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The 2023 Lichfield Proms in Beacon Park was a great success and everyone from the team who attended had a fantastic time. We are proud to have sponsored the event and we very much look forward to next year's.
Some photos from the festivities:
The In-Form Solutions team will be sponsoring and attending this year's annual Lichfield Proms in Beacon Park on Saturday 2nd September 2023.
The whole family will be welcome to this free event of classical music, picnics and fireworks which attracts around 10,000 people every year.
Warm up events start at 6.00pm, with the main concert starting at 7.30pm. We hope to see you all there!
In-Form Solutions is happy to be sponsoring the very first deckchair section at the Lichfield Proms in Beacon Park this year.
The deckchairs are adorned with the classic red, white, and blue of the Union Flag and will offer comfort and prime seating location at this fantastic annual event.
In-Form Solutions' Chairman, David Poynton has said: “We are working in Lichfield and pleased to support the local community. This is 24th year of Lichfield Proms in Beacon Park, it’s a wonderful event and Lichfield District Council’s staff are working hard to prepare. This is going to be the best proms ever.”
More information is shown in "Lichfield Live" here.
We are delighted to in July 2023 to have extended our range of categories we provide support to within this Framework. For more details see:
In-Form Solutions is delighted to have passed our annual assessment undertaken in June 2023 by the British Standard Institute (BSI) without any non conformities. This internationally recognised standard, demonstrates that we operate robust business practices and activities that minimises our impact on the environment as well as demonstrating our commitment. We are continually improving our practices and standards which was recognised by our assessor and this we will continue to do and we encourage all our stakeholders including our staff, supply chain, partners and clients to also make a positive impact. Once again, thanks to all the team who make such a positive contribution.
In-Form Solutions has initiated and held a campaign to 'Bring a plant to work week' as part of the Great Big Green Week at Lichfield District Council and the Business Hub.
Flowers were kindly donated by staff at Lichfield District Council and Business Hub including In-Form Solutions. They have been potted and placed in our outdoor seating area to bring colour and a natural environment to the space as can be seen in the pictures below. In-Form Solutions have agreed to maintain the garden.
We will continue to conduct projects and activities which enhance our local environment as part of our commitment to environmental sustainability.
At the start of the year, we announced that we are part of a local initiative supporting Lichfield District Council to improve the waterways at Beacon Park in our home City of Lichfield. This is part of our hands on commitment to environmental management and sustainability.
We are very happy to present the progress that has since been made. A coir roll has been successfully installed in the main pool as can be seen in the pictures below. These are an effective erosion and water-quality control and will provide an immediate benefit to the wildlife habitat. After visiting the site this weekend (24/06/2023), we have noticed a significant and tangible benefit to the cleanliness of the water. You can now see the bottom of the stream which will support and encourage more wildlife for which the community can enjoy. Most importantly, the project will help to prevent flooding within the park.
In-Form Solutions will continue to support this project and we will provide further updates on the progress being made.
For further information see Conservation project will help prevent flooding and cleanse pool and stream in Beacon Park (lichfielddc.gov.uk)
Once again, In-Form Solutions Ltd are delighted to have been awarded accreditation to the North of England Commercial Procurement Collaborative Framework (NOE CPC) in the following Lots:
We are now part of the "Play It Green" initiative. This demonstrates our commitment to environmental sustainability and net-zero through methods such as planting trees and reducing our own carbon footprint. This is in addition to our support of a local conservation project, details of which can be found here.
As a member of "Play It Green", our subscription will be used to plant trees through the Eden Reforestation Project as well as a small portion of the funds being allocated to a good cause. For this, we have chosen to support Winston's Wish, a child bereavement charity.
We are proud to be a part of this great initiative.
We treat the management of sensitive data very seriously and once again we are pleased that we over achieve the standards set by NHS Digital Data Security & Protection Toolkit renewed today 23rd March 2023.
We are delighted to announce that In-Form Solutions have now become a signatory to the Prompt Payment Code.
We are committed to paying our partners and suppliers in a swift and timely manner in accordance to our agreed payment terms. This is not only ethically responsible, but is also economically beneficial for all parties involved including In-Form Solutions. Before signing up to this code, we have always paid our suppliers promptly. We are proud to be paying everyone well within the 30 day period (2022 average less than 10 days) as targeted by this code, so this Prompt Payment Code just formalises our internal code which we have adopted since our formation.
After two consecutive years, we are once again delighted to have successfully renewed our Cyber Essentials Plus accreditation for 2023.
Cyber Essentials Plus involves an external audit of our systems by a highly trained assessor. The aim of the assessment is to confirm that all controls that have been declared in Cyber Essentials are implemented on our network. By undertaking and completing Cyber Essentials Plus, we are assuring that the baseline security standards set out by Cyber Essentials are being met. Cyber Essentials is a self certificate assessment, whereas Cyber Essentials Plus is an audited process, giving more assurance to ourselves and our partners.
We are proud to be part of a local initiative to to conserve and improve the pool and stream at Beacon Park. The project will help to prevent flooding, improve water quality and boost the natural habitat for local wildlife. As part of our commitment to environmental management, we have pledged a financial sum as well as our hands-on support to the project which has already begun and will continue over the spring. Being based in Lichfield, we thought it appropriate to focus our efforts on our local park frequented by many of our colleagues and friends.
