NHS Improvement, 23 May 2016
- Working with Aldwych Partners and Cass Business School, NHS Improvement have used existing research and interviews with senior executives at NHS trusts and foundation trusts to produce resources for providers contemplating, planning or implementing a merger.
- Resources include:
- Mergers in the NHS: lessons learnt and recommendations (summary)
- A summary of the merger process from beginning to end ‒ from creating a strategic rationale to achieving cultural integration. It sets out the biggest challenges that people leading merging trusts should anticipate and gives practical advice on how to overcome them.
- Improvements NHS providers have achieved through mergers
- Describes what service improvements and savings NHS trusts and foundation trusts have achieved in the past, offering insight into what others can realistically expect to achieve through merger.
- Factors affecting the success of NHS mergers
- Key factors that can affect the delivery of improvements through merger and practical advice on how best to achieve these for patients.
- Supporting evidence:
- Mergers in the NHS: lessons learnt and recommendations
- Benefits from mergers: lessons from recent NHS transactions
- Literature review: Making mergers work: the experiences of healthcare providers in delivering merger objectives
