About Litmus

What sets us apart?

We don’t impose new systems – we optimise your people, processes and existing technology to build stronger, more cost-effective workforces.

People, process and technology

GUARANTEED FILL RATES

95%

100% OF CLIENTS RATE US

Excellent

STAFFING SUPPORT

24/7

TYPICAL SAVINGS UP TO

30%

Our people underpin everything we do. We work hand-in-hand with our partners, typically with a dedicated onsite resource, delivering results as one joined-up team.

We bring deep expertise in change management, candidate attraction and engagement, helping to navigate complex transitions while keeping staff supported and services running.

We shape our solutions to meet your specific needs, with flexible procurement and implementation options designed to get the right support in place quickly.

  • People

    We bring the right expertise

  • Process

    We fix what’s not working

  • Technology

    We optimise what you have

  • Delivery

    We embed within your teams

Our expertise

Our Expertise – Key People

Mick Whitley – Chief Commercial Officer

Mick is highly experienced with a thorough understanding of international health and staffing markets, gained through 20 years in strategic roles for some of the world’s largest healthcare staffing companies.

Helen Kelly – Managing Director

With 17 years of Director-level healthcare experience, Helen is  responsible for ensuring the efficient delivery of our workforce solutions and the realisation of ongoing benefits for over 50 UK clients.

Kelly Lyon – Director of Workforce Solutions

Kelly has 12 years of experience delivering NHS workforce management solutions. Her ability to strategically lead and drive operational improvement and system redesign programs is proven, consistently resulting in lasting workforce benefits for our partners.

Laura O’Meara – Director of Workforce Solutions

With a proven reputation for achieving process efficiencies, Laura has over 20 years of healthcare staffing and operational management experience. She recently managed the UK’s largest ever healthcare MSP contract with the UKHSA.

Sue Ainley – Director of Customer Marketing 

With over 25 years of marketing experience, Sue is competent at designing and implementing innovative candidate attraction and engagement strategies to support our clients to safeguard the delivery of care.

Rachael Mullen – Head of Implementation 

Rachael is a qualified Prince2 Practitioner with over 15 years experience overseeing large scale implementations and managing the critical organisational changes needed to transform the utilisation of healthcare workforces.

Nick Dacres – Workforce Development Manager

As an experienced Staff Bank specialist, Nick is skilled at supporting NHS employers to reduce agency spending and develop and optimise their use of local and regional flexible workforce resource pools. 

Luke Byers – Business Performance Manager

With over 10 years of healthcare industry experience, Luke is skilled at collaborating with our extensive network of suppliers and analysing operational performance to ensure quality and safety levels are consistently maintained.

Our expertise

Our Expertise – Key People

Mick Whitley

Mick Whitley

Chief Commercial Officer

Mick is highly experienced with a thorough understanding of international health and staffing markets, gained through 20 years in strategic roles for some of the world’s largest healthcare staffing companies.

Helen Kelly

Helen Kelly

Managing Director

With 17 years of Director-level healthcare experience, Helen is responsible for ensuring the efficient delivery of our workforce solutions and the realisation of ongoing benefits for over 50 UK clients.

Kelly Lyon

Kelly Lyon

Director of Workforce Solutions

Kelly has 12 years of experience delivering NHS workforce management solutions. Her ability to strategically lead and drive operational improvement and system redesign programs is proven, consistently resulting in lasting workforce benefits for our partners.

Laura O’Meara

Laura O’Meara

Director of Workforce Solutions

With a proven reputation for achieving process efficiencies, Laura has over 20 years of healthcare staffing and operational management experience. She recently managed the UK’s largest ever healthcare MSP contract with the UKHSA.

Sue Ainley

Sue Ainley

Director of Customer Marketing

With over 25 years of marketing experience, Sue is competent at designing and implementing innovative candidate attraction and engagement strategies to support our clients to safeguard the delivery of care.

Rachael Mullen

Rachael Mullen

Head of Implementation

Rachael is a qualified Prince2 Practitioner with over 15 years experience overseeing large scale implementations and managing the critical organisational changes needed to transform the utilisation of healthcare workforces.

Nick Dacres

Nick Dacres

Workforce Development Manager

As an experienced Staff Bank specialist, Nick is skilled at supporting NHS employers to reduce agency spending and develop and optimise their use of local and regional flexible workforce resource pools.

Luke Byers

Luke Byers

Business Performance Manager

With over 10 years of healthcare industry experience, Luke is skilled at collaborating with our extensive network of suppliers and analysing operational performance to ensure quality and safety levels are consistently maintained.

The Litmus team have transformed our approach to temporary staffing, delivering significant savings and substantially reducing rates whilst achieving a consistently high fill rate of over 97%

Director of HR and OD

The Litmus team have transformed our approach to temporary staffing, delivering significant savings and substantially reducing rates whilst achieving a consistently high fill rate of over 97%

Director of HR and OD

Process

Our Process

Litmus teams are skilled at streamlining operations and driving efficiencies across all departments, delivering savings with robust policies and stringent rate control.

Flexibility

Flexibility

Our process is specifically tailored to your requirements. We consider the entire end-to-end process, using both high-level data insights and an understanding of individual quirks at department level to inform the plan.

Change management

Change management

We place a great deal of emphasis on change management and implementation, taking the time to assess and review current ways of working and provide the right levels of support to embed new processes across the complete user chain.

Improved efficiency

Improved efficiency

At the core of our process approach is efficiency. Over the years we have worked closely with our clients to refine the delivery of our solutions, ensuring efficiency across all measures; people, spend, technology.

Evolve and improve

Evolve and improve

We practice what we preach and are always looking for ways to improve the solution to provide further efficiencies and cost-savings for our clients.

“Really helped us to improve our staffing operations, consistently providing insight, excellent fill rates and 100% DE efficiency year on year

– Director of Workforce

Technology

Technology

We take a uniquely flexible approach to the way we use technology to support the delivery of our healthcare staffing solutions.

We put the needs of our healthcare customers first, ensuring that whatever technology solution is needed, operational change is managed carefully, and disruption is minimised.

We will underpin our people-led solutions with your technology of choice.

Our teams have specialist training on a wide range of rostering and staffing systems and apps. We’re accustomed to wrapping our people and processes around third-party systems, particularly in NHS settings. We’re also experienced at implementing collaborative technology solutions, where apps and systems are needed to harmonize rates across linked regional organisations or services.

Where something doesn’t exist, or a bespoke configuration is required, we can build bespoke APIs and leverage our strategic partnership agreements with key healthcare technology suppliers.

Whatever your system of choice , Litmus will ensure that the technology supports the best possible experience for bank workers, operational teams and managers, with accessible mobile apps to facilitate shift notifications, skills mapping, self-booking, and timesheeting.

Our specialist data analytics teams will also configure reports and generate the insights needed to accurately predict demand and align staffing levels.

Monthly reports are built to match NHSE reporting requirements as standard, with drill-down functionality to facilitate more bespoke and detailed data reporting needs.

A finalist in two categories in the HSJ Partnership Awards

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