Garry McCord joins HBSUK on 23rd January 2023 as Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Garry has held a number of roles including CEO, COO and CPO. He has experience in Products and Technology in Healthcare. Mark Fountain, Founder and Executive Chairman of HBSUK said: It is a very exciting time for Garry to join HBSUK as we grow rapidly and expand our products and service offerings. HBSUK is the only company able to deploy blended digital and physical pathways, covering insourcing and outpatient services across the majority of clinical specialities. The Company works in both the Private and NHS sect ..read more

Most NHS Trusts will need external support to recover their pre-Covid waiting list position. The choice is normally insourcing or outsourcing. What are the differences? After an incredibly difficult 18 months, NHS Systems are now under immense pressure to provide a quicker and more efficient service. In practical terms, outsourcing uses a third-party organisation to perform a clinic at an alternative premise to the NHS trust. In contrast, insourcing is when a third-party organisation brings their workforce into a hospital to work within the same physical location. As the UK’s longest standing ..read more

Case study Background Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust (MSE) were facing challenges, post Covid-19, in recovering their waiting lists. They had identified Two Week Wait Breast Clinics (2WW) as a challenge, with a growing waiting list of GP referrals and the 2 week waiting time target not being met. Recovering the service, to ensure patients were seen within 2 weeks was proving challenging, with staff shortages due to Covid-19 isolation and restricted time to increase capacity. MSE approached HBSUK to identify an innovative capacity solution, to reduce patient waiting times. MSE had exp ..read more

Did you know that you could save up to £50,000 per year from 1 nurse from nurse agency fees by utilising the international recruitment pathway? What is international recruitment? At its core, international recruitment involves hiring someone from overseas to work at your organisation. However, it is much bigger than just ‘hiring’. As per the NHS Long Term Plan, “International recruitment will be a vital component of support for ongoing management of COVID-19 in areas across England, for other service pressures, and recovery for the NHS from the pandemic.” We are asking an individual to reloca ..read more

We are excited to announce the launch of our new whitepaper titled ‘6 million* and rising: can digital tackle the elective backlog?’ Authored by a range of experienced healthcare leaders and experts, including Professor Stephen Smith, Titus Burwell, Professor Mark Goodfield and Mark Emerton; this whitepaper explores how digital solutions can support the NHS and looks at recent examples of solutions implemented within the healthcare system. The NHS has seen record numbers of people accessing services in recent years and has struggled to cope with the demand. As a result, waiting lists have ris ..read more

Thousands of trauma and orthopaedic patients across the country are waiting longer than the NHS standard to see specialists, but one health board is slashing waiting times by treating patients in the evenings and at weekends. Like other hospitals across the UK recovering from the impact of COVID-19 pandemic, Swansea Bay University Health Board (SBUHB) was facing higher than normal trauma and orthopaedic wait lists, with over 8,300 people waiting 36+ weeks for treatment in November 2021 when compared to just 1,195 in April 2019 [1]. As part of their COVID-19 Recovery Plan, in November 2021, SB ..read more

HBSUK held a webinar in conjunction with Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust to discuss a joint project designed to address the trust’s growing dermatology backlog. The webinar looked at how Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust implemented Virtual Lucy, a virtual solution to tackle its dermatology backlog, and will explored how digital transformation can free up capacity within the NHS. See Professor Stephen Smith, Professor Mark Goodfield, Titus Burwell and Lucy Cassidy discuss feedback and learnings from their experience implementing Virtual Lucy within Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust ..read more

Case study Earlier this year we worked with AXA Health to provide a service upgrade for their MSK patients. This involved the implementation of a new pathway with a digital first approach, allowing members to access and experience healthcare in a new way. Read more about the project and how we have enabled patients to take control of their care. What we did According to NHS England, Musculoskeletal (MSK) conditions make up to 30% of a GP’s caseload. There is potential for many of these patients to be managed virtually - without the need for an in-person appointment. When left untreated, MSK c ..read more

Medical Advisory Board, HBSUK Up to 20 new players have entered the insourcing sector only in the last two years, a clear indicator of the attractiveness of the market, Charles Byrne, managing director of HBSUK, a UK insourcing provider, tells HealthInvestor UK. Notwithstanding the competition, the group’s revenue is expected to grow by up to five-fold by 2023. HBSUK was established in 2012. Today the group works both in the NHS and in the private sector with its biggest single commercial customer being AXA Health, a major global player in health insurance. In the last five years, the group’s ..read more

Removes need for GP referral AXA Health has rolled out a digital upgrade to its musculoskeletal service, Working Body, for group users. In collaborating with HBSUK, the service allows employees to self-register and book a treatment pathway for muscle, bone and joint ailments, without the need for a GP referral. Focused on a digital triage designed by consultants and musculoskeletal clinicians, the service directs users to appropriate support and appointments with HSBUK clinicians, physiotherapists or orthopaedic specialists, followed by further support steps such a s home exercises, scans or ..read more