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Workforce planning and transformation

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Workforce planning helps you ensure the workforce of today and tomorrow has the right numbers, skills, values and behaviours, at the right time and in the right place to deliver excellent healthcare and health improvement that meets the needs of the local population.  

Our experts will support you in transforming your health and social care teams.  We work with you to understand your current workforce composition and challenges along with future capacity and skills needs. We then co-develop a tailored workforce plan that could focus on efficiency, transformation or redesign to deliver the workforce which will meet the needs of your local population.

Our services

We help to facilitate lasting measurable workforce change through:

  • Workforce planning and modelling
  • Workforce efficiency
  • Workforce transformation and redesign.

Workforce planning and modelling

We will work collaboratively with you to develop workforce plans, creating a coherent set of actions to move from the current to the future state. We offer workforce planning support in phases, using our industry best-practice, six-step workforce planning methodology, which uses a combination of engagement, analytics and research.

Our expertise includes data analytics – we can undertake workforce modelling to assess and predict the demand​ for the current and future​ workforce based on the health needs of the local population and map against workforce supply.

Workforce efficiency​

We will provide advice and guidance on workforce efficiency including productivity, agency reduction, planning and implementation of collaborative and student banks and establishment of international recruitment hubs. Our team can help you understand, define and shape your workforce efficiency programmes providing practical steps and support.

Workforce transformation and redesign

Workforce redesign changes the workforce’s shape, composition and ways of working​ including developing new or amended roles​ and redesigning the workforce to adapt to new processes and technologies. We have a wealth of experience in devising and delivering workforce redesign that enables transformation which in turn achieves the desired future state of healthcare delivery.

News and events

Case study News

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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Improving workforce sustainability at an NHS foundation trust

Our Organisational Development team implemented a dynamic five-year integrated workforce plan at an NHS foundation trust, resulting in…

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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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