Evidence-led research, insights, and strategic frameworks for healthcare leaders who make better decisions, not just more reports.
Mark Jennings explores why NHS Trust productivity tends to decrease as size increases. Focus, not fragmentation, is the answer to better healthcare outcomes.
Mark Jennings
Chief Solutions and Services Officer . May 2025 . 12 Min Read
Key Finding
NHS Trusts lose up to 8bn annually through fragmented decision-making and duplicated effort.
Vision 2030
Alder Hey was drowning in demand. Instead of doing more of the same, the board asked a different question: what do children actually need? Four new care models. An innovation platform. HSJ Gold. HealthInvestor Partnership of the Year.
Naeem Younis
Founder and CEO
Rachel Lea, Dr Clare Hammell, Dr Azra Chang
Alder Hey has been named one of the first six Advanced Foundation Trusts in the country, and the only dedicated children’s Trust among them. We are proud to have worked alongside the Trust on Vision 2030.
Naeem Younis
Founder & CEO . May 2026
NHS maternity processes are improving while birth outcomes drift worse. The Strasys Maternity Index® reveals what sits underneath the flat line.
Mark Jennings
Chief Solutions and Services Officer . May 2026
The NHS has more consultants than ever, yet productivity has fallen. Four experts explore why counting people is the wrong measure and how to shift from volume to value.
Naeem Younis
Founder and CEO . May 2026
The military selects for leadership from age 16 and assesses continuously. The NHS promotes experts and hopes. The contrast is stark.
Dr Nadeem Moghal
Chief Medical and Innovation Officer . Mar 2026
NHS went from 4,000 consultants in 1948 to 60,000 today. Population grew 18%. Consultants grew 150%. Nobody knows if the number is right.
Dr Nadeem Moghal
Chief Medical and Innovation Officer . Feb 2026
Operose Health declared £4.6m profit from 773,000 patients. Meanwhile GPs demand £3bn more. This is a business model problem, not a funding gap.
Dr Nadeem Moghal
Chief Medical and Innovation Officer . Feb 2026
Recognised by the Financial Times in partnership with Statista, based entirely on client and peer recommendations. No firm can apply or pay for inclusion.
Naeem Younis
Founder and CEO . Feb 2026
NHS consultants respond when the right incentives exist. Fewer consultants doing more, for more pay. Productivity up. No new money required.
Dr Nadeem Moghal
Chief Medical and Innovation Officer . Jan 2026
Two thirds of one trust spend goes on emergency activity. Less than a fifth on elective care. During strikes, ED targets are met. The model needs flipping.
Dr Nadeem Moghal
Chief Medical and Innovation Officer . Jan 2026
KPMG found UHB recruited hundreds of doctors under exploitative conditions. Every governance layer failed simultaneously.
Dr Nadeem Moghal
Chief Medical and Innovation Officer . Jan 2026
Same contract. Same pay. One consultant delivers 2 theatre lists per month. Another delivers 8. PA variation is the system best-kept secret.
Dr Nadeem Moghal
Chief Medical and Innovation Officer . Dec 2025
Kate Shields, Dr Andy Heeps, Kim O'Keeffe
Three NHS trusts merged. Five years later, value generation dropped from 7th to 86th nationally. £166 million in trapped value. Nobody is looking for it.
Dr Nadeem Moghal
Chief Medical and Innovation Officer . Dec 2025
No maternity unit inspected by the CQC was rated outstanding for safety. Three leaders show how data, culture, and compassionate leadership can turn that around.
Naeem Younis
Founder and CEO . Dec 2025
Leeds had England lowest caesarean rate for a decade. Its stillbirth rate became the worst. Philosophy instead of data costs lives.
Dr Nadeem Moghal
Chief Medical and Innovation Officer . Nov 2025
Hospital mortality does not rise during strikes. ED targets are met. Wards empty. The evidence for a consultant-led operating model keeps arriving.
Dr Nadeem Moghal
Chief Medical and Innovation Officer . Nov 2025
SHMI league tables ignore disease burden. A trust in Blackpool achieving more than one in Surrey gets no credit. The data to fix this exists.
Dr Nadeem Moghal
Chief Medical and Innovation Officer . Nov 2025
Naeem Younis, Hugh Sherriffe, Prof Steve Turner
80% of lifetime health is shaped before 18, yet children receive less than 10% of healthcare spending. Experts share how to rewire healthcare around childhood.
Naeem Younis
Founder and CEO . Sep 2025
UHLG used Workforce Decision Intelligence to understand the human stories behind 15,000 staff, identifying millions in savings and transforming people planning.
Naeem Younis
Founder and CEO . Sep 2025
Modern medicine gets more expensive with progress. Every innovation adds cost. This is not a management crisis. It is healthcare economics.
Dr Nadeem Moghal
Chief Medical and Innovation Officer . Sep 2025
The Strasys Maternity Index uses 100 measures from national data to identify where maternity risks are highest, how they are changing, and how many people are affected.
