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The Minnesota Peony Society (MPS) is a regional peony society based in Minnesota. Its stated mission is to promote interest in and appreciation of growing peonies, through educational programs and events for both members and the public. If you grow peonies in Minnesota or want to learn more about peony culture, MPS offers educational resources, an annual events calendar, and membership that includes a newsletter and member-only events.

What MPS Offers

The society's website organizes its content into several areas:

• Peony Culture — growing information, including a page on Winter Loss In Minnesota and one on 2025 Peony Leaf Curl
• Resources — MPS Exhibition Results, APS Awards, Peony Growers Handouts, Peony Societies, and MN Regional Societies
• News and Events — the annual calendar plus posts on past activities
• Membership — details on joining
• Volunteer — ways to help the society

The site also links to social media and notes that all are welcome to become members.

Annual Events

MPS publishes a calendar of events. The 2026 calendar listed on the site includes:

The fall root auction is described in detail: at 11:15 a.m. there is a fall peony care session with a peony dividing demonstration, then the auction starts at 1 p.m. The auction is open to all, and a link to the final auction list is available in the Events section. The society describes it as a chance to bid on new peonies for your garden.

How to Get Involved

1. Become a member. Membership includes a newsletter subscription and special member events, per the site. The Membership page is the place to start.
2. Attend a public event. The cut flower show and the fall root auction are open to all; the picnic and garden tour is members only.
3. Use the educational resources. Peony Culture pages, grower handouts, and exhibition results are available on the site.
4. Volunteer. The site has a Volunteer page for those who want to contribute to the society's work.

Where to Find More

• Exhibition results: Resources page → "MPS Exhibition Results"
• Regional societies: Resources page → "MN Regional Societies" and "Peony Societies"
• Grower handouts: Resources page → "Peony Growers Handouts"
• Event details and auction lists: the Events section

The site footer is dated © 2020 Minnesota Peony Society, and recent posts include 2025 Art In Bloom and summaries of past fall root auctions.

Bluespier's portfolio covers eight named areas: Theatre Management, Pre-Op, Emergency and Trauma, Stock Management, Consultancy, Virtual Clinic, and Private Practice. The right starting point depends on which stage of the surgical pathway is causing the most friction — theatre throughput, pre-operative assessment, emergency flow, stock visibility, or outpatient follow-up. Bluespier states its solutions are used by NHS Trusts and private hospitals, so both settings are in scope, but the module mix differs by problem rather than by organisation type.

Map the surgical pathway to modules

Bluespier describes its software as covering "the surgical pathway" end to end. Read that as a sequence of operational problems, each with a named product.

Theatre Management and Pre-Op are the two modules most directly tied to surgical throughput: one governs what happens in theatre, the other governs readiness before the patient arrives. If your bottleneck is patients arriving unprepared or assessments living on paper, Pre-Op is the entry point. If the bottleneck is list utilisation and data access during live lists, Theatre Management is.

Match the module to your operational problem

Theatre efficiency

Bluespier positions Theatre Management around teams "performing at peak efficiency by entering and accessing key data on the go." The stated benefit is agile management rather than a fixed reporting suite — the emphasis is on data capture at the point of care.

Pre-operative assessment

Pre-Op is described as enhancing and integrating the pre-op process through electronic assessments plus visibility of the patient's theatre journey. The integration claim matters: an electronic assessment that does not feed the theatre journey only moves the paperwork.

Emergency and trauma flow

This module is built around visual, real-time digital whiteboards for managing emergency patients. Real-time boards suit departments where patient location and status change faster than a written record can follow.

Stock and inventory

Stock Management appears in the portfolio without a detailed description on the homepage. Treat it as a supporting module — relevant if consumable availability is a known constraint on list delivery, but you will need a direct conversation to establish scope.

Virtual and private pathways

Virtual Clinic and Private Practice are the two modules with published outcome evidence (see below). Virtual Clinic suits trusts running remote or fracture clinic services; Private Practice suits organisations consolidating multiple private sites.

Compare by setting: NHS Trusts versus private hospitals

Bluespier states its solutions are used by both NHS Trusts and private hospitals. The portfolio itself does not split into "NHS modules" and "private modules" — the same core products appear in both settings, with Private Practice as the module most explicitly aimed at private-site consolidation.

For a trust, the Lancashire case is the closest published analogue. For a private group, the Gynehealth case speaks directly to multi-site consolidation.

Use published outcomes as shortlisting evidence

Two case studies on the Bluespier site give concrete outcomes:

• Preston virtual clinic (Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust): reduced DNAs and improved patient satisfaction. The source states the virtual fracture clinic "completely changed the service."
• Gynehealth (private practice): Bluespier "helped us bring the sites together smoothly, creating the streamlined structure we were aiming for."

Use these as directional evidence, not as guarantees. Both are single-site accounts; neither publishes baseline figures or measurement periods on the homepage. When shortlisting, ask for the underlying metrics — DNA rate before and after, site count, and rollout timeline — rather than relying on the summary.

Confirm next steps before committing

The homepage offers three concrete routes:

1. See our solutions / See all software — the portfolio overview, useful for building an internal shortlist.
2. Find out more on any individual module — module-level detail.
3. Contact: 0333 014 6262 or [email protected] — the appropriate route for scoping questions, pricing, and integration requirements.

The site does not publish pricing, licensing terms, or implementation timelines. Do not assume any module is free to trial or that access is unrestricted; confirm commercial terms directly.

A practical evaluation sequence: identify the single worst-performing stage of your surgical pathway, match it to the table above, request the module detail page, then ask Bluespier for a reference in your setting (trust or private) with comparable scale.