How we’ve helped our NHS clients

We have worked with the NHS on a number of levels, from working directly with the Department of Health, to Primary Care Trusts, Acute Trusts, Clinical Commissioning Groups and hospices. Our help has included the development of large-scale quality improvement programmes, the improvement of patient outcomes, safety, service efficiency and cost savings. We have helped our NHS clients to:

• Develop the strategy for becoming a Statutory Clinical Commissioning Group


• Deploy a total quality approach across a PCT provider organisation including breakthrough improvements to the patient experience around 18 week wait, wound management and out of hours care


• Increase capacity in outpatients with reduced infection risk, morbidity and mortality and identified savings of £4 million


• Improve the blood administration process with a 25% reduction in overall process time


• Eliminate inefficiencies in procedures for admitting & discharging heart surgery patients significantly reducing intensive care periods

The challenge of improving patient care is on-going in the NHS, but this is made all the more difficult with the current financial pressures. Oakland Consulting can help you to improve patient care to meet targets whilst simultaneously reducing costs, therefore mitigating some of the financial ‘squeeze’.

Our NHS clients include

The Department of Health, NHS Darlington, Clinical Commissioning Groups, Leeds General Infirmary and St Margaret’s Hospice.

What our NHS clients are saying

“The most positive experience of working with management consultants I’ve ever had. You were always flexible in meeting our requirements and developed really effective solutions…” Carole Harder, Director of Provider Services, NHS Darlington

“I’ve seen many different improvement methodologies come and go in my 33 years working in the NHS. For me, DRIVER is an approach that makes good practical sense and stops you jumping from the problem to the solution without considering the improvement options. My team are using DRIVER to make our work more efficient, more effective and ultimately to get more children into our improved services” Darlington PCT - Sue Hood, Children & Young People’s Health Lead

To contact one of our NHS consultants for immediate help or further information please contact us or telephone: +44 (0)113 234 1944