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Our insights offer a clear view of the key issues shaping healthcare today. Covering topics from workforce management to technological innovation and sustainability, we provide expert analysis and data-driven perspectives to support informed decisions and future planning.

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Building the future for clinical trials

Healthcare is ever-changing. The life sciences industry must adapt to keep pace with this evolution, ensuring that clinical trials meet the needs of patients and participants.

Futureproofing clinical research through flexible resourcing

The way clinical trials are delivered is undergoing a transformative shift, redefining what it means to be efficient, cost-effective and patient-centric in an ever-evolving healthcare landscape.

Three ways to deliver on the Strategic framework for NHS commercial in 2024

The 2023 HCSA Winter Conference and the publication of the Strategic framework for NHS Commercial provided a timely backdrop for procurement professionals to rethink their approach for the coming year ahead.

Winter resilience: Overcoming seasonal pressures to make winter business as usual

Every year, the NHS braces for an influx of demand. Often related to an increase in people experiencing acute respiratory illness and noroviruses, the very young and elderly are most at risk.

Reflections on IHPN’s Annual Summit

The Independent Healthcare Providers Network (IHPN) brings all types of independent healthcare providers together, supporting the delivery of great patient care. Alex Ryan, Group Director of Service Development, attended the IHPN’s ninth Annual Summit which explored the challenges and opportunities facing independent healthcare providers in a rapidly changing health system.

Breaking boundaries: New mobile healthcare solutions to tackle waiting lists, GP access, immunisation drives and more

Accessible healthcare, available when and where patients need it most, is one of the biggest challenges of our generation. Now, a powerful new solution from two expert providers in the global healthcare sector is set to change the landscape of how and where people access healthcare services.

Virtual wards – ‘realising the potential’ webinar round up

A deep dive paper from NHS Confederation, in partnership with Acacium Group.

Realising the potential of virtual wards

Virtual wards are digital services that support clinicians in managing patients remotely across a broad range of clinical specialties and pathways. They’re increasingly being used by the NHS to provide care through virtual consultations, remote diagnostics, and where appropriate, therapeutic interventions.

Best practice approach to the launch and management of Urgent Treatment Centres

Urgent Treatment Centres have been established alongside many Emergency Departments in England, and national policy is encouraging wider adoption. They aim to divert work away from the emergency department to enable staff to focus on the management of the more seriously ill and injured. There is great variability in how…

Insights Bulletin: Tackling health inequalities in care

Acacium Group is one of the NHS’s largest partners offering staffing, managed services and innovative delivery models to local health and social care systems.

Acacium Group’s Digital Pathology Think Tank: Helping to shape the future of healthcare

Acacium Group’s Digital Pathology Think Tank brought together experts to advise on how best to apply a digital pathology workforce to existing clinical pathways.

Life sciences talent mobility – is the UK losing out?

As healthcare becomes increasing global demand for the specialists who play a critical role in the next phase of ‘medicine evolution’ is at an all-time high.

Acacium Group’s Digital Innovations Think Tank: Children and Young People’s mental health

Acacium Group’s Digital Innovations Think Tank seeks to bring together experts to advise on how best to apply digital innovation to existing care pathways.

Insights Bulletin: Transforming diagnostic services through Xyla

Acacium Group has its origins as a provider of flexible staffing to the NHS. Over time, we have worked closely with the NHS diagnostic services into which we place those staff to identify whether – through the use of technology – the staff time can be deployed in smarter ways.

Maximising NHS capacity

At the start of 2020, as a proportion of the population, the NHS had some of the lowest numbers of hospital beds, diagnostic equipment and healthcare workers amongst OECD countries.

Empowering women in procurement: Highlights from the HCSA Women’s Network 2024 conference

The HCSA Women’s Network celebrates women in procurement and supply chain roles across the NHS. The 2024 Conference was an opportunity to support women across the healthcare sector in achieving their ambitions,