Our Thinking Differently webinar series convenes leading NHS executives, clinicians and data experts to tackle healthcare's toughest operational challenges. 75 minutes. Practical insight.
The NHS doesn't lack data. It lacks the decision architecture to act on it. Thinking Differently exists to close that gap.
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Every Thinking Differently session, available on demand. Each replay includes key takeaways and links to related insight in The Hub.
Groups, mergers and collaboratives are forming at pace. Sir David Dalton, Professor Lesley Dwyer, John Grinnell and Robert McGough on what the structure can and cannot deliver, and the business model question underneath it.
Sir David Dalton, Prof Lesley Dwyer, John Grinnell, Robert McGough
How can NHS trusts unlock trapped value in their consultant workforce? Practical insight on rostering intelligence, job planning, and Decision Intelligence approaches to workforce optimisation.
Rachel Lea, Dr Clare Hammell, Dr Azra Chang
Balancing data, gut instinct and anecdote in maternity governance. Why boards need a new role to triangulate competing signals.
Dr Andy Heeps, CEO UH Sussex
How rewiring NHS services around childhood can improve lives and create lasting value for populations.
Prof Steve Turner, President RCPCH
Why financial constraints are forcing the NHS to think differently, and how data-driven innovation is unlocking trapped value.
Sally Gainsbury, Nuffield Trust
How to make health systems work: practical examples of leveraging data to drive system-wide innovation and integrated care.
Kevin Lavery, CEO NHS LSC ICB
How leaders can leverage AI and data science as an essential capability to improve board-to-frontline decision-making.
David Flory CBE, Chair UHLG
Practical methods for narrowing health disparities. Debating the wider determinants including education, economics, environment and culture.
Dr Arif Rajpura, DPH Blackpool
Rethinking the £20m productivity opportunity. Why current workforce planning is activity-driven and unconnected, and what to do about it.
Dame Jo Williams, Chair Alder Hey
Featuring Prof Sir Muir Gray. Moving the conversation from cost reduction to improving value through better use of data and evidence.
Prof Sir Muir Gray
NHS trust chairs, ICB leaders, clinical directors and independent experts who bring lived experience to every session.
Prof Sir Muir Gray
Emeritus Fellow, Oxford
Dame Jo Williams
Chair, Alder Hey NHS FT
David Flory CBE
Chair, UHLG
Kevin Lavery
CEO, NHS LSC ICB
James Sumner
CEO, UHLG
Patti Harvey
Fmr SVP, Kaiser Permanente
Event replays, written summaries, data downloads and related case studies. All in one searchable library built for NHS decision-makers.
Enter The HubThinking Differently is a free webinar series convened by Strasys, bringing together leading NHS executives, clinicians, and data experts to tackle healthcare's most complex operational challenges. Each 75-minute session focuses on practical, evidence-led solutions, from workforce productivity and health inequalities to data-driven decision-making and maternity services reform. All sessions are recorded and available as replays.
Strasys events feature a mix of NHS Trust CEOs, ICB leaders, clinical directors, and independent experts alongside Strasys's own leadership team including Dr Nadeem Moghal (Chief Medical & Innovation Officer) and Mark Jennings (Chief Solutions & Services Officer). Past speakers have included Prof Sir Muir Gray, Dame Jo Williams (Chair, Alder Hey Children's NHS FT), David Flory CBE (Chair, UHLG), and Kevin Lavery (CEO, NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria ICB).
Yes. All Strasys Thinking Differently webinars are free to attend. Registration is via Eventbrite. Each session runs for approximately 75 minutes and all events are recorded so you can watch the replay if you cannot attend live.
Decision Intelligence is the discipline of converting healthcare data into executive action. Rather than producing dashboards or reports that sit unused, Decision Intelligence connects analytics, AI, clinical expertise, and behavioural science to help NHS leadership teams make better decisions about workforce, services, and resource allocation, with measurable impact on patient outcomes and financial sustainability.