The SDM Platform | Staffing Science SoftwareThe SDM Platform
Software that gives NHS services an ongoing view of their service delivery mix and access to the levers of cost reduction.
SDM Platform modules
Six connected modules that work together to help you manage, plan and control your service delivery performance and cost with confidence.
1SDM Insight
Monthly visibility of service delivery mix, activity fingerprints and cost pressure.
- Activity and cost fingerprints
- Drill down by demand type
- Identify cost and delivery pressure
- Track improvement commentary
Provides: ongoing service delivery mix management
2Outsourcing Manager
Control outsourced spend and understand provider cost performance.
- Invoice assurance controls
- Compare current provider costs
- Understand net contribution
- Identify overcharging or cost variation
Provides: managing outsourcing, insourcing and provider spend
3Income Assurance
Reconcile activity to income and identify under-recognised value.
- Pull activity data together
- Run different levels of income reconciliation
- Identify missing or under-recognised income
- Support ongoing income assurance
Provides: services with income complexity or tariff risk
4WLI Manager
Manage internal additional activity and optimise internal rates.
- Manage WLI activity
- Optimise internal rates
- Compare internal versus external cost
- Drive cost-effective internal delivery
Provides: reducing outsourcing by improving internal delivery
5Dynamic Service Planner
Build an integrated digital service plan using activities, demand types and capacity assumptions.
- Create service activities and demand types
- Build a digital service plan
- Test using DES or scenario modelling
- Compare required demand with current capacity
- Upload plans into rostering solutions
Provides: capacity, workforce and service redesign
6Live Service Plan
Turn the digital service plan into a live performance view.
- Compare actual versus expected activity
- Track delivery against plan
- Identify variance early
- Support ongoing service management
Provides: monitoring delivery and managing performance
One platform. Connected data. Better decisions.
⌕Activity data£Cost data◌Workforce / job plan data▤Income / tariff data⌁Demand dataSDM Platform▥Insight dashboards✓Assurance tools▦Planning tools⌁Live service managementThe platform connects the data that usually sits across separate systems and turns it into a practical management view of service delivery mix.
See how the SDM Platform could support your service
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