Mark Jennings
Chief Solutions and Services Officer . Aug 2025
NHS maternity units publish dozens of metrics that say nothing individually. The Strasys Maternity Index reveals a signal that predicts trouble.
Dr Nadeem Moghal
Chief Medical and Innovation Officer . Jul 2025
NHS trusts running out of cash by Q2. Vendors waiting 120 days. Board finance papers hide the trajectory. The acid-test ratio tells the truth.
Dr Nadeem Moghal
Chief Medical and Innovation Officer . Jul 2025
Expert panel on releasing trapped value
The NHS 10-year plan reforms delivery. But demand comes from poverty and failing education. Until we fix what makes people sick, no reform works.
Dr Nadeem Moghal
Chief Medical and Innovation Officer . Jul 2025
The NHS wants INTs to shift care to communities. But if hospitals design and run them, the bureaucracy will absorb the reform.
Dr Nadeem Moghal
Chief Medical and Innovation Officer . Jun 2025
Leading healthcare experts discuss how to release trapped value in the NHS when there is no new money. Key insights from the Strasys Thinking Differently webinar series.
Naeem Younis
Founder and CEO . Jun 2025
CQC hospital ratings work like food hygiene scores. They tell you the kitchen is clean. They do not tell you whether the clinical decisions are good.
Dr Nadeem Moghal
Chief Medical and Innovation Officer . Jun 2025
The NHS employs 53,000 consultants. Each costs £5.5m over a career. Headcount grew 10x while population grew 1.4x. Nobody checks.
Dr Nadeem Moghal
Chief Medical and Innovation Officer . May 2025
The NHS has no fiscal headroom. ICBs are being halved. But the money the NHS needs is already inside the system. It is trapped. Here is how to release it.
Dr Nadeem Moghal
Chief Medical and Innovation Officer . Apr 2025
Strasys and UHLG recognised for innovation in workforce planning. Shortlisted from 280+ entries for Best Consultancy Partnership with the NHS.
Naeem Younis
Founder and CEO . Mar 2025
670,000 people die in the UK each year. 43% in hospital. End of life care is passionate silos, not a coordinated system.
Dr Nadeem Moghal
Chief Medical and Innovation Officer . Jan 2025
Most trusts track maternity activity. The Strasys Maternity Index tracks trajectory. 100 measures across safety, workforce sustainability, and outcome trends for every provider in England.
Find out where your trust sits in the context of the wider system. Intelligence this granular is not available anywhere else.
Kevin Lavery, Patti Harvey, Prof Corbett Nolan
NHS leaders discuss why the current model is outdated and must live within its means. System working demands a new mindset, not just integration and collaboration.
Naeem Younis
Founder and CEO . Jan 2025
How Alder Hey used Workforce Decision Intelligence to achieve a 2% sickness reduction, 5% retention improvement, and identify £70m savings through workforce segmentation.
Naeem Younis
Founder and CEO . Jan 2025
The Strasys Value Index (SVI) measures how much quality-adjusted activity NHS Trusts deliver per £1,000 spent. A 7x gap exists between highest and lowest performers.
Mark Jennings
Chief Solutions and Services Officer . Jan 2025
NHSE wants 95% of job plans signed off. They hit the target and miss the point. Team job planning cut one stroke service wait to 105 minutes.
Dr Nadeem Moghal
Chief Medical and Innovation Officer . Dec 2024
Mark Jennings, Prof Sir Muir Gray, Dr Dilshaad Ali
Strasys research from 2012-2017 reveals NHS cost improvement programmes deliver short-term savings but fail long-term, often leading to increased costs. A better path exists.
Naeem Younis
Founder and CEO . Nov 2024
Workforce planning reduces people to job titles and pay bands. Data analytics reveals the human stories, unlocking retention, wellbeing, and productivity.
Naeem Younis
Founder and CEO . Oct 2024
NHS staffing grew 20% since 2019 while treatment activity stayed flat. The answer is not squeezing harder. It is redesigning the business model.
Dr Nadeem Moghal
Chief Medical and Innovation Officer . Oct 2024
Strasys and Alder Hey recognised for excellence in digital workforce analytics. WDI transforms how trusts plan, understand, and support their staff.
Naeem Younis
Founder and CEO . Oct 2024
Dr Nadeem Moghal, Ajit Abraham, Dr Arif Rajpura
Expert panel explores how the NHS can confront health disparities through education, economics, environment, community and culture.
Dr Nadeem Moghal
Chief Medical and Innovation Officer . Sep 2024
How healthcare providers can address health inequalities through patient needs, staff equity, and community building. The Strasys IPSC Equality Framework for NHS learning organisat.
Dr Nadeem Moghal
Chief Medical and Innovation Officer . Sep 2024
Health inequalities are a societal choice with consequences. Five experts share practical methods for NHS leaders to confront these disparities and drive meaningful change.
Dr Nadeem Moghal
Chief Medical and Innovation Officer . Sep 2024
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At £85bn, the NHS carries an enormous litigation liability. Dr Nadeem Moghal explores why and how digital innovation and data can reduce clinical harm and litigation costs.
