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October 2025

Thursday 12 September marks the second annual ‘End Digital Poverty Day’, a day of awareness for digital exclusion and poverty initiated and hosted by the Digital Poverty Alliance (DPA). Established in September 2023, the day sees individuals and organisations come…

August 2025

TU Talks is a series of bitesize videos exploring a range of key challenges facing the NHS. We offer practical insights, tools and approaches to empower change from within. Our first episode, Understanding Demand for Lung Health Checks, is hosted…

July 2025

By Jo Gibson – Strategic Lead for Business Cases at the TU If you’ve ever found yourself wondering whether to develop a Programme Business Case (PBC) or follow the more familiar Strategic Outline Case (SOC), Outline Business Case (OBC), and…

July 2025

Introduction Addressing staff sickness absence rates will be critical to ensuring that the ambitions of the NHS ten-year plan can be delivered. Simply put, without a healthy and available workforce, the NHS can’t deliver safe, quality and effective care for…

July 2024

When we think of a business case, it’s easy to imagine it as a finished product – a polished document meticulously crafted to persuade decision-makers. However, it’s important to recognise that the development of a business case is not just…

June 2024

It’s certainly important to us at the NHS Transformation Unit (TU). As an organisation that embeds a continuous improvement approach, we recognise that through a good feedback process, we can improve the work that we do and the products that…

May 2024

In her last news and views article, Dianna introduced herself as Workforce Offer Lead at the TU and talked about the importance of workforce in the work we carry out for our clients. This article expands on the methodology that…

April 2024

Dianna has recently taken on the role of our Workforce Offer Lead. Here, Dianna Introduces the TU workforce offer and talks about the importance of workforce in the work that we carry out for our clients. Workforce Planning “Effective system-level…

April 2024

In my last news and views article, I talked about what clinical redesign and transformation is at the TU and how we support our clients to undertake redesign. I also highlighted some of the work that we have done previously.…

February 2024

Summary The Elective Waiting List across England has seen unprecedented growth since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Patients are waiting longer than ever for their treatment to start. The NHS has focused on eradicating the longest waiting times with…

December 2023

Active Hospitals shortlisted for 2024 HSJ Partnership Awards Most Impactful Partnership in Preventative Healthcare NHS Transformation Unit, the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID) and Sport England are delighted to announce that Phase 2 of the Active Hospitals project…

December 2023

NHS Transformation Unit and Lancashire and South Cumbria ICB shortlisted for 2024 HSJ Partnership Awards recognising the most effective collaborations with the NHS NHS Transformation Unit and Lancashire and South Cumbria ICB are delighted to announce that the Lancashire and…

August 2023

Introducing our new Lead for Business Cases OK, so you want to make a change, but how do you convince the right people to invest in your idea? How do you get agreement to the change that you are proposing,…

June 2023

We have worked with our colleagues at Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit (@NHS ML) to launch our offer to help organisations respond to financial challenges. We understand the challenges you are facing. Now, more than ever, it is essential…

January 2023

How we are supporting Clinical Redesign and Transformation for Health and Care Clinical redesign and transformation relates to the transformation of services, utilising the perspectives of health and care professionals, patients and carers to consider the best ways to achieve…

December 2022

How we are supporting management of health and care transformation programmes Effective programme and project management is key to successful delivery of transformational change to provide better care for patients. Whether it’s a whole system transformation agenda, a portfolio of…

October 2022

How we support the production of robust business cases With increasingly squeezed health and care budgets, it is vital that leaders make value for money investment decisions informed by robust business cases. Transformation of health and care services often requires…