To find out more, see this article from the Lichfield District Council.
We are once again delighted to have successfully renewed our Cyber Essentials accreditation for 2023.
We hope that you all have a fabulous Christmas and a prosperous new year.
To advise you all of the Christmas opening and closing times:
The last few years have been extremely challenging for us all, responding to the effects of Brexit, the pandemic, the uncertainty surrounding our government, the war in Ukraine and now the public sector employment disputes. These all affect our supply chains, staff recruitment and retention, strategy, and general shortage of resources. Despite all these, we have all reacted positively.
We have all had to quickly adapt and respond to the needs of the new world, including new social relationships, communication tools, remote working, new ways of delivering care and support.
We have strengthened our communication tools and infrastructure to support secure remote working. We were able to do this securely as we had implemented robust systems and resources which are accredited by NHS Digital Data Security & Protection Toolkit, Cyber Essential Plus and ISO9001 (Quality Management). As well as supporting our valued NHS, we are again supporting overseas clients in Ireland, Gibraltar and the Channel Islands on many exciting projects including the Jersey Radiotherapy Feasibility Study which attracted so much media attention due to its sensitivity.
We have now moved our offices to a much more modern setting that is appropriate for flexible working but is again robust and secure. We have partnered with our District Council to be part of their Community Hub and provide each other on site support through our dedicated office.
As well as ensuring we are physically robust within our infrastructure and team, this year we have strengthened our social responsibility. I am delighted that our ISO14001 (Environmental Management) application through the British Standard Institute (BSI) was successful. Again, a lot of hard work was invested by our team to gain this accreditation and we did this again at the first time of asking with no non conformities during the whole application.
What has impressed me about our team is that we are not just looking inwardly at our own internal processes, but we are supporting our community to improve our environment. For example, we are jointly working with Lichfield District Council clearing up the water supply of the stream that runs through our local park and the city itself so as to cleanse the pools and improve the water supply for the wildlife and community. Our team individually sit as Trustees to many local charities and clubs and provide their free time to our community. Corporately, we have this year also supported a number of events such as the Proms in the Park which provides a free concert to the community.
Our team continues to grow, and we are supporting a number of new clients which include local authorities, charities as well as the NHS. I am really proud of our team who have make such a positive impact on the lives of so many individuals. They really have made a big difference to so many.
I would like to thank all our team and indeed our clients for supporting us again so positively. We look forward to the many challenges in the future with great enthusiasm and commitment. So, lets’ together look positively as we stride into 2023 with equalled passion, empathy, integrity, determination, professionalism but also with a mind on our social responsibility.
We hope you all have a lovely Christmas break and I hope that 2023 is a happy, healthy and successful year for you, your family, colleagues and friends.
David Poynton
Chairman of In-Form Solutions
In-Form Solutions are delighted that we have been appointed to provide HR Support to the Robert Jones & Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust. Peta Poynton is leading this assignment from December 2022 and will be completed during the New Year.
Once again, we are delighted to have passed our ISO9001-2015 external annual assessment undertaken by BSI with no nonconformities. We are so proud of our achievements, but this is only able to happen through the teams hard work and determination to improve year on year.
We are proud to announce that In-Form Solutions has achieved certification to the British Standard Insitute (BSI) Environmental Management Standard ISO 14001:2015.
ISO 14001:2015 demonstrates our commitment to helping reduce our impact on the environment. By implementing an Environmental Management System, we have already shown how, as a company, we can make a direct positive impact by improving the environment and reducing waste.
The motivation to be a ‘green’ business is becoming more compelling, as we recognise our commitment and corporate responsibility to the environment directly and by working with stakeholders including our supply chain, clients and our community.
We have started on our environmental improvements by combining our management systems with our already established and certified BSI Quality Management System to ISO 9001:2015. This combined system is managed efficiently by digitalisation through our secure infrastructure.
We are now also actively investing our time and money by working with our local authority Lichfield District Council to improve the water quality within the pools and water courses in the local parks to ensure wildlife as well as the local community have a clean and safe environment in which to enjoy and live. This is just one of the initiatives we have undertaken. We very much encourage our team to actively support our local community by participating and contributing to many worthwhile voluntary causes, charities, and organisations.
If you would like any information on our Environmental Policy, then please do not hesitate to get in touch.
Once again, our Managing Director has been elected as Chair of Citizens Advice South East Staffordshire (CASES) where he provides voluntary support as a Trustee. CASES is a registered charity, providing free, independent and confidential advice to residents of Burntwood, Lichfield and Tamworth and John has been Trustee for around 7 years, 3 as Chair.
We are delighted to be supporting Sandwell Leisure Trust a registered charity with the project management of the transition of leisure services. The team is led by Ian French, supported by Ben Griffiths and we are supporting the transition of this service to the local authority throughout 2023.
In-Form Solutions is again delighted to be supporting Diabetes UK with providing senior executive and mentoring to this registered charity. Penny Venables is leading this role at this high profile Charity.
