
Take advantage of the opportunities to maximise the value of every pound spent whilst also optimising care quality
Winter pressures and operational efficiency
Everyone is struggling with the pressures of winter and even more so this year with the cost-of-living crisis and the impacts of the war in Ukraine. These aspects only add to the already tortuous backlog challenges driven by the pandemic.
There is an urgent need to make the current system work as effectively as possible by optimising performance and driving efficient working and cost savings. With funding increasingly squeezed you need to take advantage of the opportunities to maximise the value of every pound spent whilst also improving care quality.
Access to health and care data that gives you the insight and information to oversee your performance and identify opportunities to improve the quality of care will be vital to delivering the savings needed.
We work with you as a partner to understand the challenges in your system or organisation and secure delivery of the outcomes you require. This includes capacity, capability, interventions, and support needed as well as the deliverables and the return on investment required within appropriate governance arrangements.
There is an urgent need to make the current system work as effectively as possible by optimising performance and driving efficient working and cost savings. With funding increasingly squeezed you need to take advantage of the opportunities to maximise the value of every pound spent whilst also improving care quality.
Access to health and care data that gives you the insight and information to oversee your performance and identify opportunities to improve the quality of care will be vital to delivering the savings needed.
We work with you as a partner to understand the challenges in your system or organisation and secure delivery of the outcomes you require. This includes capacity, capability, interventions, and support needed as well as the deliverables and the return on investment required within appropriate governance arrangements.

Exploring novel approaches to winter challenges
Looking for the most efficient and effective ways to tackle winter challenges we’ll try lots of different things. From different ways of keeping warm to different ways to communicate about our winter ...

Advancing mental health services by making winter funding go further
Using our expertise to support NHSE South East Regional Winter Planning 19/20 and 20/21
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Modelling with Children & Young People's Referral Management System Tool
The Children & Young People's Referral Management System Tool (CReST) is a demand and capacity tool. We developed the current version in partnership with NHSE, which supports Children and Young Pe...

Mince pies and multi-disciplinary teams: The impact of ARRS roles in primary care
With all the evidence indicating that the NHS is facing yet another bleak winter with significant (an understatement) pressure across the health and care system including waiting list challenges, A an...
Case studies

Creating a national immunisation service
In May 2020 there was serious concern within NHSE/I around the potential for a high prevalence of flu during the coronavirus pandemic. A solution was urgently needed to help increase immunisation upta...

Winter modelling in BaNES, Swindon and Wiltshire
Our business intelligence (BI) team was engaged by BaNES, Swindon and Wiltshire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) to develop a system-wide demand and capacity model to support winter planning. Also, ...

Demand and capacity modelling for an urgent care system
Working with the Bath and North East Somerset Urgent Care System in the development of a model to improve understanding of the major factors impacting the flow of acute patients into, through and out ...
Our services

Business Intelligence – Data driven decision making
We can offer deep-dive (intense, in-depth) analysis to assess and explore how your problem originated, what effects your problem is having, possible solutions for your problem, and how the possible so...

Business Intelligence - Planning and modelling
A comprehensive service supporting a range of requirements, from operational planning to strategic modelling. We offer various products and services to satisfy a broad spectrum of healthcare modelling...

Care navigation service
Our care navigation service is a recognised centre of excellence, that provides safe and appropriate referral support using the most clinically appropriate providers.
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Coordinate My Care - digital urgent care planning service
Ensuring that patient and carer’s wishes and preferences are at the core of decisions made in an urgent care situation with clinician-approved personalised care plans. Patients with Coordinate My Care...

GP Workforce Solutions
GP Workforce Solutions provides access to a highly specialised clinical workforce and remote clinical services to parts of the NHS that need additional capacity or to address significant operational n...

Workforce
We put people at the centre of our problem-solving approach based on our understanding of your complex workforce challenges. We use data and insight to create and deliver tailored, evidence-based work...
A programme like no other...
Liz Howarth, PMO Director COVID-19 Vaccines Deployment Programme and Mark Angus, Deputy PMO Leadership and Oversight Lead, delivered the keynote session at this year’s PMO conference held on 3 November 2021. They shared the challenges and successes of how the central PMO came together to support the delivery of the first vaccination in December 2020 and the subsequent millions of vaccinations since.
This video relays their experiences and those of the whole team on this fast-paced programme, likened to building the wings whilst the plane is flying.
Find out more about a programme like no other.
This video relays their experiences and those of the whole team on this fast-paced programme, likened to building the wings whilst the plane is flying.
Find out more about a programme like no other.
PMO Conference 2021 - COVID-19 Vaccination Deployment Programme
More case studies

Supporting national roll-out of new treatment in Health and Justice sites in England
NHS England wanted to identify the current national service provision of the buprenorphine long-acting injection for people recovering from opiate dependence within a framework of medical, social, and...

Securing £40.5m funding to improve Learning Disability and Autism care pathways
Co-ordinated delivery of a fully costed clinical model and complex business case as a 'neutral broker' across system partners to secure funding from NHSE to improve care pathways for Learning Disabili...

Significant savings identified through collaborative regional procurement
We worked with 7 ICBs and 15 Acute Trusts in the South West to develop a collaborative regional procurement approach, aggregating demand to meet challenging savings targets.
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Geospatial technologies to support service transformation
The Humber Acute Service Review (HASR) aims to deliver new models of care and infrastructure investment across a challenged health and care system. We were asked by HASR to provide geospatial and anal...

Modelling tool for long waits tackles 78-week wait ambitions
We co-developed a modelling tool for long waits with Somerset ICS to clarify the activity levels that were needed to achieve their 78-week wait ambitions. The model identified areas of risk and challe...

Ensuring a strong clinician voice in an Urgent and Emergency Care Strategy
We supported the development of a five year urgent and emergency care strategy urgently needed to meet new national guidance.
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