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We specialise in helping organisations and teams enhance their performance and achieve their goals through tailored organisational development and individual development services.

Our approach starts with a thorough assessment, using a range of diagnostic tools, of your current position and your desired outcomes. From there, we design bespoke programmes to meet your unique needs. We ensure that our interventions are making a measurable impact through continuous evaluation and adjustment.

Our services

  • Strategic development: We help create a clear vision and values that are reflected in your workplace culture, supporting the development of leadership frameworks, talent management and staff engagement.
  • Culture and change transformation: Our experienced team guides you through cultural change, helping to create an environment that encourages and supports teamwork, collaboration and high performance.
  • Team and leadership development: We offer tailored coaching and development programmes for all levels – from aspiring leaders to executive boards – using a range of tools including psychometrics and leadership assessments.
  • Health and wellbeing: We offer activities and strategies that promote staff wellbeing, ensuring a healthy and productive workforce, including guidance on flexible working.
  • Employee engagement: using our extensive expertise we can support you to set up staff networks, lead engagement activities or manage your staff survey including action planning based on themes in your results.

News and events

Case study

Building stronger connections for team development: Strength Deployment Inventory (SDI)

NHS Midlands and Lancashire used Strength Deployment Inventory (SDI) to help several teams at different stages of their…

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Implementing a flexible working framework and training package for enhanced workforce culture

An NHS foundation trust, in collaboration with NHS Midlands and Lancashire, developed a flexible working framework and training…

News

NHS Midlands and Lancashire nominated for three NHS Health and Care Apprenticeship Awards

This June will see the first ever Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Health & Care Apprenticeship Awards taking…

We won the HR Excellence Award for ‘Best Health and Wellbeing Strategy’ in 2022. The magazine wrote:

“What is remarkable about this strategy, labelled outstanding by judges, was that it was delivered on a shoestring budget by a generalist team, driven by a passion for its people.

“Judges praised its clear focus on the business issue at hand and the engagement at every angle with its end goal of providing top-quality services to patients.”

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News, views and case studies

15 October 2024

Shaping the future of NHS care at the 2024 NHS Providers Annual Conference

The four NHS Commissioning Support Units (CSUs) will be taking part in this year’s NHS Providers Annual Conference and Exhibition, where we’ll…

4 September 2024

Transforming Derbyshire healthcare’s medical workforce for future resilience

Our work with Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust has significantly strengthened workforce planning, supported planning for the expansion of new roles, enhanced…

13 August 2024

Corporate social responsibility: doing more good

Blog by Tom Parnell | Senior Communications Manager | Health Economics Unit Corporate social responsibility (CSR) often gets a bad rap as…

1 July 2024

Enhancing efficiency and sustainability with a diagnostic healthcare workforce strategy

Through strategic collaboration and comprehensive planning, we enhanced the efficiency and sustainability of the diagnostic healthcare workforce within an integrated care system…

1 July 2024

Implementing a flexible working framework and training package for enhanced workforce culture

An NHS foundation trust, in collaboration with NHS Midlands and Lancashire, developed a flexible working framework and training package to promote a…

1 July 2024

Sustaining and expanding international recruitment for an integrated care system

Our Workforce Planning and Transformation team’s efforts secured a three-year investment for the International Recruitment Workforce Bureau, enabling the recruitment of 630…

12 June 2024

Reshaping an integrated care board for future success 

We successfully guided the organisational change process for an integrated care board, aligning its workforce with the long-term vision and ensuring seamless…

5 June 2024

Driving strategic workforce planning and operational excellence in an integrated care board

Through strategic leadership and effective collaboration, we significantly enhanced the understanding and implementation of a comprehensive workforce plan for an integrated care…

4 June 2024

Integrating recruitment services into a central team to deliver at-scale efficiencies 

Centralising recruitment services for NICE through NHS Midlands and Lancashire significantly improved efficiency, reducing time-to-hire to under 30 days, enhancing resilience, and…

24 May 2024

Optimising staffing strategies, cost reductions and strategic governance

Through detailed analysis and strategic governance frameworks, we reduced the usage of agencies for staffing, leading to notable reductions in agency costs…

3 May 2024

Enhancing our expertise in Workforce Planning to meet growing needs

NHS Midlands and Lancashire (ML) are excited to announce that we’ve secured five places for members of our People Consultancy Team and…

9 April 2024

Supporting hospital transformation programmes to embed equality, diversity, and inclusion considerations

Between 2022 and 2023, our Inclusion Unit provided a bespoke ‘due regard’ support package to the Lancashire and South Cumbria New Hospitals…

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How we can help health systems

Clinical redesign and provider collaboration

Redesigning how health and care works across England - placing people at the centre of their own health and care and utilising…

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Clinical redesign and provider collaboration

Communications and engagement

Supporting ICSs with approaches to design and deliver effective communication, engagement and behavioural insights as a key enabler for system change and…

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Communications and engagement

Developing health systems

Acting as an independent and trusted partner within the system to facilitate working across stakeholders and integrate elements of the provider system…

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Developing health systems

Digitally enabled transformation and IT

Digitising care and partnering with systems for the transformation of digitally enabled service delivery (and other supporting processes) across vision, planning and…

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Digitally enabled transformation and IT

Improving productivity and efficiency

We have a range of impactful solutions both across operational services and transformational programmes to support NHS systems to tackle some of…

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Improving productivity and efficiency

People solutions

Supporting systems to build a sustainable and integrated workforce, transforming systems, organisations and the workforce experience to improve resilience.

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People solutions

Personalised healthcare commissioning services

Providing end-to-end funded care services, including patients as active partners in identifying their healthcare needs and then commissioning care to meet these.…

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Personalised healthcare commissioning services

PHM analytics and decision support

Applying intelligence-led understanding of the health of the population to support the redesign of care and improve patient and financial outcomes across…

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PHM analytics and decision support

Place and primary care transformation

Supporting providers to work together at a place and neighbourhood level to manage common resources, integrate community teams, improve health and reduce…

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Place and primary care transformation
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