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Our contracting and commissioning team at In-Form Solutions are delighted to be supporting Cheshire & Wirral Partnership NHS Trust with their contracting arrangements throughout 2021, 2022 and now 2023. We are supporting the team to facilitate and support their contracting arrangements with commissioning organisations as well as key health care suppliers.
After successfully completing a number of Business Cases, the In-Form Solutions team are delighted to be supporting the ICB plan and implement 3 Digital Projects within Primary Care to modernise services throughout 2022 and 2023. These projects include Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Clinical Support Information (CSI) and the development of Smart Templates and Self-Referral processes. Our team are successfully project managing and supporting with the implementation of each of these schemes.
In-Form Solutions are pleased for the 3rd consecutive year to be supporting the Be-Inspired Mentoring Programme for up and coming executives in their new business start ups. For the past two years, we have had the honour of supporting 2 mentees each year, but this year in the final year of the EU funded programme, In-Form are supporting 3. We are immensely proud that in each in the past two years we have supported a prize winner with all now having established new businesses. We very much look forward to welcoming our new mentees and supporting them throughout the year.
Once again, we are delighted and proud to have been accredited Cyber Essentials Plus for 2022.
We are delighted to announce that after our annual external assessment in November 2021 conducted by BSI, that we have been reissued with another certificate to 2025. The assessment reported no nonconformities and no recommendations for any improvement. This assessment scrutinised all our processes, projects and team in detail, so this gives ourselves and all our stakeholders the assurance that we continue to provide a high quality and effective services to all our clients and that we have robust systems in place. We had another annual assessment completed in November 2022 and again with no non conformities.
Our team have successfully completed the Community Equipment Review for both Liverpool CCG and Liverpool City Council. This review is looking to ensure that the service enhances its services at this challenging time of increased demand. The review identified the likely demand for the service, costed its services and identified various models for the provision of this vital service and to develop some new innovative services to care for more people at home.
In-Form Solutions are delighted to be working in collaboration with Midland and Lancashire CSU to support the proposed service reconfiguration which entails some detailed service costing and financial modelling.
Our team are delighted to be undertaking a number of business cases with our partners at Adaptive of mental health services at St Vincent's Hospital in Dublin. This team is led by John Griffiths and Charles Harris.
In-Form Solutions are delighted to be supporting a leading trust in the East Midlands, Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Trust with the preparation of a number of business cases. We have a specialist multi disciplinary team supporting the Trust with this programme.
In-Form Solutions are delighted to support Midland & Lancashire CSU in providing a series of financial reviews for the CSU during 2022 and 2023.
In-Form Solutions is delighted to have been appointed to the Health Systems Support Framework by NHS England. Our successful application was made as “The In-Form Solutions Alliance”, which represents the following organisations in addition to In-Form Solutions: Economics by Design, Rethink Partners, Oxford Centre for Triple Value Healthcare, Tricordant and Datchet Consulting.
The Health Systems Support (HSS) Framework provides a quick and easy route for health and care organisations to access support services from innovative third party suppliers at the leading edge of health and care system reform. It can be used by any NHS organisation, including NHS Trusts, Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs), arm’s-length bodies, local authorities and a wide range of public sector bodies where they are supporting Integrated Care Systems (ICS), Sustainability and Transformation Partnerships (STPs), or health and social care in general.
The award recognises the real and significant experience that our combined team has of consistently delivering positive and successful outcomes in challenging times and circumstances, specifically within the following “Transformation and change” service lines:
As the In-Form Solutions Alliance we seek to improve outcomes by providing support in a number of distinct ways: Financial, Commissioning, Procurement, Service redesign, Risk management, Strategic, and Organisational effectiveness. We look forward to opportunities to use our skills and experiences to assist organisations through the Health Systems Support Framework and to support the move to integrated models of care based on intelligence-led population health management.
Once again, In-Form Solutions is supporting two business entrepreneurs in setting up and establishing their business and In-Form Solutions is supporting two new business start ups as part of EU's "Be Inspired" programme managed by Staffordshire University. We successfully supported two business's last year who are now thriving due to their magnificent efforts one of which became a prize winner.
This year, we received a high number of applicants and we chose to focus on two. We have now started this years programme and we have already received really positive feedback as both set up new businesses in a highly challenging environment. We at In-Form Solutions are delighted and proud to be supporting these new budding entrepreneurs as well as the two that finished last years programme.
In-Form Solutions was delighted to be supporting the successful merger of Birmingham St Mary's and John Taylor Hospice Merger which was led by our Penny Venables. We engaged with all stakeholders including Birmingham CCG to ensure that the merger was completed successfully on schedule.
In-Form Solutions are delighted to be supporting NHS Improvement with their clinical leadership and stewardship programme.
We are delighted to have been accredited to the CCS - Low Purchase Value System framework. This provides clients with another procurement route for both small and large projects.
We have today had our NHS Digital Data Security & Protection Toolkit published (17/02/21) and we are delighted that we have this year "Exceeded the standards met". This again demonstrates our commitment to quality and protecting data securely.
We are delighted to be supporting with the development of COVID Virtual Wards and developing new management reports for an ICS. The system continues to be successful in order that more patients can be treated at home during this pandemic. A lot of lessons can be leant to remotely care for patients for a lot of other conditions.
