

Mind your delivery gap!
Our software and services reduce NHS departments costs of delivery by plugging their delivery gaps in the most cost-effective way.

Responses to delivery gaps: descalating costs
Most NHS departments do not deliver enough activity to meet targets using
substantive staff alone. To close the gap, services rely on additional activityoften insourcing or outsourcing at high cost. Staffing Science helps
departments reduce the cost and use of the more premium .
From Quick Wins to Sustained Cost Control
We start with financial assurance, move to active monitoring, and ultimately
help departments design out unnecessary premium spend.
1Immediate cost savings: assurance & reconciliation services
We start by saving you money immediately, without changing how your service runs. First, we run no-win-no-fee assurance services to esnure transactional integrity. This can reduce between 5-20% of your in/outsourcing costs.
2On-going 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 Sashboard 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 governed.
3Preventitive 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 the service is designed and adapted over time. 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
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