The NHS 10 Year Health Plan is clear: every organisation needs to deliver 2% productivity growth, year on year, with a workforce that's digitally confident and ready to use data and AI.
But across the NHS, teams are working with more data than ever. But day to day, the same challenges persist:
- Reporting takes too long
- Insight arrives too late
- Capacity is stretched across manual processes
These aren't data problems. They're capability problems, and they're solvable.
Across NHS organisations, teams are already showing what's possible:
- 9 hours a week saved per person - around a quarter of a full-time role, given back
- Reporting cycles cut from days to under an hour
- Incident reviews reduced from 12 hours to under 2
- Patient backlogs cut from 25 to 1 in nine months
- £2m forecast savings in medicines spend, in a single Trust
Our 2026 NHS Data Impact Report shows what happens when NHS teams build data confidence and apply it to real work - unlocking capacity, sharpening decisions and easing pressure across services. And it's built through the Growth and Skills Levy: a funded route to build capability at scale, without adding to budget pressure.
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"The programme transformed how I work. I automated manual reporting, built our first Power BI dashboard and a Power App, that cut assessment waits from 25 patients to just 1 in nine months, saving hours every week and massively improving data management."
