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Information for Hospital Trusts
We understand the tremendous pressures hospitals are under with increasing demand, tightening diagnostic targets and a national staffing crisis together combining to cause a perfect storm of pressure on elective services.
Insourcing provides the opportunity to enhance endoscopy capacity in your unit and reduce waiting times for patients. The benefits are obvious. Our expert team will perform the required procedures in your unit to a high standard following your Trust’s policies and standard procedures. Patients do not have to travel elsewhere for their tests, hospital resources are more fully utilised across 7 days and procedural reports are completed on your reporting software in real-time. Compared to outsourcing, this means no delay in transferring patient information, reduced information governance risks and a better handle on quality, performance and governance.
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Benefits of Insourcing with Alimentary Solutions Ltd
We are a clinically developed, led and owned organisation bringing together extensive endoscopic and managerial expertise with only one goal – to deliver the highest standards in endoscopy care.
As a CQC registered endoscopy insourcing service provider we have voluntarily set ourselves the target to exceed UK regulatory healthcare requirements. With us, high standards of clinical and corporate governance come as standard, as does a close working relationship to monitor contractual performance.
Other benefits include:
- Safe, high quality endoscopy provided by JAG-accredited Substantive Consultant Gastroenterologists (no locums or sub-Consultant grades)
- Expert nursing care and decontamination services provided by endoscopy experienced staff
- All staff have demonstrated full compliance with our registration requirements
- We provide endoscopy insourcing below the national tariff and offer highly competitive rates
- We can also provide reception/clerical staff through ASL adding a further cost saving
- Our audits demonstrate very high procedural completion rates and adenoma detection. Currently, around half of our Consultants are Bowel Cancer Screening (BCS) accredited. We confidently and safely perform colonic polypectomy and endoscopic mucosal resection (EMR), minimising recall for repeat procedures
- Though we have our own strict CQC-approved policies, we also adhere to all local Trust policies, procedures and governance standards
“To date we have seen a high endoscopic procedure completion rate, waiting times have reduced significantly, there have been no safety or quality concerns and patient satisfaction is very high. The Alimentary Solutions business model has enabled us to secure clinicians of the highest standard for our patients on a very flexible basis and at rates which represent the best value for money in the market”.
Mark Westwood
Specialty Business Manager, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (2017/18)