Benefits for Councils
High quality data is key to taking a proactive approach to population health management and targeting your council's public health initiatives effectively.
Ardens allows you to record, track and benchmark primary care data for your public health contracts, including NHS Health Checks, stop smoking services, long-acting reversible contraception and sexual health services, in one place. You can use this insight to make data-driven decisions on where to focus your efforts to make the biggest difference to the health of your population.
Improve patient access
Target areas of greatest need
Analyse reports with demographic breakdowns, including deprivation, ethnicity and Core20PLUS5 cohorts. This approach allows you to prioritise activity, identify service gaps and target interventions where they are most needed, ultimately reducing health inequalities.
Engage proactively with providers
Ardens Manager automatically populates your public health dashboard with near real-time data from primary care providers’ clinical systems. Both providers and commissioners can access these dashboards, facilitating ongoing feedback discussions and addressing any issues with service provision.
Enhance population health outcomes
Take a strategic approach to public health
With automated rather than manual processes, more time can be dedicated to data analysis rather than collection. This enables informed strategic decisions regarding public health services, leading to improved population health outcomes.
Provide standardised care
Ardens’ resources ensure that all providers and staff adhere to the same best practice guidelines, allowing your population to access high-quality public health services, regardless of where they receive care.
Boost efficiencies
Monitor activity with automatic data uploads
Automatic data uploads save time spent on manual processes and streamline public health data collection and claims.
Generate comprehensive reports
Easily communicate progress, identify trends, and inform decision-making with detailed reports and visualisations. Analyse public health contract data at practice, PCN, ICB, place and local authority levels.
End-to-end contract management
Ardens Manager enables you to oversee the entire local contract process with your primary care providers on a single platform. You can draft and review specifications, sign contracts, monitor activity, and track payments.
Manage finances
Track and manage custom payments
Our public health dashboards can be customised to include your local payments, accurately reflecting expected income for both the commissioner and providers. Data and payments correspond solely to commissioned service activity, avoiding unnecessary additional costs.
Set budgets based on accurate data
Improve forecasting and budget planning with access to near real-time data, facilitating more frequent payments (e.g. monthly) and informing decision-making on future services.
