Case Study: Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust improves KPI visibility and saves 6–8 days of data prep per month with Yellowfin

Empowering Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust to review and improve its performance, with enhanced reporting

Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust, which runs multiple hospitals and community services in the North East of England, faced bottlenecks in analytics and reporting: Cognos was difficult to use, QlikView was limited to finance, and analysts spent large amounts of time preparing mandated NHS KPIs (RTT, A&E waits, diagnostics, cancer waits) in Excel. The Trust’s Information and Development Manager sought a simpler, decentralised BI tool and selected Yellowfin to rationalise their BI estate and enable wider self-service reporting.

Yellowfin was implemented to centralise reporting, apply business rules, and decentralise report building; its metadata and presentation layers let users click through metrics to see patient-level detail (e.g., Estimated Date of Discharge) and automate previously manual workflows. The result: Yellowfin saved the Data Team approximately 6–8 days of data preparation per month, is accessed by over 100 internal users with content consumed by hundreds more via API, reduced administrative workload for analysts, and improved visibility and management of KPIs and clinical workflows across the Trust.

Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust

David Thompson

Information and Development Manager