With limited resources and increasing demand for healthcare services, workforce efficiency is crucial for the NHS to continue delivering effective care and a sustainable use of resources. By strategically allocating staff, minimising administrative burdens and implementing streamlined processes, NHS organisations can increase efficiency while simultaneously fostering a positive working environment that enhances morale and retention.
Arden & GEM’s system-level Workforce Efficiency Programme is designed to support the NHS return to clinical, operational and financial stability. This multidisciplinary end-to-end package of support can identify the value of opportunity savings, reduce agency expenditure and deliver a range of time saving deliverables across organisations, systems and provider collaboratives. Our service is built on a robust, coproduced, self-assessment baseline diagnostic of collective system governance and procurement arrangements, workforce reporting, tracking and control mechanisms - while benchmarking against NHS best practice during this initial discovery phase. Our process includes a detailed analysis of staffing arrangements utilising workforce data and financial analysis to provide a system-wide view of workforce challenges, we then model the potential value of efficiency opportunities to enable informed decision making for programmes of workforce transformation.
As an expert system ally and key leader in the programme management and efficiencies space, our support will increase system capability and capacity to deliver NHS workforce plans while demonstrating the efficient and sustainable use of NHS resources.
Our Workforce Efficiency Programme is individually designed to meet your local challenges by understanding your biggest opportunities and then supporting the required implementation projects. This draws on a range of service elements including:
- Executive workforce strategy and development
- Workforce planning and modelling
- Efficiency Productivity and Financial planning
- Workforce system deployment implementation
- System collaborative bank development support
- PMO capability and capacity
- BI and dashboard development
- Clinical Support Offer / Networks
- System Procurement and Commissioning.
Why Arden & GEM?
Arden & GEM has a proven track record of supporting organisations and systems in the devolvement and delivery of strategic workforce planning and workforce reporting. This includes individual and multiple organisational reporting spanning providers, primary care, local authority and the voluntary sector.
Our workforce efficiency approach delivers appropriate and timely planning and reporting that enables the identification of workforce 'hotspots' that can improve operational efficiency and reduce the need for temporary staffing.
CASE STUDIES
Arden & GEM is already helping healthcare systems to deliver their Workforce Efficiency Programme. Find out more by accessing the resources below.
Co-producing workforce solutions with health and care systems to reduce reliance on high-cost temporary staffing
Arden & GEM, in partnership with the Greater Manchester Provider Collaborative, delivered a system-wide temporary staffing review incorporating workforce planning, data analysis, systems and processes, and joint procurement and commissioning activities, with an estimated value of opportunity of £53m in agency savings.
Workforce planning to support acute reconfiguration
NHS Arden and GEM Commissioning Support Unit (CSU) has supported a medium-sized acute provider to develop a workforce plan as part of a major restructuring exercise to reconfigure services.
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