We are delighted to announce that Penny Venables has joined our team and is already busy working on a number of strategic assignments in the Midlands.
Penny is a highly experienced NHS chief executive with over 20 years board experience in a number of NHS and not for profit organisations. Penny is joining us as a Senior Consultant & Advisor.
John Griffiths says "I have had the pleasure of knowing and working with Penny for the last fifteen years or so and I am really looking forward to further developing our relationship in order to extend our portfolio of skills and experience to our clients. There is no doubt, our team will also learn from Penny's vast experience of NHS management in a number of high profile organisations and we are delighted that she has joined the team".
In-Form Solutions are once again delighted to announce that we have been accepted as an approved Digital Outcome Specialists (DOS5) Supplier on the UK Government’s Digital Marketplace.
This follows our DOS3 and DOS4 accreditations and our new and fresh application has once again been successful.
We are delighted to announce that we have been accredited with Cyber Essential Plus, the highest level of certification offered under the Cyber Essentials scheme. The accreditation means that In-Form Solutions’ clients and partners can be assured that our cyber security systems have passed rigorous testing by independent assessors. The accreditation means that all of our clients can have even greater confidence in their ability to reduce risk when they work with In-Form Solutions. Cyber Essentials Plus is a Government-backed accreditation representing the industry standard best practice in cyber security.
Please see the link to our certificate here.
Once again, we are delighted to have passed the British Standard Institute (BSI) external audit with no nonconformities and no recommendations for improvement. This provides further assurance to our clients and partners that In-Form Solutions have robust governance in place, are fully transparent and above all provide excellent outcomes. As part of this audit, everything has to be evidenced and reviewed independently, so this along with our accreditation to 12 Government Frameworks shows our commitment to providing excellent quality outcomes. This is where quality counts. We don't just say it - we do it.
It is with great sadness that Mike Burns has regrettably passed away and left us this past week. Mike has over a significant number of years contributed so much to the NHS, particularly in finance within the West Midlands where he was a highly valued member, including a team led by our Chairman David Poynton. Despite suffering from ill health in recent years, Mike has been a valued member of the In-Form Solutions team but was also a Trustee at South East Staffordshire Citizens Advise where our John Griffiths is Chair. Mike provided much wisdom, professional support and at times great humour and will be sadly missed by us all. We are all thinking of him and his family at this very sad time.
We are delighted to be accredited to the G Cloud 12 Framework, a framework focussed at providing cloud solutions to government. We are proud to have been accredited to this framework for the past 4 years as we are committed to improving services and outcomes to public services.
We are delighted to support the NHS SBS Framework rebranding as we are an approved supplier within the following Lots:
For more information see here
After some time working through our secure remote working network, we are delighted to be returning back to our office and continuing to support our clients with their recovery drive of capacity management, remote and self care, procurement and contracting, finance, new ways of delivery, HR and estate management.
We are delighted to be once again an accredited mentor to the European Commission funded "Be Inspired" mentoring programme for new business entrepreneurs starting out in business managed by Staffordshire University. We are delighted to be supporting two businesses as part of this programme in 2020, the feedback after the first session being "Thanks so much for our meeting today. I have already learnt so much!" We very much look forward to supporting and helping business grow and prosper in this highly challenging world.
It's the NHS 72nd Birthday today on the 5th July, and we're taking the chance to say thank you to everyone who has helped the NHS respond to COVID-19, to all those working in the NHS, all key workers both inside and outside the NHS and of course the general public. Congratulations on a huge achievement and a big thank you!!!!
We are delighted, that once again, we have been commissioned by the Government of Jersey to refresh the Person Led Information Costing systems (PLICS) and to further develop this system across a number of government departments. Steve Kelly is once again leading this assignment, which due to limited travel restrictions as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, along with good information and governance systems, this assignment is being largely undertaken in the UK.
Despite the challenges of the pandemic, we have been busy supporting the NHS and business to address and resolve their needs. Find out more in our June Newsletter.
We are pleased that our Cyber Essentials accrediation has been renewed to April 2021. Please see the link to our certificate here
The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is causing confusion and uncertainty across the globe. Businesses are attempting to deal with the outbreak by following World Health Organization (WHO) guidance on how to protect workers while continuing to operate normally and service customers.
At In-Form Solutions, we have imposed, through our secure IT network, which complies to NHS Data Security and Protection (DSP), a work-from-home policy to limit the potential spread of infection and we are following all Governemnt Guidance. While we implement our business continuity processes, we want to assure you that we are operating as normal. You will continue to receive the exemplary levels of service that you come to expect from us, and we will be leveraging all the technologies and resources at our disposal to engage and support you and your communities. Indeed, we are supporting a number of health care clients to plan and review the impact of COVID-19 including The Welsh Office, The Governments of Jersey & Gibraltar and several NHS organisations.
We will be monitoring the situation regularly and updating www.in-formsolutions.com with any new information.
Our commitment to you during this situation remains as strong as ever. Thank you for your business and support and most importantly, stay safe.
Our team had a really constructive and good away day in London where we discussed the changing needs of the public sector, governance together with some internal training with a few beers thereafter. Thanks everyone for coming!
