Workforce Consulting
Operational support to improve workforce performance and productivity
We support our NHS partners to transform workforce operations, improve productivity and meet ambitious cost improvement goals.
Our teams provide a unique service, closing the gap between strategic workforce planning and operational delivery, combining management consultancy-style insights with direct, hands-on support to implement new processes and deliver lasting system change.
As a long-established and trusted partner to the NHS, Litmus has proven experience delivering complex system-wide workforce and operational improvement programmes, grounded in the realities of frontline service delivery.
We can help you with:
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Strategic Workforce Planning
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Clinical Job Planning
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Demand and Capacity Modelling
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Recruitment Efficiency Programmes
Strategic Workforce Planning
Strategic guidance and support to carefully plan and deliver complex workforce and organisational change
Our strategic workforce planning services are grounded in operational delivery.
We work at service level, providing the detailed data insights and risk profiling executive teams need to make confident, informed decisions on changes to long‑established operational models, in line with national policy and workforce trajectory targets.
Whether your priority is workforce cost reduction or improving planned care (RTT) performance, Litmus has a strong track record of safe, effective delivery in complex operational environments.
Clinical Job Planning
Hands-on support to accurately align clinical capacity with service demand
While job planning best practice is well established across the NHS, effective implementation is increasingly compromised by capacity pressures and competing clinical priorities.
Our specialist clinical job planning service is designed to fill this gap, providing the expert hands-on support needed to ensure all consultants have agreed, up-to-date job plans aligned to service demand, team and clinical priorities.
Commissioning external support means contractual expectations can be met without adding pressure to internal teams. Clinicians also tend to engage more openly with an independent, neutral partner.
Demand & Capacity Modelling
Expert support to develop accurate, data-driven models that reflect true demand, capacity constraints and pathway complexity
We work closely at departmental level to quantify demand, map patient flow and identify capacity risks, developing flexible, predictive models with sufficient flex to respond to changing service needs.
Accurate demand and capacity modelling is critical to understanding true workforce requirements, enabling more confident planning and sustainable service delivery.
Recruitment Efficiency
Support to transform the efficiency of the end-to-end recruitment process, optimising headcount and minimising staffing costs
With an increasing shortage of workers, efficient recruitment and resource utilisation is essential to meet the current and future need for health and social care services.
Supported by analytical, HR and finance experts, our teams can conduct detailed hiring process reviews and provide the on-the-ground support needed to optimise and streamline your recruitment pipeline, accelerating time-to-hire, minimising cost-per-hire and enhancing the candidate experience.
“Litmus has provided invaluable support and strategic guidance during a challenging period for our Trust, helping us to implement necessary changes without compromising workforce stability.
The results they have achieved are exceptional and demonstrate their ability to drive impactful operational change with care and realise significant cost savings”
CEO, Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust
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