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Health & Care

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“This new way of thinking has created a service that is as different for my patients as night is to day- they're delighted and so am I”
Dr Rosie Benneyworth - General Practitioner

IN HEALTH & CARE VANGUARD'S CLIENTS HAVE ACHIEVED :

  • Sustained underspend in community care budget – cost avoidance of £1.5m in 2013/14

  • Referrals resulting in statutory funded packages of care reduced to 10.9% – down from 24.1%

  • 28% reduction in residential and nursing care placements

  • 46% reduction in contacts into Social Services

  • Re–referrals reduced by 46% to 10%

  • 30% reduction in assessments

  • Overall reduction of 36% in non elective admissions to hospital in one GP practice

  • 75% of worker’s time now focused on work of direct value to citizens. Pre-intervention 80% of work was waste activity

  • Reduced need or no ongoing need for social care support

  • Prevention of strain / breakdown for carers

Dr. Steve Allder - Stroke Care
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“I cant overstate how powerful the change in thinking is”
Dr Steve Allder - Consultant Neurologist

INPATIENT SERVICES

Cashable Savings:

  • 14% of the whole hospital budget

  • 23% of the neurology budget

  • 17% of externally commissioned care

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OUTPATIENT SERVICES

Patients said:

  • “I have never been seen so quickly”

  • “The doctor had time for me”

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Staff said:

  • “Consultations feel more personal”

  • “The clinic feels much calmer”

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LABORATORY SERVICES

  • Significant reduction in the number of routine liver function tests and full blood count tests. Pre-intervention 60% of liver tests were found to be unnecessary.

  • 40% reduction in urine specimens from GP practices across the area resulting in a cost saving to the CCG of £200k

  • 28% year on year reduction in the number of all biochemistry tests in a single GP practice

  • Increased capacity of specialist microbiologists to provide more targeted help to clinicians dealing with complex cases and ability to use tests results earlier to get the treatment right first time

  • Reduction in use of antibiotics and reduction in duration of symptoms and recurrent infections

  • Reduction in anxiety to patients who were able to get back to normal as quickly as possible or to better understand what new normal would look like for them

  • Significant reduction in incidences of iatrogenic harm

“Here in Amsterdam, we are transforming our social care system thanks to the Vanguard Method. We are working with families to understand what really matters to them. As a result, we have halved the number of children needing to go into care”
Erik Gerritsen - Chief Executive of Bureau of Youth Care

YOUTH PROTECTION

  • Overall savings of 30m euros (£22.9m)

  • Cost saving of 12m euros (£9.1m) within the Youth Protection Amsterdam region and 10m euros (£7.6m) for expensive youth care

  • 50% reduction in the number of families under the care of the organisation from 8,000 (around 20,000 children) to 4,000

  • 61% reduction in protective measures

  • 53% reduction in the number of out-of-home placements

  • 46% reduction in youth parole measures

  • 16% reduction in child custody / wardship

  • 28% reduction in referrals to youth care providers

  • 75% reduction in unnecessary administration

COMMUNITY

  • 17% demand reduction

  • Recurrent savings projected at upwards of £85m per annum

“These results are profound. Citizens previously labeled as lost are starting to live good lives, demand on services is going down and the size of opportunity to reduce cost is staggering”
John van de Laarschot - Chief Executive, Stoke-on-Trent Council

CHILDREN SERVICES

  • 92% reduction in time from referral to the provision of service

  • 50% reduction in failure demand

  • Pre-intervention – 80% of time spent on paperwork and writing reports; post-intervention 80% of time spent face to face with the child and their family

  • Better for children – children only need to see one person (rather than 15)

ADULT SERVICES

If you’d like to talk to a Vanguard expert, please get in touch, we’d love to hear from you.

  • The old system took an average of 62 days simply to assess needs. The new system understands people and their needs and provides the right help on average within 49 days

  • More effective assessment – ‘right first time’ increased from 52% to 90%

  • More efficient assessment – 85% reduction in cost of assessment

  • £3m savings by designing out waste work

  • £2.2m saving in residential homes budget

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