We hope you like our February 2020 Newsletter which tells you what we've been up to.
We are delighted that our team is currently supporting the STP with developing their long term financial plan. Both Nick Gerrard and Loretta Outwaite are supporting the team.
We are once again delighted to be supporting the Isle of Wight NHS Trust in developing their Full Business Case for the development of their five year strategic plan. Rob Kirton together with Helen Blanchard of 4OC are undertaking this high profile and important assignment which already has achieved NHSI approval.
In-Form Solutions is delighted to be supporting Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust with operational and financial planning and support. Nick Gerrard is leading this project.
We are excited to announce that Nigel Hopps will be supporting the North of England Commissioning Support Unit with their Digital Maturity Project.
We are delighted that we have successfully passed the external BSI annual audit of our ISO9001:2015 Quality Management certification with no non conformities. This is as a result of continued investment within our infrastructure, processes, procedures and of course our performance to clients. As part of their assessment, BSI assess the outcomes of our work which has to be evidenced. This provides additional assurance to all our team, suppliers and clients, demonstrating our dedication and conformance to providing a high quality service.
Congratulations and thanks to all our team, all providing high levels of commitment to producing excellent outcomes to our clients and their communities.
We just don’t say it, we do it.
We are delighted to be supporting Derby and Derbyshire CCG with the planning and implementation of their Continuing Health Care (CHC) programme.
We are delighted that today we have once again been approved as "preferred supplier" status for the Government of Gibraltar. This renewal provides continual additional confidence from clients outside the UK.
In-Form Solutions are delighted to announce that we have been accepted as an approved Digital Outcome Specialists (DOS4) Supplier on the UK Government’s Digital Marketplace.
This follows our DOS3 accrediation and our new application has once again been successful.
Congratulations to all our friends and colleagues in Gibraltar celebrating Gibraltar National Day.
In-Form Solutions is delighted to be supporting CSH Surrey by providing strategic HR advise and support. Peta Poynton is leading this project from September 2019.
We are delighted to announce that In-Form Solutions has retained it's listing on the G-Cloud framework.
Previously listed on both G-Cloud 9 and then 10, In-Form Solutions has now been successfully accepted on the UK Government’s Crown Commercial Service's latest procurement framework, G-Cloud 11.
G-Cloud 11 is part of the UK government's Information and Communication Technology (ICT) strategy, to help the digital transformation of public services by providing a market place to source and purchase cloud-based technologies.
About The Crown Commercial Service
The Crown Commercial Service (CCS) has brought together Government’s central commercial capability into a single organisation, amalgamating Government Procurement Service with other commercial teams from the Cabinet Office and central government departments.
CCS is an executive agency of the Cabinet Office and operates as a trading fund under the Government Trading Funds Act 1973. Their remit is to work with both departments and organisations across the whole of the public sector to ensure maximum value is extracted from every commercial relationship and improve the quality of service delivery.
The CCS goal is to become the “go-to” place for expert commercial and procurement services.
With both service delivery and advisory capability, services include contract management and supplier performance management to ensure that the Government acts as a true, single customer; freeing up individual organisations to focus their procurement expertise on what is unique to them.
Our John Griffiths is delighted and honoured to be once again supporting St Helens CCG with developing their transformation of community services.
John says " I am absolutely thrilled to be working with such a wonderful and positive team at St Helens and to further develop an integrated service with some innovative community partners. It also demonstrates, that our key clients continue to have confidence in us to deliver such important programmes and it is an honour to be of help".
We are delighted to continue to support Gibraltar Health Authority with their Commissioning arrangements for specialist health services, but our team is also supporting the finance function develop their operational plan and develop an integrated costing system. Our team is continually working both in the UK and Gibraltar in undertaking these important roles.
In-Form Solutions is delighted to be supporting Isle of Wight NHS Trust with operational planning and support. Nick Gerrard is leading this project.
We are delighted that Loretta has been appointed interim Chief Executive of the Institute of Healthcare Management (IHM) for the next 3 months from March.
The IHM is the leading independent membership organisation for health and social care managers, supporting personal development and driving change to improve health and well-being for all through quality management and is a professional organisation for health care managers.
We wish Loretta our very best wishes and support in undertaking this very exciting role which will help to support the NHS and all stakeholders through a period of transformation and modernisation.
We are delighted that today we have been approved as "preferred supplier" status for the Government of Gibraltar. This provides additional confidence from clients outside the UK.
We are proud to announce that in February 2019, we have been awarded ISO 9001:2015 certification at the first time of asking. This is an internationally recognised quality standard which enables our services to adhere to a comprehensive set of quality values including a clear customer focus, the motivation of top management as well as the process approach of our back office systems, infrastructure and delivery of service.
Our certification demonstrates our commitment to delivering a consistently, high quality service to our clients, staff, suppliers and partners. In order to achieve this, In-Form Solutions underwent an evaluation process for almost a year which involved developing our quality management systems, expanding our lines of communication and advancing our organisation structure and processes which was then externally assessed and audited at our offices by the British Standards Institute BSI. All our Directors, employees, some clients and suppliers have also been involved and are all fully engaged in this process.
