Healthcare

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NHS

NHS

The NHS is built on providing exceptional service and care to patients and valuing its incredible workforce. However, balancing patient needs and staff workload is an ongoing issue.   

Effective and efficient workload management in healthcare has never been more important as healthcare demands and complexities continue to grow. The sector faces significant challenges in staff recruitment and retention, locum and agency spending, and staff well-being, including high burnout rates.   

As the NHS’s biggest asset and cost, getting workforce planning right is more imperative than ever because workload management is at the heart of operational excellence.  

The NHS is looking to improve productivity and create new models of integrated care to deliver a sustainable future. Simitive is an expert in workforce planning and is now working with the NHS to transform workforce planning in healthcare.

Similarities with the higher education sector

The NHS is facing similar challenges to the higher education sector, including: 

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Inadequate funding.

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A need to improve productivity.

03

Inequality across the workforce.

04

Workforce planning devolved to departments and managed via individuals with overly complex spreadsheets.

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No consistent and whole organisation approach for finance to trust and make strategic decisions. 

06

A short-term view of workforce planning. 

We have seen identical challenges in the further education sector, and that is why we can help.

Lady working in NHS pushing trolley down hospital hall

Health workload management

The NHS needs a workload management method that is easy to use and interpret. It needs to be applicable across wards and all areas of the hospital, covering all activities without increasing the time spent away from patients.  

Currently, we believe that no one can offer this except Simitive. 

The NHS aims to benefit from prioritising tasks based on urgency and importance, implementing clear time management strategies, and delegating tasks more efficiently.  

Providing a standardised and proactive approach to workforce planning in healthcare will benefit the NHS, the staff and their patients.