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Value & Performance Featured

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

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

Mark Jennings

Chief Solutions and Services Officer . May 2025 . 12 Min Read

NHS healthcare

Key Finding

NHS Trusts lose up to 8bn annually through fragmented decision-making and duplicated effort.

Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust
Impact Story

Vision 2030

How a children's hospital stopped managing services and started improving life chances.

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

Naeem Younis

Founder and CEO

Workforce and Leadership Fish & Chip Paper

The NHS Promotes Experts and Hopes They Become Leaders. The Military Does the Opposite.

The military selects for leadership from age 16 and assesses continuously. The NHS promotes experts and hopes. The contrast is stark.

Dr Nadeem Moghal

Dr Nadeem Moghal

Chief Medical and Innovation Officer . Mar 2026

Workforce and Leadership Fish & Chip Paper

No NHS CEO Can Tell You How Many Consultants They Need. That Is the Problem.

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

Dr Nadeem Moghal

Chief Medical and Innovation Officer . Feb 2026

Value & Performance Fish & Chip Paper

Venture Capital Extracts Millions From General Practice While the Profession Demands Billions More

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

Dr Nadeem Moghal

Chief Medical and Innovation Officer . Feb 2026

Strategy & Transformation Award

FT Leading Management Consultancy UK 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

Naeem Younis

Founder and CEO . Feb 2026

Workforce and Leadership Fish & Chip Paper

The Incentive Is the Money. It Always Was.

NHS consultants respond when the right incentives exist. Fewer consultants doing more, for more pay. Productivity up. No new money required.

Dr Nadeem Moghal

Dr Nadeem Moghal

Chief Medical and Innovation Officer . Jan 2026

Strategy & Transformation Fish & Chip Paper

The NHS Emergency Department Crisis Is a Leadership Problem, Not a Capacity Problem

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

Dr Nadeem Moghal

Chief Medical and Innovation Officer . Jan 2026

Quality & Clinical Fish & Chip Paper

When Governance Goes Walkabout, Humans Exploit Humans

KPMG found UHB recruited hundreds of doctors under exploitative conditions. Every governance layer failed simultaneously.

Dr Nadeem Moghal

Dr Nadeem Moghal

Chief Medical and Innovation Officer . Jan 2026

Workforce and Leadership Fish & Chip Paper

The NHS Consultant Contract Is a 76-Year-Old Compromise. It Shows.

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

Dr Nadeem Moghal

Chief Medical and Innovation Officer . Dec 2025

Maternity Services in Crisis
Replay
Quality & Clinical Watch

Maternity Services in Crisis

Kate Shields, Dr Andy Heeps, Kim O'Keeffe

75 min
Dec 2025
Value & Performance Fish & Chip Paper

The Merger That Destroyed Value: An Impact Story in How Not to Get Bigger

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

Dr Nadeem Moghal

Chief Medical and Innovation Officer . Dec 2025

Quality & ClinicalInsight

Solving the maternity services crisis: the case for a Chief Triangulation Officer

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

Naeem Younis

Founder and CEO . Dec 2025

Quality & Clinical Fish & Chip Paper

Natural Birth at All Costs Is an Ideology, Not a Care Model. The Data Shows It.

Leeds had England lowest caesarean rate for a decade. Its stillbirth rate became the worst. Philosophy instead of data costs lives.

Dr Nadeem Moghal

Dr Nadeem Moghal

Chief Medical and Innovation Officer . Nov 2025

Workforce and Leadership Fish & Chip Paper

Fewer People Die During a Doctors' Strike. Nobody Wants to Talk About Why.