We have demonstrated to a series of external bodies that we continually deliver positive outcomes over a number of years in a wide range of disciplines and markets.
We hope that by complying to this standard, we are demonstrating our commitment to quality and we strive to develop this further going forward.
We are excited to launch a successful quality management service where we create systems to meet the requirements of ISO:9001-2015 and / or ISO:14001-2015. For more information, see our Quality Management page.
NHS England's Long Term Plan is out now (7th January 2019).
Further details can be found at NHS England website.
In-Form Solutions is delighted to be supporting the North Yorkshire collaborative of CCG's headed up by the Vale of York CCG with the development of their workforce strategy. Peta Poynton is leading this assignment.
NHS Shared Business Services has produced the following leaflet promoting the benefits of the Framework and In-Form Solutions. We have undertaken a number of projects through this Framework all being highly successful.
Congratulations to our very own Jill Griffiths who was double awarded, silver for "colleague of the year award" and gold for "Research and Development" category at Good Hope Hospital for setting up and running the Infant Hip Ultrasound and Screening Service. This is currently the only physiotherapy led one-stop shop service in the country.
For more information about this innovative Infant Hip Ultrasound and Screening Service, contact Jill at jill.griffiths@in-formsolutions.com
In-Form Solutions were delighted to support and sponsor a recent Charity Golf day at The Forest of Arden Golf Club in Warwickshire. The event was hugely successful and raised nearly £20,000 for both Help Harry Help Others and Mary Anne Evans Hospice and the proceeds were evenly shared. Not only did the event raise much needed funds, but it was a great day out for everyone including our Chair David Poynton and Peta Hayward.
In-Form Solutions is delighted to be exhibiting at the Inter Island Public Health Forum in Gibraltar where it is celebrating its 25th year. This conference was attended by clinicians and service managers from islands from different parts of the world. As well as attending and exhibiting, John Griffiths presented his experience of Island Health Commissioning.
For further information, contact John at john.griffiths@in-formsolutions.com
We would like to welcome Dawn Bond to our expanding team. Dawn joins us as Business Manager and Data Protection Officer for the company. Dawn has a wealth of financial management, Business Processes and GDPR experience.
Dawn's e-mail address is dawn.bond@in-formsolutions.com or dawn.bond1@nhs.net.
In-Form Solutions are delighted to announce that we have been accepted as an approved Digital Outcome Specialists (DOS3) Supplier on the UK Government’s Digital Marketplace.
In-Form Solutions are delighted to have been engaged by Sussex & East Surrey STP to support their Urgent Care programme. This project led by Nick Gerrard and Rob Kirton is supported by a multi disciplinary team of specialists including health commissioners, General Practitioners, an A&E Clinical Consultant and senior nursing specialists. For further information, contact Nick Gerrard at nick.gerrard@in-formsolutions.com
We are delighted that we are supporting Medway Foundation NHS Trust with their finance strategy. This is a really important piece of work for the Trust and we are very privileged to have the opportunity to work with the Trust. This assignment commences in September.
We are delighted and extremely proud to have been awarded accreditation to the UK Governments RM6008 Management Consultancy 2 (MCF2) four year Framework for Lot 1 a provider of Business Consultancy Services. This framework covers all UK Central Government Departments including the Cabinet Office, Departments of Education, Transport, International Development, Health & Social Care, Foreign & Commonwealth Office, HM Treasury as well as local authorities, the NHS and other government departments in England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales.
The link to our profile is https://ccs-agreements.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/suppliers/form-solutions-ltd
This accreditation is a result of our hard work, commitment and positive outcomes we have provided to our clients over a number of years in which we are very proud.
In-Form Solutions are delighted to have been accredited to the North of England Commercial Procurement Collaborative as an approved supplier for providing management consultancy services. This is a 4 year agreement from 2018. Only 6 suppliers are approved for each Lot and we are delighted to be one of those approved suppliers. This framework is open to the NHS and clients are able to direct award contracts under this framework which minimises the procurement process for clients. We are only one of six suppliers approved in the following Lots
We are delighted to once again work with Midland & Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit (CSU) and Mersey Internal Audit (MIA) to undertake a number of NHS England QIPP (Quality, Innovation, Productivity and Prevention) Reviews throughout England. These reviews involve our team in supporting individual CCG's develop specific QIPP schemes and initiatives and to work with the CSU and MIA to implement this exciting and tremendously successful initiative. John Griffiths is leading this programme supported by our team.
This August, In-Form Solutions are delighted to have been awarded a three-year Framework for the provision of Commercial Advice to the NHS Wales Informatics Service.
Andrew Hartshorn, our commercial lead for this work, stated “Suppliers continue to play a crucial role in supporting public services but this has to always demonstrate clear value for money. This Framework represents a tremendous opportunity for us to work with the NHS in Wales, and potentially other public sector bodies, to secure best value deals without compromising service quality or contractual resilience.”
We are delighted this August to have been awarded another accreditation for South, Central & West CSU Dynamic Purchasing System for Digital Transformation. This is in addition to our System Transformation accreditation which we were awarded earlier in the year. Thanks again to the team for putting together another successful bid and provides more assurance of our innovative digital services.
