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Clinical Service Optimisation

Every clinical service will face the question: is this sustainable?

Whether you are defending a service under pressure, redesigning one that has outgrown its model, or building the case to invest in one that works, the answer starts with the same thing. One version of the truth that the whole board can act on.

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The board needs to act. The data says different things depending on who you ask.

Clinical services come under pressure for different reasons. Sometimes it is safety. Sometimes it is cost. Sometimes it is workforce. Usually it is all three at once, with each team holding a different version of events.

The Medical Director has the quality data. The CFO has the financial data. HR has the workforce data. The COO has the operational data. None of these datasets agree, and the board is left trying to make a decision about a service without one coherent picture.

The result is delay. A service that should have been reconfigured eighteen months ago is still operating the same way. A service that needs investment cannot prove its case. A service that is genuinely excellent has no evidence to defend itself when cuts are proposed.

Clinical Service Review exists to give the board one version of the truth. Not more data. A single, triangulated assessment that connects workforce, finance, quality, and performance into an evidence base the board can act on with confidence.

Medical Director

Sees quality and safety data. Incidents trending up.

CFO

Sees financial data. Service overspending by £2m.

HR Director

Sees workforce data. 18% vacancy rate. Agency rising.

COO

Sees operational data. Waiting times breaching. Activity flat.

Clinical Service Review

One version of the truth. The board can act.

Clinical Service Review

One version of the truth. For the decisions that matter most.

Strasys Clinical Service Review is an evidence-based, objective assessment of clinical services. It triangulates data from across the organisation into a single picture that no internal team can produce alone, because the data sits in different systems owned by different departments.

CSR does not start with a hypothesis. It starts with the data and follows it. The output is a clear, honest assessment that names the challenges, quantifies the opportunities, and gives the board the evidence to act. This approach works for services in difficulty and services seeking to grow. Clinical Service Review is Decision Intelligence applied to the hardest clinical decisions.

The tools for clinical service decisions

Evidence that connects what the board needs to know.

Clinical Service Review

Triangulates workforce, finance, quality, and performance data into one version of the truth. For the board decisions that cannot wait.

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Strasys Value Index

Shows how your services compare on value delivered per pound of funding. Identifies where variation is costing more than it should.

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Consultant Workforce Optimisation

Forensic analysis of consultant work patterns. Identifies where clinical capacity is trapped and how to release it.

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70%

A&E visits re-segmented

Low-complexity at one London trust

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Version of the truth

For services under CQC scrutiny

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Trust deployment

Acute and specialist services

HSJ

Bronze Award

Best Healthcare Analytics

"Working with Strasys has exceeded my expectations. I have been impressed by how a small group of people can work alongside the internal team to re-direct a complex organisation."

Prof John Chester

Prof John Chester

Chief Scientific Officer, Alder Hey Innovation

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"We needed a rounded analysis that took in all the data over several years, from workforce, finance, quality, and performance. We needed one version of the truth. We commissioned Strasys to apply their unique analytic, triangulating, objective approach to get us to that one version of the truth."

Maggie Oldham

Maggie Oldham

CEO, Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS FT

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Questions leaders ask about clinical service optimisation

Practical answers for the clinical decisions your board is facing.

Common triggers include CQC concerns about a specific service, workforce sustainability issues, financial pressures, or a planned reconfiguration. But CSR is equally valuable for services that are performing well and need evidence to secure investment or expansion.

A typical CSR engagement runs between 8 and 16 weeks depending on scope and data availability. The output is a comprehensive evidence base, not a PowerPoint. It becomes a reference document the board returns to as decisions progress.

CSR draws on workforce data (rotas, establishment, agency), financial data (cost, income, CIP), quality data (incidents, complaints, outcomes), and performance data (activity, waiting times, utilisation). We do not need perfect data. We need the data you have.

Yes. CSR is not only for services in difficulty. It provides the evidence base for services seeking investment, expansion, or a different operating model.

Yes. Where an ICB or provider collaborative needs an objective assessment of a service that spans multiple trusts, CSR provides the shared evidence base that no single organisation can produce alone. It depoliticises the conversation by grounding it in data rather than organisational interest.

Have a service that needs clarity?

A short conversation can clarify whether a Clinical Service Review is the right approach. We will share examples from similar services.

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