Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, March 2018
- The Foundation Healthcare Group (FHG) is a partnership between Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS FT (Guy’s and St Thomas’) and Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust (Dartford and Gravesham) and is one of 13 acute care collaborations within NHS England’s New Care Models programme.
- The seven workstreams were:
- Vascular: To develop new models of care and support access to specialist opinion
- Paediatrics: To develop new models of care in epilepsy, streamline flow through the hospital for paediatrics and standardise pathways
- Cardiology: To reduce unwarranted variation, streamline pathways from primary to tertiary care and deliver more care locally
- Information Technology: To digitally link Guy’s and St Thomas’ and Dartford and Gravesham
- Location: To explore agile working Dartford
- Health Partnerships: To streamline service delivery contract management
- Governance: to develop a new governance model to formalise the collaboration
