Tailored Data Cuts
From our annual and monthly collections, the NHS Benchmarking Network are able to provide bespoke, benchmarked data cuts and expertise to inform decision making around core challenges facing all health and care systems.
We are able to use this data to provide insight, pose questions and draw conclusions to support decision making, strategic planning and service development. We already possess much of the data that will be of interest to organisations and this can be used to better understand a number of issues including demand and capacity to better understand service and workforce modelling, organisational baselines, health inequality data, productivity and financial sustainability.
Service Overview
This product offers organisations a clear, data-driven overview of current demand and capacity across health and care services. In the context of constantly evolving service models, it enables organisations to assess their current position against a robust national dataset, identifying key areas of variation and potential improvement. With nearly 30 years of expertise, the NHS Benchmarking Network translates complex data into accessible insights, supporting informed conversations across all levels of an organisation.
The benchmarked data provides a valuable national context, helping teams explore strategic questions around service delivery and resourcing. By using this tool, organisations can develop a strong evidence base to support local prioritisation, enhance system-wide planning, and drive sustainable change.
The service models of health systems across the country are ever shifting, in response to this the NHS Benchmarking Network is able to support organisations to better understand their current position in comparison to the backdrop of our full sample data submitted by members nationally. We are able to provide this insight alongside the additional context of the national picture with benchmarked data provided to support in answering the question: where are our opportunities for improvement?
With almost 30 years of experience, the NHS Benchmarking Network are well versed in supporting this dialogue within organisations. We turn data into insight and challenge teams in their thinking by presenting the data in a way that all colleagues, irrespective of discipline, can understand which when harnessed in the right way leads to buy in from the ground up.
Working with the NHS Benchmarking Network, clients can build on this baseline to support local prioritisation and answer additional strategic questions including those more complicated resourcing questions.
Organisational Baselines
Specialist Data Cuts
The NHS Benchmarking Network holds key information covering a variety of topics of national interest covering both the physical and mental health sectors of the NHS. Using our specialist benchmarking technology, we can provide cuts of the data to offer insight to organisations or collaboratives across the full scope of services. Be this an ICB trying to better understand their providers service delivery, a devolved nation or geographical region looking to drive strategic improvement or a provider collaborative trying to better understand service provision across their patch.
Our team are well placed at working with organisations across all four nations, to provide detailed data illustrations alongside support interpreting and gleaning insight from this. Often, without additional data burden to providers.
Working with the NHS Benchmarking Network, clients can build on this data breakdown to inform forward planning across a variety of areas including activity, access, waiting times/lists, finances, workforce and patient safety.
Time Series Views
Having been operating for close to 30 years, the NHS Benchmarking Network holds data from a variety of providers across the country focused on a variety of services – in some instances dating back over ten years.
We have worked with a number of organisations to support their understanding in how their position has shifted over time periods. This can support organisations in understanding the impact that changes to their population, workforce profile or delivery mechanisms have had on their wider performance and is of particular use to organisations that have undergone much change in the recent past.
For a number of our data sets, we are uniquely placed to offer this level of insight to organisations that have membership of the network and have flexibility in how this is presented to clients.
Data Deep Dives
The NHS Benchmarking Network are able to harness the information gathered through our members programme, to carry out data deep dives. These consist of a thorough analysis of key metrics to uncover trends, patterns, and anomalies within around a given theme, policy or key line of enquiry. By examining historical performance, segment-level insights, and outliers, we can support organisations in identifying actionable opportunities for improvement and strategic decision-making. The analysis can be used to better understand strengths to build on and areas requiring attention, providing a data-driven foundation for next steps to support wider decision making.
Some examples of how these can be used are set out below:
State of the Nation Style Outputs
Policy adoption or adherence measures
Reports to support research findings or questions
Demand and Capacity Reviews
Health Inequalities
Using a combination of member data, alongside publicly available data visible via our National Indicators tool, the NHS Benchmarking Network can provide key insights that can be used as a practical tool tool for organisations aiming to strengthen their understanding of, and approach to, population health.
We can support organisations, regions, collaboratives, local authorities or agencies in establishing a baseline population health position and helps organisations leverage national datasets to adopt a proactive, data-driven approach to commissioning, service design, and system development
This product provides organisations with a forward-looking view of population trends to support strategic planning and service development. Using nationally sourced population projection data, it enables users to explore expected demographic shifts across geographies and population groups. The output helps identify future demand pressures, inform workforce and capacity planning, and guide long-term commissioning decisions. By offering clear, visualised insights, it empowers organisations to take a proactive, data-driven approach to shaping services around the evolving needs of their communities.
Population Projections
How can we deliver this?
Benchmarking Reports
System Briefings
Who can we deliver this to?
Members
Non-members
