Siloed Planning
Teams operate based on professions, isolated from each other. Plans are influenced by subjective experience, not connected evidence across clinical, financial, and people data.
Workforce Analytics
Your workforce planning is built on headcount. It should be built on human stories.
Traditional workforce planning treats staff as interchangeable units — bands, rotas, vacancy rates. It misses why people leave, what drives burnout, and where interventions actually work.
Workforce Decision Intelligence changes this. We segment your workforce by needs, behaviours, and motivations — then design interventions that stick.
Proven at
University Hospitals of Liverpool Group
Alder Hey Children’s NHS FT
The Problem
Three failures of traditional workforce planning.
Healthcare organisations keep applying the same planning methods and expecting different results. WDI addresses the root causes.
No Transparency
Little understanding of whether past interventions actually improved quality, productivity, or wellbeing. Money is spent on retention initiatives with no evidence of impact.
Narrow Focus
Interventions are abstract and lack a holistic view. Staff are treated as “bands” and “headcount” — missing the human needs and motivations that drive behaviour, retention, and performance.
WDI Segmentation Framework · Needs, Behaviours & Motivations
The WDI Approach
Connecting the human stories behind the data.
Behavioural Segmentation
We segment your workforce by needs, behaviours, and motivations — not just roles, bands, and functions. Using existing operational data and staff surveys to uncover patterns no spreadsheet can reveal.
Integrated Intelligence
WDI aligns clinical, performance, workforce, and finance data into a single evidence base. No more siloed planning — one version of the truth connecting people strategy to patient outcomes.
Precise Interventions
Instead of abstract retention programmes, WDI identifies exactly where to intervene — which segments, which divisions, which shift patterns — for maximum impact on wellbeing and productivity.
Capability, Not Dependency
We build your team’s ability to use data for everyday decisions. The platform is designed to make your organisation self-reliant — not reliant on consultants.
Coming Soon
SIA for Workforce. Ask your data anything.
SIA (Strasys Intelligence Agent) is coming to Workforce Decision Intelligence. The same conversational AI that powers MIA in the Maternity Index — where it’s already live — will extend to workforce analytics. Ask questions like “Why is turnover rising in Band 5 nurses?” and get AI-generated explanations grounded in your trust’s actual data.
Ask questions in natural language
Understand why metrics are moving
Get suggested interventions
Compare against peer trusts
Already live as MIA in the Strasys Maternity Index
“I don’t know any CFO who wouldn’t be interested in this work, which has a potential 9% recurrent savings. An unbelievable return on investment. It’s a no-brainer.”
James Dawson
Deputy Director of People, UHLG
“This is the first time in my 20+ years at the Trust that we are really getting to understand our staff. This is so much more effective than the typical soulless top-down management by numbers.”
Staff Member
University Hospitals of Liverpool Group
“We are empowering colleagues with interconnected insights to grasp the changing workforce dynamics and plan more precise interventions, ensuring happier staff, better patient care, and an adaptable and ready-for-the-future healthcare system.”
Pip Gaskell
Director of People, UHLG
“Through WDI, we’ve been able to align our People Plan not just with organisational objectives but also with what matters most to our workforce. The impact is already showing.”
Melissa Swindell
Chief People Officer, Alder Hey Children’s NHS FT
Proven Outcomes
What WDI delivered at UHLG.
University Hospitals of Liverpool Group used WDI to transform strategic workforce planning. The segmentation approach identified millions in savings, improved engagement, and aligned the People Plan with what staff actually need — not what leadership assumed they needed.
Source: Strasys WDI deployment at University Hospitals of Liverpool Group
Built for leaders responsible for people, performance, and cost.
Chief People Officers
Build a People Plan grounded in evidence — aligning workforce strategy with what staff actually need, not what you assume they need.
CFOs / Finance Directors
Identify the 9% recurrent savings hiding in workforce friction — agency dependency, shift-pattern waste, and retention failure.
COOs / Clinical Leads
Connect workforce data to service delivery — understanding how staffing patterns drive clinical outcomes and patient experience.
ICS / System Leaders
Plan workforce at system level — understanding how staff move between providers and where collaborative interventions create shared value.
Questions we’re asked.
- What is Workforce Decision Intelligence?
- WDI is a segmentation and analytics platform that uses AI and simulation methods to understand NHS workforce needs, behaviours, and motivations. Unlike traditional planning based on headcount and vacancy rates, WDI maps the human stories behind the data — enabling precise interventions for retention, productivity, and wellbeing.
- How is this different from e-rostering or traditional workforce tools?
- E-rostering systems manage shifts. WDI manages the decisions behind shifts — why staff leave, what drives burnout, where interventions work, and how to connect people strategy to patient outcomes. It integrates clinical, performance, workforce, and finance data into a single evidence base that traditional rostering tools never touch.
- What outcomes has WDI delivered?
- At University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, WDI identified a potential 9% recurrent savings — described by the Deputy Director of People as “an unbelievable return on investment.” The work was shortlisted for the HSJ Partnership Award for innovation in workforce planning. At Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust, WDI improved retention, productivity, and staff wellbeing through unique workforce insights.
- What is SIA for Workforce?
- SIA (Strasys Intelligence Agent) for Workforce is an upcoming conversational AI agent that will let leaders ask natural language questions about their workforce data and receive AI-generated explanations, peer comparisons, and suggested interventions. SIA is already live in maternity as MIA (Maternity Intelligence Agent) and will extend to workforce analytics.
- Do we need to give you access to patient data?
- No. WDI works with your operational and workforce data — payroll, establishment, staff surveys, performance metrics. All data is processed within sovereign UK data environments, IG Toolkit compliant, and aligned to DCB0129/0160 clinical safety standards.
Go Deeper
Browse The Hub
Explore workforce intelligence.
Impact Story
Building a modern, motivated workforce at UHLG.
How University Hospitals of Liverpool transformed strategic workforce planning, identified millions in savings, and created better engagement.
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Case Study
Case Study
Unlocking staff potential at Alder Hey Children’s NHS FT.
How unique workforce data and insights improved retention, productivity, and staff wellbeing.
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Case Study
Webinar
Thinking Differently: Tackling the productivity challenge.
New approaches to closing the performance gap — with international perspectives.
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Strasys Insights Team
Panel Discussion
Stop planning around headcount. Start planning around humans.
A short conversation can show you what your workforce data reveals when you look at it differently. No forms. No sales pitch. Just evidence.
Clinically Safe. NHS Compliant.
Sovereign UK Data
IG Toolkit Compliant
DCB0129/0160 Aligned