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| Type | Ltd |
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| Industry | Management consultancy |
| Founded | 1970 |
| Headquarters | Manchester, United Kingdom |
| Area served | Worldwide |
| Services |
Consulting Employment Law Six Sigma Lean |
| Employees | 30 (August 2010) |
| Website | www.collinsongrant.com |
Collinson Grant is a management consultancy firm based in Manchester. It operates in the UK, Europe and Worldwide. Collinson Grant have been employed by a wide range of large companies and organisations, most notably in the Healthcare and Public Sectors. The company currently employs around 30 consultants. [[File:|thumb|alt=Alt text|Caption]]
The company also has a branch devoted to healthcare, Collinson Grant Healthcare Ltd. www.collinsongranthealthcare.com
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Collinson Grant was formed in 1970. Their first year turnover in 1971 was £40,000, by 1980 turnover had risen to £2.5 million and by 1990 this figure was at £5.2 million.[1]
In 1970 the mission statement of the company was stated as:
"to deliver management and training consultancy which is profitable and meets the needs of clients in ways which brin a continuing relatioship and satisfy the aspirations of employees. The group will excercise the fullest possible care in all aspects of its services" [2]
Today the company's website describes its role as the following:
"We work with managers to restructure, merge acquisitions, cut costs, restore profitability, introduce lean operations, streamline supply chains and manage people better" [3]
The company has always had its offices based in the North West of England, where it still does a lot of its business. Its current office is in Worsley.
Collinson Grant carried out a review of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO)and published a report in January 2005, following "analysis of the work of almost 3,000 Foreign Office staff". [4] The report "raised concerns about the quality of leadership at the FCO and proposed cuts of as many as 1,200 posts and the removal of layers of management to achieve savings of £48m annually".[5] Collinson Grant's work in producing this document was referred to substantially in the 2006 Foreign Affairs select committee's annual report. The matter received substantial press coverage, partly for the controversy over for the alleged suppression of Collinson Grant's report. More generally the report identified a number of areas of for improvement within the FCO, such as overmanagement, a "lack of delegation" and its lack of incentives to reduce costs.[6] The Foreign Office said of the project: “A lot of what is in the report we have taken on board. It is paying dividends.”[7]
In 2007 Collinson Grant was engaged by Lord Carter of Coles to research and create a cost model for pathology services in the NHS. Twelve NHS services were investigated and piloted as a representitive of the whole country. The cost per test of 41 generic pathology assays were identified, and variations and similarities were determined. In the July 2007 newsletter published by the board reviewing pathology services, the work of Collinson Grant is mentioned as being used "to identify trends and similarities"[8] in the different types of pathology practiced in the NHS. The data Collinson Grant provided formed a key part of the Report of the Second Phase of the Review of NHS Pathology Services in England, [9] published in December 2008. The report states that "never before has such a comprehensive study been undertaken of the operation of NHS pathology services" [10]. The identifiaction of the costs of different assays has led the review to arguing a case for consolidating pathology, to improve quality, patients' safety and efficiency. According to Lord Carter's report this could bring savings of between £250 and £500 million a year [11].
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