Service Areas

Strategic Consulting in Healthcare Access

In a rapidly changing global environment, there are increasing challenges for the healthcare industry with more technical, regulatory and commercial hurdles to overcome in the approval and commercialisation process for new therapies. Specialising in the developing world, our aim is to offer strategic advice and practical solutions, to both optimise commercial opportunities and improve patient access.

We:
  • Deliver solutions for optimal patient and market access using evaluation and decision making frameworks, in conjunction with relevant success criteria and performance indicators.
  • Develop comprehensive and novel access strategies, benchmarking and key performance indicator frameworks.
  • Direct long-term programme planning, monitoring and evaluation.
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  • Portfolio analysis
  • Product lifecycle evaluation
  • Decision-making frameworks
  • Business analysis and opportunity mapping
  • Financial modelling and economic analysis
  • Price / volume sensitivity analysis
  • Benchmarking against industry practices
  • Risk and market assessment – market risk, generics
  • Impact analysis
  • Strategies for effective and expedited reimbursement

Stakeholder Alignment

The challenges for the healthcare industry have increased over recent years due to the complexity of stakeholders and their diverse range of needs. At Health Access Strategies, our aim is to work collaboratively with all key players to deliver demonstrable value, which resonates with patients, payers, healthcare professionals and Governments.

We:
  • Provide stakeholder management and strategic engagement (Governmental bodies, KOLs).
  • Effectively manage stakeholder agendas and interfaces to deliver win-win solutions.
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  • Stakeholder mapping
  • Engagement and mobilisation
  • Fieldwork and opinion studies
  • Advisory boards / workshops
  • Advocacy
  • Healthcare priority mapping
  • Facilitation of improved Government relations
  • In-country interventions

Research and Evaluation

Decision-makers in global and local healthcare environments increasingly require evidence-based research before endorsing or adopting new approaches. At Health Access Strategies, our methodologies are based on robust research and critical evaluation to support the needs of key customers and policy-makers.

We:
  • Influence healthcare practices through the creation of novel approaches that can be evaluated for impact at national and international levels.
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  • Fieldwork
  • In-depth analysis using a range of qualitative and quantitative techniques
  • On-line surveys and data collection
  • Monitoring and evaluation
  • In-country audits

Programme and Operational Design

New strategic approaches require excellence in execution to be truly successful. With a proven track record of delivery, Health Access Strategies has built its reputation on providing clients with significant value, through cost-effective operational design.
 
We:

  • Increase access to quality treatment and care through in-country customisation of operational processes and excellence in programme implementation strategies.
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  • Programme eligibility criteria
  • Strategic partnership
  • Success criteria
  • Programme scope and growth mapping
  • Programme design for replication and up-scaling
  • Capacity building
  • Diversion management strategies
  • Infrastructure strengthening
  • Project management

Communications

A significant success factor for any strategy or programme is communication effectiveness. Health Access Strategies will deliver a range of communication support to maximise the impact of innovative strategies and programmes, both for internal and external stakeholders.

We:
  • Develop strategies to ensure stakeholder alignment within companies for optimal endorsement and buy-in.
  • Position access strategy programmes at national and international levels for maximum commercial impact and enhanced corporate reputation.
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  • Strategic communication needs assessment
  • Long term communication planning
  • Company positioning strategies
  • Alignment to corporate communication goals
  • Key access strategy messaging for internal endorsement and buy-in
  • Identification of strategic partnerships and investment opportunities
  • Development of programme materials and tools