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NHS Workforce Planning and Consulting

Medacs Healthcare works alongside NHS trusts and health boards to resolve the operational pressures that push up workforce costs and slow productivity across acute, mental health and community services.
Specialist advisor helping NHS teams address workforce challenges

Turning Workforce Strategy Into Operational Delivery

Medacs Healthcare helps NHS organisations reshape how their workforces are planned, deployed and managed. 

Our consultants work directly inside services, giving leaders the evidence to make confident decisions and operational teams the capacity to act on them. That blend of advice and delivery is what sets our approach apart from traditional consultancy.

As a long-standing NHS partner, Medacs Healthcare has the clinical, operational and system-wide understanding needed to plan more efficient ways to use NHS workforce capacity and deliver sustainable change.

Workforce planning and consulting services:

  • Strategic Workforce Planning
  • Clinical Job Planning
  • Demand and Capacity Modelling
  • Recruitment Efficiency Programmes
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Strategic Workforce Planning

Support to redesign workforce models and embed lasting organisational change.

Changing a long-established staffing model is one of the hardest things an NHS organisation can attempt.
 
Medacs Healthcare grounds every workforce plan with service-level data, risk profiling, demand and capacity modelling and rate benchmarking so decisions are made with confidence rather than assumption. 
 
We align plans to national policy and workforce trajectory targets, and stay involved throughout delivery. The result is a workforce model that controls cost while keeping services safely resourced to meet demand and protect patient care.
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NHS managers and consultants in a strategic planning discussion

Clinical Job Planning

Practical support to align all consultant job plans with service demand and clinical priorities

While NHS job planning best practice is well understood, effective implementation is increasingly compromised by clinical capacity constraints and system limitations. 

Bringing in external support means job planning gets done properly, meeting contractual expectations without adding to the pressure on internal teams.
 
Medacs Healthcare provides specialist teams with the experience to map planned care activity in line with NHS England's 10 step method and the 42 week framework, making sure consultant job plans are up to date, agreed, and properly matched to current levels of service demand. 
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Demand and Capacity Modelling

Predictive modelling that reflects how services actually behave.

Understanding demand and capacity is central to planning safe and effective services. Robust modelling means working across the whole planned care pathway, going beyond specialty level into sub-specialties and individual pathways.
 
We work with departmental teams and service leads to accurately measure demand, map patient flow and identify where capacity risks are building, then develop adaptable, predictive models that respond as service needs change. That detail gives you a realistic picture of what your workforce requires now and in the months ahead, underpinning safer rostering, better forward planning and more sustainable service delivery.
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Recruitment Efficiency Programmes

Faster, more effective hiring processes built around current and future demand.

Recruitment delays are rarely just an HR problem. Every unfilled post affects rotas, service delivery and temporary staffing spend.
 
Our analytical recruitment specialists review your end-to-end hiring process, pinpointing where delays, duplication and avoidable cost build up.
We then provide hands-on support to streamline pipelines, cut time-to-hire, lower cost-per-hire and improve the candidate experience. Sharpening the process helps you compete for scarce talent and reduce reliance on temporary cover. 

Medacs Healthcare also provides end-to-end Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) services, click below for more information
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Testimonials

What Our Customers Say

Feedback from NHS workforce leaders who have partnered with Medacs Healthcare 

Transformed every aspect of our temporary medical staffing and staff bank operations, from booking and administration right through to payroll and reporting. With their onsite support and systems, we’re now maximising our available workforce and have the granular data insights we need to make evidence-based decisions on rates and long-term recruitment strategies.

Cardiff and Vale University Health Board

Deputy Director of People and Culture

We now have a sustainable recruitment model and the right processes in place to ensure we continue to recruit the support workers we need to consistently deliver care in all our regional locations

CIC

CEO

Medacs have provided a high quality, consistent nursing workforce and the contract has allowed us to reduce our reliance on last minute shift demand therefore improving levels of patient care and stability on our wards. Medacs were able to increase their candidate pipeline from zero to fill 100% of the guaranteed volume demand over a 6 month period through targeted recruitment and facilitated increased training levels for staff. I have found Medacs to be responsive and creative in supporting our ongoing staffing needs and feedback from ward managers has been very positive.

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust

Deputy Director of Quality and Workforce Transformation

Medacs Healthcare has supported the Trust to transform our approach to temporary staffing. A key priority for the Trust is safeguarding quality standards and the safe delivery of patient care. Our partnership has allowed us to maintain our focus on quality and safety whilst reducing costs and achieving a consistently high fill rate

Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust

HR Business Partner

Upgrading to a Managed Service has almost doubled our nursing fill and delivered impressive cost savings in less than 12 months. Medacs Healthcare’s onsite team are like a seamless extension of our own teams and have really improved the communication between different divisions, giving us the rota control we needed and a much more accurate understanding of our true nursing staffing needs.

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Workforce Education and Strategy Director

Rate reductions have resulted in significant savings over the past 12 months, 38% higher than planned, a really good achievement

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Assistant Finance Director

Medacs has really helped us to improve our staffing operations, consistently providing insight and enabling our delivery of savings, excellent fill rates and 100% DE efficiency on these fill rates year on year. They have provided insight and expertise to support us in our transition to manage our supplementary staffing operations moving forward, for which we are extremely grateful. 

NHS Highland

Workforce Director


Medacs OOH team is so responsive and helpful. They always listen, respond and work hard to solve any staffing issues that arise. I have been impressed by their professionalism and their commitment to try and respond to any challenges they are presented with. No matter what your issue is they always make you feel supported and I have no hesitation in recommending the service they provide.

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust

Senior Clinical Lead

We trust Medacs Healthcare implicitly to efficiently oversee our temporary staffing operations, over the past few years they have reliably maintained fill and consistently delivered savings.

Swansea Bay University Health Board

Assistant Director - Workforce & OD

 

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