Lifecycle Services
Strategy & Network Partnerships
The right strategic decisions minimise risk and optimise value
In the rapidly changing world of network consolidation, changing funding models and continuous technology development, making the right strategic decision is a challenge for any organisation. Pathology partnerships continue to be a key driver for this change.
When embarking on such a complex problem, we’ll provide you with the best possible information, insight and advice to minimise risk and capitalise on opportunities. We not only provide you with the skills and expertise to develop the most effective networks and quantify the value of partnerships, but our experience in delivering similar projects supports the essential change management efforts required.
Transformation Management
Supporting your laboratory with seamless transformation
Transformation projects are common in pathology; these projects can involve complex business changes, streamlining processes, implementing new technology or adopting a new service model or laboratory site. Whichever change you are about to experience, all transformations create some turbulence within services, and require handling with care and experience.
Our mission is to support your lab to innovate and execute successful programmes. At Lifecycle, we have seen and managed many service transformations, and have a deep understanding of how to plan, initiate, and manage a successful transformation project. We know how to work with your teams, speak the language of labs, and have proven methods to facilitate many types of common transformation.
Operations Design & Optimisation
We help you plan services reconfiguration for optimal performance
Pathology services are required to continuously deliver more with less. Budget constraints, increasing demand, changing testing methodologies and staff pressures are all challenges that laboratories face. On top of this, organisational changes, new technology and commissioning changes all have a dramatic impact on delivery of pathology services.
Our team of experts work with stakeholders across your healthcare system to understand the drivers of change and build on your strengths and capabilities to design approaches to deliver high-quality, patient-focused services. Our bottom-up approach to performance improvement makes use of our in-depth understanding of laboratory operations to identify and deliver real change.
Procurement & Outsourcing
Improve performance of the system with smart procurement decisions
Whether you have an in-house or outsourced pathology service, the decisions you make during major procurements for managed service contracts, support services or specialist equipment will impact the diagnostic pathways for at least a decade. We will help you to deliver an end-to-end procurement process clearly defining your strategy and needs, facilitating all documentation and tender stages to contract signature and performance management. This process will be designed to support hospitals and laboratories in ensuring they procure the best possible solution in terms of cost, quality and long-term sustainability.
Contract Management
Improving supplier management to ensure performance and costs
Managing change successfully is a challenge for any organisation. However, the value promised by major laboratory changes can go to waste if contracts are not properly managed over their entire life. With 20 years’ experience in managing healthcare contracts, we’re ideally placed to support the lab in the short, medium and long term.
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