Introduction

Maximising the financial and operational impact from your digital investment is a must for any organisation or ICS.

At Channel 3 we help organisations get the very best out of their digital investment, identifying potential savings of over £15 million.

“In Devon… with Channel 3’s support, we’ve developed clear plans for maximising the return on our existing digital investments to improve patient outcomes, support our workforce and drive up overall performance…

… this is a new approach for us and the NHS more broadly. By combining deep digital insight from Channel 3 with the NHS’s own experience of recovery and improvement, we’ve created a powerful combination of talent that will achieve impact at scale and pace.”

Bill Shields, CFO and Deputy CEO, One Devon

The Context

National Challenges

The Darzi Report highlights critical challenges in health and care nationally, reinforced by Health and Care Secretary Wes Streeting’s three strategic priorities “analogue to digital, hospital to community, sickness to prevention”.

Local Pressures

The NHS faces unprecedented demands to cut costs and enhance efficiency. Despite significant investments, many digital systems are underutilised, adding costs without maximising benefits.

Cause for Optimism

We can help you accelerate digital productivity gains, to enhance service delivery and increase efficiency. Together we can create a modern, resilient, health and care system that meets your demands for today, tomorrow, and beyond.

We address digital productivity through the lens of what you can do now, next and in the future.

Now – Be Optimistic

• Leverage your existing technologies.
• Optimise your existing models of care.
• Realise value through digital asset optimisation.

Steps to Achieve Digital Productivity:

Understand Your Digital Baseline: Assess what you have now and how it’s being used.

Scope Opportunities: Identify what more can be achieved from your existing digital investments.

Deliver Value: Minimise duplication, improve functionality, enhance adoption, and centralise digital portfolios.

Read more:

Find out more about what it takes to get the most out of your clinicial systems here.

Next – Be Bold

• Implement new technologies.
• Introduce new models of care.
• Deliver value through digital transformation.

Steps to Achieve Digital Productivity

Prioritise Transformation: Focus on the transformation of people and processes.

Deliver Lasting Benefits: Transition from outdated workarounds to a digital-first culture.

Make sure you are getting the most from your EPR:

Ask yourself:

• Have we realised the benefits outlined in the business case?
• Have we continued optimising post-go-live?
• Is there untapped functionality in our EPR?

Read more:

Learn about five high-impact innovations that improve patient care and lives here.

Learn more about how shared care records help you to better understand a patient’s story here.

Future – Be Ambitious

• Implement new technologies.
• Introduce new models of care.
• Drive digital innovation and transformation.

Steps to Achieve Digital Productivity

Create a Digital-Enabled Clinical Model: Align clinical, business, and digital priorities to establish a forward-looking care model centred on prevention, patient empowerment, and care closer to home.

Embrace Digital Innovation: Realising the potential of digital innovation is everyone’s responsibility within an organisation.

Invest Wisely: Channel 3 can help you prioritise digital expenditure, ensuring that investments are made wisely to deliver a tangible return on investment.

Read more:

Get a view of the future with immersive technology here.

Learn how an innovative wound care app afforded earlier intervention and better patient outcomes here.

The impacts of improving digital productivity

Cash-releasing benefits:

Achieve savings through standardisation, centralisation, and digitisation.

Workforce efficiency:

Enable time to focus on care delivery.

Performance improvement:

Enhance decision-making and operational flow using data-driven insights.

Demand and capacity management:

Improve care coordination.

Who Channel 3 have helped with their digital productivity

Devon ICS

• Identified £15.4m potential cash-releasing savings from digital productivity.
• Supported the delivery of priority digital workstreams contributing to the financial recovery program.

Cornwall and Isles of Scilly ICS

• Developed a digital productivity roadmap to underpin the delivery of the digital strategy.
• Facilitated the realisation of benefits through convergence and transformation.

Leicester, Leicestershire & Rutland ICS

• Identified system-wide digital priorities to support the implementation of the digital strategy.

Read Delivering Digital Productivity below

Get in touch with the team

Eleanor Rollason – Partner | Email: eleanor.rollason@channel3consulting.co.uk

Josh Hutchison – Partner | Email: josh.hutchison@channel3consulting.com

Matt Jones – Partner | Email: matthew.jones@channel3consulting.co.uk

Simone Collins – Partner | Email: simone.collins@channel3consulting.co.uk