• Mind your delivery gap!

    Reducing the use and costs of additional activity.

    Plugging NHS delivery gaps cost-effectively to deliver more for less.

  • Reducing premium spend

    In today's high demand environment, NHS departments struggle to deliver enough activity to meet targets using substantive staff alone. The use of additional activity is therefore unavoidable. But the problem is that firefighting pushes departments into using most expensive responses — and premium spend becomes the default. Staffing Science helps you reduce avoidable premium spend.

  • From quick wins to sustained reduction in premium spend

    We start with financial assurance, move to active monitoring, and ultimately help departments design out unnecessary premium spend.

    1

    Immediate cost savings through our invoice matching service

    Our no-win-no-fee assurance and reconciliation service matches invoices to delivered work — spotting errors and slashing avoidable costs on premium activity. This can reduce between 5-20% of your in/outsourcing costs.

    2

    Sustainable cost control

    Once transactional integrity is addressed, the next challenge is control. Most departments know they use outsourcing or additional activity — but not how much, when, why, or at what unit cost. Our Activity Dashboard gives clear, ongoing visibility of:

    • how delivery gaps are being filled
    • the balance between lower-cost and premium responses
    • unit costs and trends over time
    • supplier price variation and benchmarking

    This turns premium responses from an accepted necessity into something that can be seen, questioned, and managed.

    3

    Preventitive control through adaptive service design

    Monitoring shows where premium responses are being used — but it doesn’t reduce the underlying need for them. The final step focuses on how your service is designed and responds to changes dynamically. By making the service delivery plan explicit and manageable, departments can:

    • focus substantive capacity on activity that is the most expensive to replace
    • respond earlier to emerging capacity gaps
    • rely less on high cost responses as pressure builds

  • Typical reductions in avoidable spend