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Consultancy

With eight regional teams, we have over 130 consultants with substantial experience across multiple sectors, including health, social care, justice and education. Our expert senior leadership team has a wealth of experience, gained in the NHS, government and private consultancy firms. 

We were the first public sector organisation to achieve Chartered Management Consultant accreditation from the Chartered Management Institute. We were also the first public sector consultancy to achieve membership to the MCA. 

Our offer

Our Consultancy team has eight key specialisms. By working as a fully integrated team, the services, support and solutions we offer uniquely complement and enhance one other. This core strength is vital for offering the very best outcomes to providers and patients.

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The benefits

  • We are a trusted expert, sharing your vision and goals. We aim to relieve pressure by saving your time. 
  • Our innovative and collaborative approach allows us to work with teams to design and create solutions for the most complex systems and structures. 
  • Our unique insight: our blended consultancy and NHS expertise helps you to achieve greater organisational value, in line with NHS values and behaviours 
  • Our core values: we embody NHS values in the way we work and have a wealth of health and social care knowledge, effectively and efficiently supporting clients to achieve the best possible outcomes 
  • Our competitive pricing: we provide a high value alternative to the private sector through competitive prices combined with specialist consultancy skills, allowing us to effectively compete on value, innovation and impact. 

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Case studies

New NHS England Programme

New NHS England Programme

Having successfully supported the safe and effective legal merger of former NHS England (NHSE) with NHS Digital and Health Education, NECS was commissioned to enable the new NHSE structure.

Bury Hospice transformation

Bury Hospice transformation

The challenge Bury Hospice’s vision is to ensure all patients and families in the locality receive compassionate and outstanding palliative and end of life care. To realise this vision, the hospice developed a portfolio of transformation work and commissioned NECS...

NHSE&I East Vaccination Programme

NHSE&I East Vaccination Programme

The challenge NECS was brought in to help ensure there was sufficient workforce across the East region to deliver the COVID-19 and Flu Vaccination Programme. This included an ambitious retention programme which aimed to retain all the volunteers and temporary staff...

NHSE Midlands Elective recovery

NHSE Midlands Elective recovery

The challenge An NHS England and Improvement (NHSE/I) review in July 2021, highlighted that if no intervention or action was taken by March 2022, 51,568 patients within the Midlands would be waiting over 104 weeks (104+) for their elective surgery. Pressure on the...

JUCD Workforce Development plan

JUCD Workforce Development plan

The challenge Joined up Care Derbyshire (JUCD), the Integrated Care System (ICS) for Derbyshire, had 11 teams of Business Intelligence (BI) professionals spread across the organisations that formed part of the ICS.  JUCD wished to develop a hybrid BI function to...

NICE strategy review

NICE strategy review

The challenge NICE developed its current Implementation Strategy in 2017 to support the effective use of NICE guidance and standards. NICE wished to publish its new Implementation Strategy in December 2021, to support the delivery of strategic Pillar Three 'Effective...