

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.
1Immediate 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.
2Sustainable 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.
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 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
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