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24th December 2024

How we can support you with strategy development

At the NHS Transformation Unit (TU), we work collaboratively with clients across the NHS and healthcare sector to identify, shape, and deliver strategies that are evidence-based, actionable, and designed to make a real difference for your targeted area of impact.

Our experience spans single clinical or corporate service strategies through to national, multi-organisational, cross-sector system strategies, and our approach always ensures extensive engagement and consultation with a wide range of stakeholders.

Whether you require additional light-touch advisory support, hands-on specialist expertise, or just an independent credible broker – we at the TU can help.

We understand that every client has different capacity, experience, and needs, so we offer flexible, tiered support:

1. Light-Touch Advisory

  • For organisations with internal teams who need expert validation, strategic guidance, or a critical friend perspective.
  • TU shapes strategies that are robust, evidence-based, and aligned with system priorities without duplicating existing work.

2. Core Co-Delivery

  • The classic TU model, working in full partnership to co-develop your strategy.
  • Includes discovery, stakeholder engagement, prioritisation, drafting, and visualisation, leveraging our methodology, experience, and NHS credibility.
  • TU acts as an honest broker, facilitating input from multiple stakeholders and translating complex thinking into clear, deliverable outputs.

3. End-to-End Delivery

  • An enhanced, holistic model combining full strategy development with implementation planning, PMO setup, governance frameworks, and monitoring plans.
  • Ideal for multi-organisational or ICS-wide programmes, resulting in strategies are fully actionable and system-wide.

Integrated Care System development plan authorship

Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin (STW) Integrated Care System serves a population of around half a million people and consists of 5 NHS Trusts, 2 Local Authorities and 8 Primary Care…

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Our Approach

  1. Discovery & Insight Gathering
    1. Structured review of current best practice and insights from similar areas/ organisations.
    2. Capturing critical stakeholder feedback through interviews, workshops, and surveys
    3. Analysis of data and policy to identify key challenges and opportunities
  2. Develop & Refine Priorities
    1. Co‑develop the strategic vision and purpose that will anchor and guide the strategy
    2. Draft strategic priorities based on insights from discovery.
    3. Actively involve stakeholders through structured engagement to test, refine, and build local ownership of the priorities
  3. Drafting & Visualisation
    1. Produce engaging outputs, including visuals and infographics
    2. Align documents with local style conventions and stakeholder expectations
    3. Optionally include implementation roadmaps and governance frameworks
  4. Collaborative Delivery & Validation
    1. Regular reporting to SROs or steering groups
    2. Ensure strategies are feasible, actionable, and aligned to system priorities

Additional Ways We Can Support

Our Strategy Development work can be strengthened further through integration with our wider portfolio, including:

  • Digital Transformation: technology, AI, and system‑wide digital solutions
  • Analytics & Data: population health insight, performance metrics, and financial modelling
  • Workforce: planning, development, and optimisation
  • Operational Improvement & Productivity: service redesign and efficiency
  • Estates & Infrastructure: aligning strategy to estate utilisation
  • Engagement & Communications: co‑design and stakeholder mobilisation
  • Leadership & Culture: organisational readiness and embedding change
  • Commercial: identifying commercial opportunities and investment options

By drawing on these capabilities, strategies become richer, more evidence‑based, and fully aligned to system‑wide priorities, with the supporting analysis, impact assessment, and business cases needed for successful implementation.

Why Work With TU?

  • NHS-embedded expertise: deep understanding of the system and operational realities
  • Breadth and depth of capability: strategy, workforce, digital, population health, culture, and operational delivery
  • Co-designed, evidence-based: strategies built through inclusive engagement, data, and policy insight
  • Flexible, scalable support: from light-touch advisory to full end-to-end delivery
  • Practical impact: strategies that deliver measurable change and real benefit to patients and populations

Whether you need strategic validation, co-development, or full end-to-end delivery, TU provides a trusted, pragmatic, and system-wide partnership, bridging the gap between strategy design and real-world implementation.