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The Decision Intelligence Engine for Healthcare.

Healthcare systems should be built around the people they serve, not the institutions that run them. We build the intelligence to make that real.

HSJ Gold: Best Consultancy Partnership with the NHS
FT Leading Management Consultancy 2026
HealthInvestor: Public/Private Partnership of the Year
HSJ Bronze: Best Healthcare Analytics Project for the NHS
Trusted across NHS trusts, ICBs, and national programmes
HSJ Gold: Best Consultancy Partnership with the NHS
FT Leading Management Consultancy 2026
HealthInvestor: Public/Private Partnership of the Year
HSJ Bronze: Best Healthcare Analytics Project for the NHS
Trusted across NHS trusts, ICBs, and national programmes

What is Decision Intelligence?

Every NHS trust has dashboards. Very few have one version of the truth. Decision Intelligence is the discipline that connects clinical evidence, workforce reality, and financial risk into a single picture. So leaders can make confident decisions that improve outcomes for their populations and the systems that serve them.

1. Ask the right questions. Reveal what the data hides.

We triangulate clinical, workforce, and financial data around how consumer needs are actually met. Surfacing what dashboards miss.

Maternity Index · Workforce DI · Population Segmentation · Value Index

2. Design solutions and futures to deliver better outcomes.

Better outcomes with better use of resources. Not more of the same.

Clinical Service Review · CWOS · Maternity Service Transformation

3. One version of the truth. For better governance.

Better decisions. Better boards. Better outcomes. The evidence to govern with confidence.

Board Operating System · Strasys Board Operating System (SBOS)

4. Develop the leaders the NHS needs.

The NHS asks leaders to transform systems they were never trained to lead. Rigorous, science-led programmes for Medical Directors, Boards and CxOs, built by practitioners who have led healthcare organisations.

Strasys Academy · 8 specialist programmes

Decision Dilemmas

From boardroom to frontline, the decisions that shape the NHS start here.

We've worked across trust boards, integrated care systems, clinical services, and national transformation programmes. These are some of the dilemmas leaders brought to us.

Trust Boards

"We've cut everything we can see. The savings we need now are in the places we haven't looked."

Hundreds of millions in recoverable value, revealed by starting with people, not spreadsheets.

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ICB Boards

"Four providers. Four versions of the truth. One population getting the gaps between them."

Five organisations. One radical shared blueprint. £300m+ in trapped value without additional resources.

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Clinical Leaders

"If this service fails, the first question won't be what went wrong. It will be what I knew and when."

One version of the truth. Workforce, finance, quality, performance. So the board could act before, not after.

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National & System Leaders

"We've written the policy. Published the framework. And nothing has changed on the ground."

A hospital reimagined as a vehicle for children's life chances. The model became a national blueprint.

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Decision Intelligence in Action

Two questions every board should be able to answer.

Where is the trapped value in your system?

NHS trusts over £1.5bn in operating expenditure consistently underperform smaller trusts on both productivity and outcomes. The question isn't whether your trust has trapped value. It's how much, and where.

Powered by the Strasys Value Index. Original research across all NHS acute trusts.

Find out where your trust stands

Do you know your true maternity risk?

Every trust board says patient safety is the priority. But do you know where the real risks are in your maternity services before they become a crisis? The Strasys Maternity Index turns data into foresight, so your board can prevent harm, not just report on it.

Powered by the Strasys Maternity Index. The only proprietary maternity intelligence tool in UK healthcare.

Understand your true maternity risk
Client Voices

The impact of thinking differently.

Russ Favager, Board SRO NHP — Strasys Innovation Stories
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"This has been the most different vision and strategy process that I have ever seen. They kept reminding us that whilst we've got operational pressures, this solution would solve them in the long term."

Russ Favager, Board SRO NHP, Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Russ Favager

Board SRO, NHP, MCHFT

"Our vision needed to be reimagined. Strasys brought extensive industry knowledge and a different mindset. It's probably been the most intellectually challenging process I've been through. It's transformed my thinking big time."

John Grinnell, CEO Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust

John Grinnell

CEO, Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust

"Strasys helped us see our workforce challenge completely differently. For the first time, we had the evidence to act with confidence. Not just more data, but a clear decision framework the board could rally behind."

Pip Gaskell, Director of People, Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Pip Gaskell

Director of People, LUHFT

The Strasys DI Platform

What if you started with
people, not policy?

The NHS plans from left to right. We work from right to left. Same system. Completely different answers.

CURRENT NHS APPROACH ▼ Policy & Regulation Financial & Operational Efficiency Organisation Form Service / Care Models Workforce Skills/Needs/Teams WE START HERE Consumer needs, behaviours & motivations ▲ THE STRASYS APPROACH WHAT-IF: USING DATA AND INSIGHTS DIFFERENTLY

Impact that lasts.

From flagship partnerships to frontline delivery. The outcomes that followed.

Strategic Co-Innovation Partner

Alder Hey Children's Hospital

We redesigned the organisation around the life chances of children, delivering better outcomes across health, care, and education. A unique partnership that continues today, driving system-wide change.

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Alder Hey Children's Hospital partnership with Strasys

More impact stories

The Strasys Academy

Led by people who've sat in your chair.

Healthcare's toughest problems don't get solved in a classroom. Our programmes put leaders in the room with the evidence, the tools, and each other. Real challenges. Real decisions. Real change.

Explore Academy Programmes
Strasys Academy session with healthcare leaders
The DI Hub

News, Insights & Innovation.

Award / News 2026

FT Leading Management Consultancy in the UK

Recognised by the Financial Times as a leading management consultancy in the United Kingdom.

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Board Decisions · Webinar

The 10 Year Health Plan: there is no more money. Now what?

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Board Decisions · Insight

CIPs do not work. A better approach to closing the performance gap

Mark Jennings

Mark Jennings

Board Decisions · Insight

The value of focus in the NHS (at least £8bn per year)

Mark Jennings

Mark Jennings

Board Decisions · Fish & Chip Paper

When there is no more money, true innovation happens

Dr Nadeem Moghal

Dr Nadeem Moghal

Workforce Intelligence · Case Study

Revolutionising workforce planning with University Hospitals of Liverpool

Strasys

Strasys

Workforce Intelligence · Case Study

Building a modern, motivated workforce

Strasys

Strasys

Workforce Intelligence · Fish & Chip Paper

A model of care that once worked is now broken

Dr Nadeem Moghal

Dr Nadeem Moghal

Clinical Safety · Insight

The Case for a Chief Triangulation Officer

Dr Nadeem Moghal

Dr Nadeem Moghal

Clinical Safety · Webinar

Maternity services in crisis: designing better beginnings

Strasys

Watch Replay

Clinical Safety · Webinar

What can the NHS really do about health inequalities?

Strasys

Watch Replay

Clinical Safety · Fish & Chip Paper

Friday Fish and Chip: thinking differently to improve healthcare

Dr Nadeem Moghal

Dr Nadeem Moghal

Impact Stories

Reimagining health and care around the needs of children

Naeem Younis

Naeem Younis

Impact Stories

Transforming A&E through understanding consumer needs

Naeem Younis

Naeem Younis

Impact Stories

Evidence-based transformation of challenged clinical services

Naeem Younis

Naeem Younis

Fish & Chip Paper · Insight

Solving the NHS productivity crisis by moving to a needs-based business model

Dr Nadeem Moghal

Dr Nadeem Moghal

Insight

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