Organisation Redesign at Aintree Hospitals
May 16, 2010 in Our Track Record
Attractor’s work with a number of NHS organisations has helped to support and deliver improvement activity and realise benefits.
Attractor is often invited to facilitate strategic thinking, present options, identify opportunities, validate some ideas and challenge others.
This was the case with Aintree University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. A case study published by the Department of Health provides a good example of work delivered with an NHS team with strategic plans supported by decisive action.
Attractor had worked with Aintree earlier, supporting diagnosis and problem-solving actions with the Trust, and helping refine plans for deploying the ESR training administration toolkit.
Attractor was asked to support an organisational design review – taking forward local ambitions to introduce more integrated working arrangements and effective service delivery. Read the rest of this entry →

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