Dr Nadeem Moghal
Chief Medical and Innovation Officer . Sep 2024
Current approaches to measuring professionalism in healthcare are bureaucratic tick-box exercises. Dr Nadeem Moghal explores how digital innovation can revolutionise professional d.
Dr Nadeem Moghal
Chief Medical and Innovation Officer . Aug 2024
Expert panel explores how data, AI and science can transform healthcare decisions, from boardrooms to frontline. Features the launch of the Strasys Decision Intelligence Platform.
Naeem Younis
Founder and CEO . Jul 2024
Mark Jennings explains how Strasys uses AI alongside human experience and scientific rigour to help NHS boards make better strategic decisions through three pillars: Understand, St.
Naeem Younis
Founder and CEO . Jul 2024
In conversation with Professor Sir Muir Gray and Dr Nadeem Moghal on value in healthcare, the need for better stewardship of resources, and why productivity requires understanding .
Dr Nadeem Moghal
Chief Medical and Innovation Officer . Jun 2024
Workforce Data & Insight
Carl Sheldrick, Melissa Swindell, Heather Barnett
Prof Sir Muir Gray, Claire Wilson, John Grinnell
How a London NHS Trust used patient segmentation to transform urgent care, finding 70% of ED visits were low-complexity cases treatable in alternative settings.
Naeem Younis
Founder and CEO . Jun 2024
Expert panel explores new approaches to closing the healthcare performance gap, moving from cost reduction to value creation.
Naeem Younis
Founder and CEO . Jun 2024
Cost improvement programmes have not fixed NHS productivity. Five experts explain why value, not cost reduction, is the real lever for long-term sustainability.
Naeem Younis
Founder and CEO . Jun 2024
A healthcare transformation roundtable hosted by Hoan My Medical Group convened 50+ experts including Vietnam Ministry of Health to discuss integrated care models for ASEAN.
Naeem Younis
Founder and CEO . Jun 2024
Strasys announces strategic partnership with Vietnam largest private healthcare network Hoan My Medical Group to bring international standards of care and build Centres of Excellen.
Naeem Younis
Founder and CEO . Jun 2024
Strasys partners with Professor Sir Muir Gray and OVSP to deliver improved value in healthcare through evidence-based tools for productivity and resource allocation.
Naeem Younis
Founder and CEO . Jun 2024
Strasys and Alder Hey named best public/private partnership for combining analytics, strategy, and capability building to reshape paediatric care.
Naeem Younis
Founder and CEO . Jun 2024
How looking at healthcare data from new angles through segmentation reveals insights that standard benchmarking misses, enabling better decisions and improved care.
Naeem Younis
Founder and CEO . May 2024
How Strasys delivered one version of the truth for an NHS Trust's Cardiology and Cardiothoracic services through a three-month Clinical Service Review.
Naeem Younis
Founder and CEO . Apr 2024
NHS workforce planning treats people as headcount. Decision Intelligence reveals the human stories behind the data. Watch the Thinking Differently webinar recap.
Naeem Younis
Founder and CEO . Apr 2024
How Alder Hey used Decision Intelligence to pivot from a hospital service provider to improving life chances for children and young people.
Naeem Younis
Founder and CEO . Apr 2024
Strasys and Alder Hey recognised for radical thinking that helped reshape the future of children's healthcare. Gold winner from 280+ entries.
Naeem Younis
Founder and CEO . Mar 2024
Dame Jo Williams, Melissa Swindell, Heather Barnett
Every NHS board starts with a patient story. By agenda item two it is forgotten. Boards need triangulated population data, not theatre. Here is what works.
Dr Nadeem Moghal
Chief Medical and Innovation Officer . Mar 2024
Inaugural webinar exploring how workforce planning could be done differently for greater productivity, wellbeing, and patient experience.
Naeem Younis
Founder and CEO . Mar 2024
How Mid Cheshire NHS Foundation Trust used population analytics and Decision Intelligence to reimagine health and care, creating the PLACE roadmap for integrated care.
Naeem Younis
Founder and CEO . Mar 2024
Martha's Rule gives families a voice. But rules do not fix culture. NHS boards need safety governance connecting data to decisions.
Dr Nadeem Moghal
Chief Medical and Innovation Officer . Feb 2024
Alder Hey NHS Foundation Trust and Strasys forge a first-of-its-kind partnership to develop an innovation-at-scale platform for children, young people, and families.
Naeem Younis
Founder and CEO . Feb 2024
Health inequalities stem from social determinants outside the NHS. The NHS treats disease, not its causes. New business models are needed.
Dr Nadeem Moghal
Chief Medical and Innovation Officer . Jan 2024
NHS spent two decades on patient-centred care. Outcomes have not shifted. This briefing asks whether treating citizens as informed consumers changes the design equation entirely.
Impact Story . Jun 2024Naeem Younis
Founder and CEO
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