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We can help health organisations deliver better access, improved patient experience – and ultimately better healthcare. We will help them to move away from legacy technologies, offering a better user experience so that services can be more patient-centred, and ensure that sensitive data is kept safe and secure.
Opencast has worked in the healthcare sector since we were founded in 2012, helping organisations to make the most of new technologies and improve the experience of those who use the health service. We’re building our offer to help more healthcare organisations to deliver their work.
We believe in making life better through the power of people and technology, and our values – inclusive for all and working in partnership – align closely with those of the NHS.
We're able to grow the range of services we offer by using the expertise and knowledge of new people who've joined the team with direct experience inside the NHS and other healthcare organisations.
Opencast has worked with the NHS Business Services Authority, which provides business support services to the NHS. Our teams have worked on a range of NHSBSA projects and programmes, sharing expertise in user-centred design, programme, project and agile delivery, and software development. This work has helped BSA to modernise its systems and deliver the background services that enable the NHS to function.
Our teams have worked on health-focused projects with DWP Health and DWP Digital, with projects to support employees with disabilities and long-term health conditions, and helping to build the NHS prescription charge exemption service, saving the taxpayer millions of pounds every year.
We have also worked with digital health business eConsult Health – founded by four GP partners in south London to give patients better access to GP services. Our software and product teams have worked with eConsult to grow its technology services. eConsult is now live in over 2500 NHS GP practices and 10 emergency departments across the UK, where its technology is used to triage incoming patients.
In October 2023 we began work with the GMDN Agency – working with the leading global standard for the naming, classification and categorisation of medical devices on an upgrade of its user platform and digital offering.
Opencast works in partnership with multiple government departments and can be found on official procurement lists of preferred suppliers on the following Crown Commercial Service (CCS) framework agreements. We are also on frameworks related to our healthcare work.
Agreement ID: RM6345
Opencast is a supplier on the Digital Capabilities for Health 2 (DCfH2) framework, providing digital specialists across all DDaT roles to support public health and care programmes application development and management service requirements. Key services include development operations (DevOps) services, digital definition services, build and transition services, end-to-end development services, and data management (and similar) services.
Agreement number: RM1043.8
Opencast is a supplier on Digital Outcomes 6. We provide digital specialists across all digital, data and technology (DDaT) roles, providing agile development and user-centred design services to accelerate innovation within the public sector.
Agreement number: SBS10197
Opencast is a supplier on the NHS Shared Business Services Consultancy & Advisory Services for Health framework on Lot 5 – IT Business Consultancy. The framework has been designed to meet the needs of the healthcare sector by providing healthcare, corporate, social value and sustainability, IT, HR and property consultancy services.
Agreement number: RM1557.13
Opencast is a supplier on the G-Cloud 13 framework under lot 3 (cloud support) to provide Government clients with support in setting-up and maintaining cloud software or hosting services.
Agreement number: RM3764.3
Opencast is a supplier on the Cyber Security Services 3 dynamic purchasing system (DPS) - a flexible commercial agreement that enables UK central government departments, wider public sector organisations and charities to access an extensive range of cyber security services to help improve organisational cyber resilience and security posture.
Opencast's new report on patient-centred care sets out the challenges and opportunities facing the health service. It explores how listening to the voices of patients, clinicians and other stakeholders is essential in building for the future.
Patient-centred care in the NHS sets out seven core principles that we see as essential for positive change. We know from experience that insights from users form the foundation for delivering the best solutions. These same insights are also critical to the delivery of truly patient-centred care.
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GPs and other NHS healthcare clinicians working in the NHS face huge time pressures to do their jobs effectively. A factor that makes this pressure worse is the time it takes the clinicians to write up notes from patient consultations and devise trea...
NHS England engaged Opencast to review the user experience and functionality of the NHS app – along with nine comparator apps – with the ultimate objective of driving innovation and wider adoption of the app channel.
The Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland (the ALLIANCE) is the national third sector intermediary for health and social care in Scotland. It has been looking to develop and improve its offer to its members – and understand how to scale the offer...
The non-profit GMDN Agency manages the Global Medical Device Nomenclature (GMDN) database, providing medical device information and supporting patient safety. It engaged Opencast to help it modernise its technology and improve efficiencies for its me...
eConsult is a digital health company giving patients remote access to NHS doctors. It was established by four GP partners wanting to transform the delivery of healthcare to patients through technology.
Opencast has supported DWP Digital with the development of a new online service to give employers the tools they need to empower and encourage disabled employees and those with health conditions.
Opencast has extensive experience of working across government and the public sector.
Opencast has a strong heritage in financial services, having worked across the sector since we were founded in 2012.
Working across the green energy sector gives our consultants the chance to make a tangible positive impact on the environment.
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