
Take advantage of the opportunities to maximise the value of every pound spent whilst also optimising care quality
Winter pressures and operational efficiency
Everyone struggles with the pressures of winter and even more so now 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 the 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 the 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.

Why efficiency is crucial for communications not just operations and finances
As the end of the financial year is finally within reach, all eyes are on the prize of efficiency – both operational and financial. But whilst budgets and finance come under the annual spotlight, we f...
Watch: Winter modelling in Bath, North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire
Find out more about how we developed a fully tested model to forecast bed usage, discharges and community demand.
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News and views

Listen to how we helped a Trust with their productivity and efficiency challenge
Improving productivity and balancing the books are a priority for the NHS. With efficiency targets increasing, NHS providers need to develop skills and share best practice to ensure this challenge is ...

What are the best tasks to automate?
Finding the right tasks to automate can be a challenge. There will be business pressure to target the high value inefficient activities, and a perception that the path to automation will be a seamless...

Cost improvement and productivity: the brewing storm
As the pressure builds to increase productivity and control costs, what is the answer for Trusts that have historically struggled to deliver efficiency targets, or feel they have exhausted all options...
Case studies

Delivering medical workforce analysis to identify gaps in consultant service
The organisation aimed to identify gaps in the Consultant workforce to deliver a seven-day service. Decentralised management, varied systems, and inconsistent practices hindered the Medical Directorat...

Driving better value for high-cost medical devices across the NHS
NHS England wanted to drive better value, ensure equitable access, and promote the integration of innovative medical technology across the NHS. This National Programme is positioned within a landscape...

An elective care workforce resourcing solution to support waiting list validation
Supporting Elective Care Recovery programmes by creating collaborative and integrated interventions using a workforce resource solution to solve administration and patient contact challenges faced wit...
Our services

Geospatial solutions to support Primary Care commissioning
Our geospatial consultants are experts in creating location-based solutions that layer population and health data to visualise trends, unlock patterns and reveal insights.
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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...

Delivering medical workforce analysis to identify gaps in consultant service
The organisation aimed to identify gaps in the Consultant workforce to deliver a seven-day service. Decentralised management, varied systems, and inconsistent practices hindered the Medical Directorat...

How NHS SCW has supported Provider Collaboratives part 2
The Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire (BSW) Acute Hospital Alliance (AHA) is a collaborative effort among hospitals in Bath, Swindon, and Salisbury. Their mission is to address local...

Simulation modelling to inform capacity plans for Stroke Reconfiguration Business Case
We worked as part of a multi-disciplinary team comprised of colleagues from SCW, Somerset ICB and Somerset Foundation Trust. SCW took the lead on the Demand and Capacity Modelling workstream and deliv...

Analysis of radiopharmacy services in England
Commissioned by NHS England we conducted a review of radiopharmacy units in England, their risks, and capacity to provide contingency in the event of unexpected shutdowns.

Supporting system-level planning with endoscopy demand and capacity modelling
We were commissioned by NHS England to develop a demand and capacity modelling tool for gastrointestinal endoscopies, for use by each Integrated Care System (ICS) in the South West region.

Improving accuracy and accessibility of Integrated Care Board data
NHS SCW supported Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board (ICB) to replace their analytics platform and improve their data processing activities to make their data more accurate and accessible.