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Projects

We have undertaken work for pan-governmental institutions, UK government departments, regional and local government groupings, individual public sector organisations, private investor groups, charities, established companies and start-up businesses.

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We have successfully completed over 200 projects ranging from small rapid reviews, to larger, process review, change and delivery assignments in both the domestic and international markets.

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Crystal Blue collaborates with academic institutions, other consultancy groups and professional organisations both internationally and across the UK to ensure we provide our clients with the best support and most up to date research findings.

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Crystal Blue is a network-based consultancy firm led by directors Tessa and John Crilly that has been providing high quality economic and financial consultancy to public and private sector clients for over 15 years.

Health Economic Evaluation of Hospital Service Reconfiguration

Client: South West Birmingham Hospitals Trust
Lead contractor: Health Services Management Centre, Birmingham University

Description
The Trust wished to understand the overall impact of a strategic reallocation of General Surgery and Trauma and Orthopaedic services among the hospital group. We provided a before and after analysis of hospital admissions relating to these specialities. This analysis covered type of admission, HRG code, location of admission (transfer and post code), time of admission, length of stay and occupied bed days.

Services provided
Research, database creation, data analysis, workflow mapping, performance measurement.

Highlights
We were able to provide the Trust with a clear concise picture of how the workflow patterns had changed at each hospital and a number of KPIs that measured the success of the strategic reallocation.