Our aim is to make a positive difference to the lives of everyone we interact with.  We provide bespoke consultancy if you want a solution designed to meet your unique set of needs.  We provide structured programmes of support in specific areas that can be tailored to your individual needs, such as the Practical Steps programme for general practice.  We also provide publications, case studies and resources free of charge for all.

To ensure we make a positive impact upon you and your organisation, we focus our efforts in specific topic areas.  We actively choose areas that are critical to creating a new future for the NHS, but are not being supported by the system or others.  We explore the key challenges in depth.  We identify how these challenges can be successfully tackled.  We create resources such as TV programmes, podcasts, and written case studies.  We seek to influence policymakers to make the changes needed through our publications.  Our first area of focus is general practice.

We provided tailored, on-site, consultancy support for those who want our help.  We have particular expertise in general practice and CCGs.

How we work:

• We begin with the problem you have, not a ready-made solution
• We start by understanding how you are experiencing the problem, rather than assuming your experience is the same as that of others
• We use our understanding of your problem, together with our knowledge of relevant best practice, and of the NHS, to create practical actions that can make a difference for you
• We enable you and your organisation to make step change where it is needed, rather than incremental changes that will never be enough
• We connect you to people who can help by sharing their experiences with you
• We make implementation as easy as possible for you
• We actively support you with implementation

If you want to discuss how we can help you, your practice or your CCG in more detail, please contact Ben Gowland ben@ockham.healthcare

Practical Steps is our first programme.  It is a development programme available to any general practice in England.  It is designed to help your practice both tackle the problems you face today and prepare for the changes that are on the way.

The Practical Steps programme will enable your practice to identify the changes that will have the biggest impact on the problems you are experiencing and help you to successfully implement them.  It is not a theoretical exercise.  It is about taking action, about making significant change, and about creating a new future for your practice.

More information about the programme is available here . If you would like to speak to someone about the programme please contact Ben Gowland ben@ockham.healthcare

We create resources that will make a difference in the areas that we focus on.  Our resources include:

• A weekly podcast in which we get underneath best practice to make it as accessible and understand as possible to others
• White papers, TV documentaries and other new media content to highlight issues, make recommendations and influence policymakers
• Written blogs that unpick the key issues within our areas of focus

We are constantly adding to our library of free resources.  To make sure that you don’t miss out on any of these become an Ockham member, and we will send you information about new resources when we publish them.