Creating breathing space for the NHS
In the high-stakes environment of healthcare, the NHS faces a complex multiple of challenges: navigating capacity constraints, addressing funding dilemmas, and reducing patient waiting times. These challenges, at their core, arise from an intricate imbalance between financial resources, operational capacity, and escalating patient demand—a productivity puzzle that demands not only innovative but also pragmatic agile solutions.
To effectively address these challenges, the NHS urgently requires substantial headroom. Expanding capacity is crucial—streamlining operations, optimising resource allocation, and enhancing patient care standards. This shift not only converts systemic pressures into opportunities but also supports the future proofing of patient needs. With this increased headroom, the NHS will be better equipped to overcome today’s challenges and confidently prepare for future demands.
This strategic expansion of capacity is essential in transforming how the NHS operates and ensuring it can deliver exceptional care without compromise.
Creating breathing space for the NHS is more than just alleviating immediate pressures; it’s about building a foundation for sustainable growth and improved patient care. Our suite of solutions is designed to address the multifaceted needs of the NHS, ensuring that every measure not only supports but actively enhances the capacity to deliver exceptional healthcare.
£146 million
➥ What we saved an NHS body in real terms over 5 years.
6,500 GP practices
➥ How many we support with a range of digital services.
Multiple ICSs
➥ We’re helping integrated care systems with innovative self-funding and benefits models.
Working with us means opting for a delivery partner who not only understands the challenges faced by the NHS but is committed to solving them with solutions that are agile and crafted with the aim of addressing immediate challenges. We focus on action and dedicated to delivering real, measurable results, ensuring that every action taken is a step towards a more efficient, sustainable, and patient-centred NHS.
Our promise when you partner with us:
Real impact
We deliver tangible, practical solutions that rapidly enhance NHS productivity outcomes. Each initiative is designed to make a significant and beneficial difference.
Agility
Our expertise spans from providing quick, short-term fixes to engineering long-term advancements, ensuring that our strategies address current needs and pave the way for sustainable growth.
Measurable results
We stand by the effectiveness of our solutions with a commitment to measurable outcomes. Our focus remains on creating visible improvements that validate your investment. We’re also not afraid to take on risk.
Affordability
Partnering with us is a cost-effective choice. We’re focused on delivering excellent value services and ensuring that you receive optimal results without excessive expenditure. We guarantee savings and take on risks.
To be able to support patients and delivery essential services, every penny counts more than ever for the NHS. Through our procurement, estates rationalisation and sustainability initiatives, we save costs and reinvent how these genuine cash savings fuel further innovation within the NHS. We deliver:
- innovative procurement solutions with guaranteed savings
- guaranteed energy cost savings
- net zero capital outlay avoidance solutions
- PFI non-compliant works cost recovery/estates optimisation
Discover how our solutions have delivered real financial returns for the NHS:
£17.3m
➥ Annual procurement savings
£4m
➥ energy savings identified
£200m
➥ Non-compliant PFI works identified
£3m
➥ Saved annually through asset rationalisation
Creating rapid cost savings - highlights:
Improved patient care through procurement transformation
Our new procurement service at CLCH has enhanced healthcare for two million people, saved millions of pounds and boosted productivity.
Generating significant savings and improving patient care for an ICS
Hertfordshire and West Essex ICS now has a high performing procurement function with the right skills, systems and tools to deliver significant saving.
Through our expertise in automation, AI and information management and estate optimisation, we simplify the NHS’s most complex operations. This not only frees healthcare professionals to focus on what’s most important, but it also boosts overall productivity. We support with:
- automating and streamlining processes
- intelligent information management
- artificial intelligence
- shared services
- virtual care
The transformative impact of our productivity and efficiency-enhancing solutions
12 million medical records
➥ Processed for over 6,000 GP practices, significantly enhancing access and efficiency in patient data management.
55.2 million pages
➥ Scanned for an NHS trust, dramatically improving retrieval times.
50% reduction in processing times
➥ Achieved through automation, enhancing the accuracy and efficiency of annual pension calculations for a primary care provider.
Unlocking efficiency - highlights
Digitising hospital health records whilst ensuring interoperability
Optimising health records management is crucial for NHS and private healthcare organisations, reducing clinical risks, costs and enhancing both productivity and reputation.
Transforming communications management for DWP
Assessing over 200,000 PIP claimants annually and managing multichannel communications, enhancing responsiveness, productivity, and sustainability.
Unlocking efficiencies for GP practices through digital transformation
Find out how we’re helping to deliver practical and agile digital management solutions for GP practices.
Productivity prescription: giving the NHS space to breathe
As an NHS partner, we’re aware of the difficulties in realising ambitious goals within a service that’s facing genuine challenges and talk about tackling productivity and innovation head-on.
By utilising data analytics and AI, we transform how the NHS operates, offering deep insights into patient care trends, resource management, and risk forecasting to empower more informed, impactful decision-making.
Our data-driven strategies enhance patient care, tailoring solutions to meet the complex needs of healthcare delivery. Our focus is to drive tangible improvements in patient outcomes and satisfaction, ensuring a better experience for all. We leverage data to provide the NHS with deep insights, helping to solve complex problems and forecast risks for vulnerable people.
Our services include:
- data strategy and artificial intelligence
- utilising multi-agency data sharing
> 5,000 assets
➥ At South Tees Hospital are tracked in real-time using the Internet of Things (IoT) and significantly improving asset management and operational efficiency.
18 data sources
➥ Fused for Greater Manchester Police, resulting in the creation of 100 operational reports and dashboards using data science and AI
46 legacy data systems nationally
➥ Migrated into a single platform for Police Scotland, streamlining access and decision-making.
Connecting data - highlights
Helping vulnerable families in Milton Keynes get support sooner.
We’ve enabled Milton Keynes City Council to quickly share education, social care and youth data, cutting the process to get a full picture of a family.
Transforming the futures of vulnerable citizens
A joint venture with a city in Southeast England has transformed the lives of thousands of families.
Primary Care Support England
We support every GP practice in England with a broad range of digital, logistical and support services on a national scale, delivered locally.
Scottish Wide Area Network (SWAN)
Find out how we deliver the technology that underpins Scotland’s health and social care system with a 98% satisfaction level from public sector respondents.