Our Directors John & Jill Griffiths were delighted to attend Handsworth’s RFU Summer Ball in which In-Form Solutions sponsored. Not only was this a very enjoyable evening, but the event raised significant funds to aid the development of the new junior sides in the new season.
In-Form Solutions have been successfully accredited to the NHS Shared Business Services Framework (SBS) for Multidisciplinary Consultancy Services as an approved supplier. This is a four year Framework commencing 1st July 2018 to 30th June 2022. This framework is a fully OJEU compliant route to market for the provision of multidisciplinary consultancy services; covering a wide range of specialisms and In-Form Solutions are accredited to the following Lots:
The objective of this framework agreement is to implement a contractual vehicle to facilitate the procurement of quality and value for money for Multidisciplinary Consultancy Services, encompassing a range of professional services covering the whole of the UK.
The SBS framework provides the ability to directly award a contract to approved suppliers on the framework providing a timely and compliant route to market, reducing the need for costly and lengthy local procurement and tendering processes.
In-Form Solutions were successful in all Lots which they applied for, scoring the top 2 scores of all applicants for all Lots and top in four of these Lots. These evaluations were very much focused on quality of service as opposed to price, which just emphasises that in-Form Solutions deliver a highly effective and innovative service.
Previously listed on G-Cloud 9, In-Form Solutions has now been successfully accepted on the UK Government’s Crown Commercial Service's latest procurement framework, G-Cloud 10.
G-Cloud 10 is part of the UK government's Information and Communication Technology (ICT) strategy, to help the digital transformation of public services by providing a market place to source and purchase cloud-based technologies.
About The Crown Commercial Service
The Crown Commercial Service (CCS) has brought together Government’s central commercial capability into a single organisation, amalgamating Government Procurement Service with other commercial teams from the Cabinet Office and central government departments.
CCS is an executive agency of the Cabinet Office and operates as a trading fund under the Government Trading Funds Act 1973. Their remit is to work with both departments and organisations across the whole of the public sector to ensure maximum value is extracted from every commercial relationship and improve the quality of service delivery.
The CCS goal is to become the “go-to” place for expert commercial and procurement services.
With both service delivery and advisory capability, services include contract management and supplier performance management to ensure that the Government acts as a true, single customer; freeing up individual organisations to focus their procurement expertise on what is unique to them.
In-Form Solutions are once again delighted to have been appointed to support States of Jersey Health & Social Services to update their costing systems and cost calculations after we successfully installed this system last year. This will both enhance and develop the system in order that year on year comparisons and benchmarking can be undertaken.
Steve Kelly is our lead consultant on this project and he can be contacted at steve.kelly@in-formsolutions.com
We are pleased to launch a bid management and support service where we are able to plan, assess, co- ordinate, write, submit and evaluate public, private and third sector contract opportunities. For more information see our Bid Management and Support page.
Delighted that once again we have passed with flying colours and retained our Cyber Essentials Accreditation. See our certificate.
In-Form Solutions are now an accredited supplier to the South, Central and West Commissioning Support Unit, Dynamic Purchasing System for System Transformation.
The South Central and West CSU Dynamic Purchasing System can speed up the procurement of commonly sourced goods and services such as management consultancy and we are now one of their accredited suppliers. Further information can be found at:
https://www.scwcsu.nhs.uk/services/procurement/#heading-dynamic-purchasing-system
This gives our clients another source to engage and procure the services of In-Form Solutions as well as providing further assurance to all our clients. See our Framework Accreditation.
The In-Form Solutions team are delighted to be supporting South Cheshire CCG and Vale Royal CCG with their QIPP programme.
We are delighted our team to be supporting Midland & Lancashire CSU with their procurement and marketing strategy, led by John Griffiths.
We are delighted to be supporting East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust with their financial planning and development. Nick Gerrard will be leading this exciting project from November.
We are delighted to welcome Nick Gerrard to the In-Form Solutions team, where he will be valuable to both our clients and our team. Nick has over 20 years Board Executive experience as an NHS Finance Director for a number of NHS Trusts including those in acute, community and mental health services. He has considerable experience of financial turnaround, recovery, governance, procurement, IM&T and performance management.
David Poynton our Chairman says "Nick provides our team with the additional financial experience in order to further enhance our products and services and we are now becoming a leading niche supplier of specialist expertise to the NHS and beyond. We have a dynamic multi-disciplinary team, which covers a wide spectrum of management expertise which is enhancing our reputation and offering. We very much welcome Nick to the team."
We are delighted to be accredited as a supplier of the Bloom Framework Agreement.
To be accredited to Bloom, In-Form had to go through a comprehensive evaluation whereupon case studies were provided, which were then validated by Bloom with the respective client. We were pleased to submit 14 case studies.
John has just returned from another successful trip to Gibraltar and also enjoyed the fine weather in October!
In-Form Solutions are pleased to announce that today we have been further accredited within the Nepro Framework Agreement for the following categories, Re-engineering and Processes, Service Transformation, Effective Change Management and Structured Change.
This is an addition to our existing category accreditations of Budgetary Management, Business Planning, Commissioning, VFM and Performance Management.