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

Dr Nadeem Moghal

Chief Medical and Innovation Officer . Nov 2025

Quality & Clinical Fish & Chip Paper

The NHS Judges Hospitals Without Knowing How Sick Their Population Is

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

Dr Nadeem Moghal

Chief Medical and Innovation Officer . Nov 2025

Rewiring Healthcare Around Childhood
Replay
Strategy & Transformation Watch

Rewiring Healthcare Around Childhood

Naeem Younis, Hugh Sherriffe, Prof Steve Turner

75 min
Sep 2025
Strategy & TransformationInsight

Invest in children: the best investment a nation can make

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

Naeem Younis

Founder and CEO . Sep 2025

Workforce and Leadership Impact Story

Building a modern, motivated workforce for a sustainable and thriving health system

UHLG used Workforce Decision Intelligence to understand the human stories behind 15,000 staff, identifying millions in savings and transforming people planning.

Naeem Younis

Naeem Younis

Founder and CEO . Sep 2025

Value & Performance Fish & Chip Paper

Gainsbury's Law: Why the NHS Will Always Cost More Than the Economy Can Give It

Modern medicine gets more expensive with progress. Every innovation adds cost. This is not a management crisis. It is healthcare economics.

Dr Nadeem Moghal

Dr Nadeem Moghal

Chief Medical and Innovation Officer . Sep 2025

Quality & Clinical Product

Strasys Maternity Index. A new way to track maternity risk.

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

Mark Jennings

Chief Solutions and Services Officer . Aug 2025

Quality & Clinical Fish & Chip Paper

The Maternity Signal Hiding in Plain Sight

NHS maternity units publish dozens of metrics that say nothing individually. The Strasys Maternity Index reveals a signal that predicts trouble.

Dr Nadeem Moghal

Dr Nadeem Moghal

Chief Medical and Innovation Officer . Jul 2025

Value & Performance Fish & Chip Paper

The NHS Finance Paper Nobody on the Board Understands

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

Dr Nadeem Moghal

Chief Medical and Innovation Officer . Jul 2025

The 10 Year Plan. No More Money.
Replay
Value & Performance Watch

The 10 Year Plan. No More Money.

Expert panel on releasing trapped value

75 min
Jul 2025
Strategy & Transformation Fish & Chip Paper

The NHS Needs a Ten-Year Plan. Just Not the One Being Written.

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

Dr Nadeem Moghal

Chief Medical and Innovation Officer . Jul 2025

Strategy & Transformation Fish & Chip Paper

Integrated Neighbourhood Teams Will Fail If We Let Hospitals Run Them

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

Dr Nadeem Moghal

Chief Medical and Innovation Officer . Jun 2025

Value & PerformanceInsight

When there is no more money,true innovation happens.

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

Naeem Younis

Founder and CEO . Jun 2025

Quality & Clinical Fish & Chip Paper

CQC Inspects the Bureaucracy of Care. Not the Quality of the Decisions That Determine It.

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

Dr Nadeem Moghal

Chief Medical and Innovation Officer . Jun 2025

Workforce and Leadership Fish & Chip Paper

Stop Recruiting Consultants Until You Know What the Population Needs

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

Dr Nadeem Moghal

Chief Medical and Innovation Officer . May 2025

Value & Performance Fish & Chip Paper

There Is No More Money. But There Is Trapped Value.

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

Dr Nadeem Moghal

Chief Medical and Innovation Officer . Apr 2025

Workforce and Leadership Award

HSJ Partnership Awards 2025 finalist.

Strasys and UHLG recognised for innovation in workforce planning. Shortlisted from 280+ entries for Best Consultancy Partnership with the NHS.

Naeem Younis

Naeem Younis

Founder and CEO . Mar 2025

Quality & Clinical Fish & Chip Paper

The End of Life System Is Not a System. It Is a Collection of Passionate Silos.

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

Dr Nadeem Moghal

Chief Medical and Innovation Officer . Jan 2025

Maternity Intelligence

Before the next investigation, know what the data already shows.

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.

  • Monthly risk and performance signals across every English maternity provider
  • How your trust compares to peers on the measures regulators and families care about
  • Early warning patterns that surface before they reach board papers

Get the Maternity Briefing.

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