Case Study: North West London Collaborative Staff Bank achieves ICS-wide workforce deployment and cost avoidance with Patchwork Health

North West London Collaborative Staff Bank fills 4,300+ shifts in 2 years with Patchwork Health

The North West London Collaborative Staff Bank, a partnership of four NHS Trusts, faced significant workforce challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic. These included an inability to deploy clinicians across the region to meet surging demand, rising agency costs, and time-consuming onboarding processes for their local staff banks. They partnered with Patchwork Health to implement a collaborative staffing solution to address these issues.

Patchwork Health delivered a fully digitized platform that created a shared staff bank for the region. The solution enabled over 6,000 medics and 20,000 nurses to work across all participating sites without duplicate onboarding. The results included a 320% increase in the medical workforce, over 4,300 shifts worked, and £9.5 million in cost avoidance over two years, while also providing clinicians with greater flexible working opportunities.