We very much look forward to working with Nepro on these exciting new ventures.
In-Form are once again delighted to be supporting a series of QIPP reviews in a number of CCG's in the North West in England. Our teams are closely working with the CCG's and MIAA with planning, developing and implementing new innovative QIPP schemes.
Beautiful Information are delighted to announce our enhanced partnership arrangements with In-Form Solutions In-Form are a provider of effective management solutions to both community and business organisations and have decades of experience in supporting NHS organisations to improve their ways of working.
John Griffiths, MD of In-Form said “After supporting the team with developing this extremely exciting new suite of products, In-Form Solutions is delighted to further develop these with the NHS and beyond with a view of achieving improved outcomes efficiency and information, beautifully”.
Marc Farr, Founder of Beautiful Information said “we are excited to build upon the relationship we have with In-Form. As a company that is well respected and with many contacts and relationships in the NHS, we hope this enhanced partnership with In-Form will enable our solutions and services to be introduced into many more NHS organisations to the mutual benefit of both In-Form, Beautiful Information and ultimately, the NHS”
We are delighted and proud to be supporting NHS Wales Informatics Service. Good luck to Andrew and the team on this new exciting assignment!
In-Form Solutions are delighted to have been accredited to the UK Governments G-Cloud 9 framework agreement.
G-Cloud offers a digital marketplace, open to all in the UK public sector. It promotes a list of pre-approved suppliers which enables us all to remove the lengthy costs associated with traditional procurement.
In-Form Solutions are delighted to be approved as accredited suppliers to NEPRO Framework Agreement.
To be accredited to Nepro, In-Form had to go through a comprehensive evaluation where upon case studies had to be obtained and validated by Nepro. In-Form have been approved in the following Lot categories these being, Budgetary Management, VFM, Commissioning, Business Planning and Performance Management.
In-Form are delighted to have been awarded the Cyber Essentials Accreditation.
The Cyber Essentials scheme is a world-leading assurance mechanism which demonstrates to our partners and stakeholders that the most important basic cyber security controls have been implemented.
In 2012 the UK government launched the scheme which encouraged organisations to consider whether they were managing their cyber risks. The government emphasised the need for company boards and senior executives to take ownership of these risks and enshrine them within their overall corporate risk management regime.
These initiatives continued to gain traction. However, government analysis of continuing attacks and feedback from industry vulnerability testers identified that a number of security controls were not being applied, leaving organisations vulnerable to threat actors with low levels of technical capability.
The government viewed the adoption of an organisational standard for cyber security as the next stage after the ‘10 Steps to Cyber Security’ guidance. This was in order to allow organisations, and their customers and partners, to have greater confidence in their ability to reduce the risk posed by threat actors with low technical capability.
In order to be accredited our IT systems and procedures have demonstrated and proven that we have taken the precautions necessary to reduce cyber risks. As part of this process, In-Form Solutions has five key controls in place, these being;
Secure Configuration
Firewalls
Access Control
Patch Management
Malware Software
Cyber Essentials is a scheme which is supported by industry and backed by the Government. It’s designed to help organisations to protect themselves from many commonly-seen online threats to security and to make conducting business over the internet safer within the UK.
In-Form Solutions are proud to be again members of the Greater Birmingham and the Lichfield and Tamworth Chambers of Commerce in 2018/19.
Nicole ran her first ever long distance run in May for Cancer Research. After all of Nicole’s hard work and training Nicole managed to complete the run in 30 minutes raising over £300! Thank you everyone for your support and kind donations. Well done Nicole !!!!
Jill Griffiths ran her very first Marathon by completing the Manchester Marathon in just over 4 hours 40 minutes, which is a fantastic achievement particularly as she was carrying an injury which may have ruled her out. Because of this injury and the uncertainty whether she would run she is raising money for Crohn's & Colitus UK after the event, so any donations would be hugely welcomed. Thank you all for your support and again well done Jill.
We had a wonderful day at the Good Hope Hospital Summer Fete. Thank you to the following who have supported the event: - Lamborghini / Bentley Birmingham - Birchfield Harriers - The UK Sepsis Trust - The Whey's.
As part of their commitment to their local communities, In-form Solutions believe it is important to encourage healthy and active lifestyles. This photo is of the successful Harrogate Golf Club 1st team who won both the Harrogate Union 1st Team league but also the scratch league. In-form Solutions Chairman, David Poynton, is pictured with the team.
In-Form Solutions are proud sponsors of local blues rock band 5-piece, The Whey's.
The Birmingham based 5 piece offer a blues rock experience, with main influences coming from artists such as Jimi Hendrix, Two door cinema club, the Rolling Stones and Franz Ferdinand.
After a successful Halloween Charity gig in Birmingham, the helped to raise over £2,000. The Whey's are looking for new venues to play across the Midlands.
The Whey's played to a sold out hall at a South African themed Charity event in Birmingham.
John Griffiths, Managing Director of In-Form Solutions was Team Manager of Birchfield Harriers Boys Team - a successful group of talented athletes.
Birchfield Harriers is the UK’s premier athletics club and has been represented at every summer Olympics bar one since 1908.
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