NHS Herts Valleys CCG has awarded a new business intelligence and data management contract to NHS Arden & Greater East Midlands Commissioning Support Unit.
The CSU has been appointed to provide business intelligence, claims management and data management services in a new two-year contract.
Elke Taylor, Acting Chief Finance Officer for Herts Valleys CCG “The service forms a key building block to the CCG’s approach to population health management.”
“This approach supports the local health and care system’s strategic priorities of helping people stay healthy, improving the quality of care, providing more care closer to people’s homes, improving clinical results and ensuring services are sustainable for the future.”
The successful appointment follows a tender process run via the Health Systems Support Framework, will see Arden & GEM support the CCG in covering the provision of data warehousing, business intelligence platforms, commissioning and primary care dashboards, national benchmarking, and claims management. It also includes enhanced capabilities for commissioning end-to-end pathways, and risk stratification techniques for identifying the health needs of patients or groups of patients.
John Parkes, Managing Director at Arden & GEM “We are delighted to have been chosen by Herts Valleys CCG to work alongside them, bringing our business intelligence expertise, knowledge and best practice to this locally tailored service.”
“With a track record of delivering data management services for neighbouring CCGs within the Hertfordshire and West Essex Sustainability and Transformation Partnership (STP), we are well placed to provide strategic advice and support to the CCG and STP, both in meeting their priorities and transitioning to an integrated care system.”
The contract, which commenced on 12 December 2019, has an estimated value of £1.4m and will run for two years, with an option to extend for a further year.
