Case studies

February 2026

Introduction Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust (MFT) commissioned the NHS Transformation Unit (TU) to support the implementation of community diagnostic services across Manchester and Trafford. Whilst neighbouring localities, the demographic profiles look quite different. Manchester is more densely populated and…

January 2026

Overview The Director of Capital, Estates and Facilities at Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust (GMMH) commissioned the Transformation Unit to conduct a Gateway 5 Review of North View – a newly built, 150-room adult mental health inpatient hospital. This £105.9 million capital…

January 2026

Case Study The South London Mental Health and Community Partnership (SLP) is a collaborative of Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust. Together, these trusts…

September 2025

The Horizon Scanning, Demand Signalling, Innovation and Business Development (HSDS IBD) team sits within the Transformation Directorate at NHS England (NHSE). The team provides expertise and support to clinical policy teams within NHSE. By identifying research and innovation opportunities across…

June 2025

We provided programme leadership to support the development and successful implementation of the Rapid Access to Valve Assessment (RAVA) pathway for patients from across the Greater Manchester (GM) region enabling them to receive more timely access to care and treatment…

June 2025

The NHS Transformation Unit (TU) supported Greater Manchester (GM) People Services to develop a Project Initiation Document (PID) to explore the potential for a collaborative model for transactional People Services across GM. The Challenge Collaboration in corporate services, particularly People…

April 2025

The NHS Transformation Unit (TU) supported Bolton NHS Foundation Trust (BFT) and Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (WWL) to comprehensively review their people services functions. This led to the production of a Project Initiation Document (PID)…

April 2025

The NHS Transformation Unit (TU) supported the Urology Clinical Network in Lancashire & South Cumbria (L&SC) to develop a comprehensive case for change in specialised cancer surgery and sub-speciality Urology. Our role was to provide pragmatic senior programme management support…

January 2025

Cheshire and Merseyside Cancer Alliance (CMCA) commissioned the NHS Transformation Unit (TU) to deliver two products to help with the challenges they were facing in their current hysteroscopy pathway. The TU’s task was to deliver two key solutions: a toolkit…

November 2024

e-RS is a national platform used to refer patients from primary care to secondary care services, allowing patients to choose their first outpatient hospital or clinic appointment and book it in the GP surgery, online or on the phone. The…

November 2024

The Lung Health Check programme aims to find lung cancer earlier, before symptoms start to show, and will therefore enable earlier diagnosis and treatment.   By 2029, all patients with a smoking history will be invited for a Lung Health…

November 2024

The NHS Transformation Unit (TU) were commissioned to provide support to the Cheshire and Merseyside Pathology Network (CMPN) between May 2023 and September 2024 to oversee and lead the CMPN Digital workstream. The workstream comprised of two major programmes:  Laboratory…