Case Studies | NHS Workforce Alliance

Discover how we’ve helped NHS organisations like yours by reading our case studies. Ranging from NHS trusts using our frameworks, to different projects we’ve helped deliver. If you have any questions about our case studies, or how we can help you, please contact your local NHS Workforce Alliance partner.

Conducting Supplier Reviews with Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust

With clinical agency staffing spend increasingly in the spotlight, trusts are tasked with not only reducing their reliance on agency staffing, but also ensuring their supply base is as efficient as possible. This means being able to identify and engage with the suppliers who can best meet their needs, forming closer strategic relationships and driving best value from the market.

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Data analysis expertise creating workforce efficiencies

The NHS Workforce Alliance team explore how analysing relevant data can support NHS trusts to find alternative suppliers to replace their off framework spend.

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AHP/HSS Stakeholder Group

Colleagues from the NHS Workforce Alliance, led by Tina Shires and Joanne Barton, created a stakeholder group of trusts that come together regularly to discuss supplier performance, share best practices and experiences

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Reducing the Echocardiography Backlog with Insourcing

Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals worked collaboratively with NHS Workforce Alliance to use an insourcing model to reduce their echocardiography backlog.

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Supporting our customers during the rise of Omicron and the Covid-19 booster season

One of the biggest workforce challenges the NHS has seen was created by a sharp rise in Omicron cases, causing staff sickness and self-isolation, combined with the redeployment of staff to support the Covid-19 booster campaign.

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Barts Managed Staff Bank

New Staff Bank Management Service at Barts Health NHS Trust boosts operational efficiency and achieves circa £1.5m cost savings

Utilising the NHS Workforce Alliance’s Managed Staff Banks framework, the Alliance worked collaboratively with Barts NHS Trust to open a new further competition for the provision of their Managed Staff Bank, ensuring an NHS compliant route to market.

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The Queen Elizabeth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Nursing Master Vendor

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust engaged the National Clinical Staffing framework on a project to streamline the supply of nursing staff into the trust.

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Insourcing solutions to streamline patient flow and deliver savings in Norfolk

Working collaboratively with Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (NNUH), using the Insourced Services framework to develop a bespoke, robust contract to meet their insourcing requirements.

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Cambridge and Peterborough Nursing Preferred Supplier List

The PSL works with a number of suppliers under bespoke terms and conditions, overseen and managed by the East of England NHS Collaborative Procurement Hub.

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East Midlands Mental Health Network Locum Doctors Preferred Supplier List

The East of England NHS Collaborative Procurement Hub and the East Midlands Mental Health Network have worked closely for several years with a focus on the supply of locum doctors via the National Clinical Staffing Framework.

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Sussex Partnership Foundation Trust overseas Mental Health nurse recruitment project

Sussex Partnership Foundation Trust engaged with the International Recruitment framework through NHS Commercial Solutions for a procurement with a tight turnaround.

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United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust significantly cut the Transthoracic Echocardiogram waiting list using Insourced Services

Partnering with the Alliance, ULHT were supported to open a new tender via the Insourced Services framework (RM6276), to offer diagnostics tests at Grantham CDC, enabling patients to be assessed in their local community - significantly cutting waiting lists.

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Leeds Teaching Hospital receives a cost-effective staffing solution

Discover how we supported Leeds Teaching Hospital with their immediate need for contractors using our Non-Clinical Temporary and Fixed Term Staffing framework.

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The East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust

The East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust engaged the NHS Workforce Alliance to support an urgent procurement for than 150 emergency call handlers from the Non Clinical Temporary and Fixed Term Staff framework.

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Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Nursing Preferred Supplier List

Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust engaged with the Clinical and Healthcare Staffing framework via NHS London Procurement Partnership to ensure best value and fit for their nursing staff supply.

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NHS Lancashire Procurement Cluster save £25,000 on permanent recruitment campaign

This case study outlines how our Permanent Recruitment framework helped a customer recruit for roles they were struggling to fill.

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Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust helps to address staffing shortages by recruiting over 300 nurses

The aim of the project was to increase current staffing numbers and address staffing shortages by accessing new markets through our International Recruitment Framework.

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