The people at the heart of health and care
A specialist consultancy for population health, workforce and transformation. Three disciplines, one method, applied to the human dimensions of every service - the people who receive care, the people who provide it, and the systems that hold them together.
Three practice areas, one method
Health services live or die on the people who move through them and the systems that connect them. Health Dynamics is built around three specialisms that between them cover every dimension of that change - deployed alone or together, depending on what the problem asks of us.
Population health
We help systems understand the populations they serve, act on the inequalities that shape their outcomes, and design services that respond to real need. From population health management and analytics through to service redesign, prevention and value-based care.
Explore population healthWorkforce
We help organisations design, plan and lead the workforce change that makes services sustainable, from board-level workforce strategy and rigorous workforce planning through to organisational development, capability building and practitioner-led training.
Explore workforceTransformation
We lead the major programmes that reshape services at scale, as PMO, programme director, or independent assurance. Service reconfigurations, new hospital builds, group models, mergers and target operating models - delivered end to end, with the workforce and OD dimensions built in from day one.
Explore transformationBecause health is never static
Populations grow, age and change in ways that reshape demand. The workforce grows, shrinks and re-skills in ways that reshape supply. Services are reconfigured, integrated, merged and rebuilt to respond. The interplay of those three dynamics - patient, workforce and system - is what ultimately determines whether change actually lands. That interplay is our specialism.
- We work across the full spectrum. From a one-week diagnostic to a multi-year transformation programme, we size the engagement to the problem, not to a methodology.
- We leave organisations more capable. Our consultants are senior practitioners who have run the functions and programmes they now advise. We transfer capability rather than dependency.
- We are independent. We are not owned by, or tied to, any consultancy, technology vendor or recruiter. Our advice is exactly that: advice.
Considered work, delivered at pace
Whether the brief is a two-week diagnostic or a multi-year transformation programme, we bring the same disciplines to it: careful analysis, senior experience, and a considered focus on leaving each organisation more capable than we found it.
Across the health and care system
- NHS acute trusts
- Mental health trusts
- Community services
- Ambulance trusts
- Integrated care boards
- Primary care networks
- Local authorities
- Adult social care
- VCSE partners
- Independent providers
Clients we have worked with
A selection of the NHS trusts, integrated care systems, national bodies and social care partners who have engaged us on their workforce and transformation programmes.
What clients say
A small selection of comments from senior clients across primary care, integrated care systems, and national workforce programmes.
Alison demonstrated an outstanding ability to understand how the partnership was working and steer the programme rapidly to enable us to achieve the results that were urgently needed.
The 10 year demand and supply model provides a very useful evidence base to support the work programme to deliver more effective local career pathways into nursing. I would like to thank you for the extensive research, facilitation and analysis that you have undertaken.
They showed that they understood the nuance of decision making in primary care and in medicine more generally, which does not always easily match the more binary processes of establishing pathways and contracts. For this reason, they established a high level of trust with the other clinicians who worked with them.
Invaluable in the work across the BOB Integrated Care System as it formed. The system needed population-based workforce modelling to support workforce and education spend decisions. They developed the programme of work from the ground up and delivered on time and to cost.
Tell us what you're working on
Whether you'd like a considered second opinion on a difficult question, or a partner to lead an entire programme, we're happy to talk. Most of our engagements begin with a thirty-minute conversation - free, informal, and without obligation.