning priorities, identifying and engaging with key stakeholders using a collaborative partnership approach.
Financial impact modelling
Financial impact modelling is a key component of our Clinical Policy Development and Implementation Service. We can create bespoke financial models to assess the cost implications of your proposed new policies. Helping you to ensure that funding decisions are based on robust, transparent, and evidence-based assessments alongside the economic implications
Working in partnership with Business Intelligence colleagues and using our clinical coding expertise we can robustly inform your clinical policy decisions. Helping you to understand the economic implications of implementing or changing your policies. Ensuring that your policies are not only clinically effective but also affordable, cost-effective and sustainable.
Clinical and stakeholder engagement
Our Clinical Policy Development team can tailor engagement processes to support active participation in policy development decisions, allowing clinicians alongside policymakers to contribute their expertise and insights at every stage to ensure diverse perspectives are considered.
We will establish clear and open communication channels for sharing information, discussing concerns and making informed decisions.
We can also tailor patient and public involvement and provide the capacity and expertise required to seek the views of patients and the public whether your that is on-line surveys, interviews or focus groups.
Equality & Quality impact assessment
We can help you to meet your legal requirements by undertaking Equality and Quality impact assessments of your policies to understand the likely impact any policy changes. An efficient and effective assessment using an evidence-based tool and or your existing quality assessment tools as you prefer.
We can help you understand the potential risks around each policy or change and provide you with recommendations.
Clinical practice change management support
We can develop information and education packages to prepare all stakeholders for change.
Providing tailored training and education materials to support stakeholders understanding of the new policies and their importance.
We can establish transparent and open communication channels to keep everyone informed about the changes and their implementation.
For advice or to discuss how we can support your ICS please contact us.