What is Clinical Insourcing?

Clinical Insourcing providers manage the delivery of extra medical services (e.g. surgical and diagnostic procedures) using spare NHS facilities, typically outside normal working hours. The purpose is to boost service outputs in line with national waiting list targets.

A True 7-day Service’

Traditional insourcing is designed to top up ongoing NHS activity with stand-alone services typically delivered outside normal working hours (e.g. at weekends). 

At Medacs Healthcare, our approach is much more NHS-integrated, with support available during the week and at weekends, across the entire clinical pathway.  

With extra staff and support embedded into day-to-day services, we can help our partners to tackle more complex procedures and drive increased activity across all interlinked areas, 7 days a week. 

Key Benefits
of Insourcing

Rapidly increase surgical and clinical activity
New insourcing projects can be swiftly procured and implemented very quickly, providing an instant uplift in the volumes of patient procedures completed each week. New projects are typically mobilised in under 3 weeks, depending on the nature of the contract and services required.
Added value is delivered with below-tariff rates, charged per procedure completed, with no charges levied when procedures are cancelled. The NHS also benefits from built-in support with wider aspects of service delivery such as list and workforce planning, clinical coding and governance.

The NHS can depend on insourcing providers with strong staffing backgrounds like Medacs to draft in extra clinical staff, even at the very last minute. Insourcing providers also have the ability to offer bespoke bonus schemes to incentivise a wider pool of workers. Medacs has an unrivalled bank of specialist surgical workers and can quickly backfill with reserve staff when unexpected absences occur.

Satisfaction levels among patients treated by insourcing teams are extremely positive. Research shows that in a familiar setting, such as their local hospital, patients are less anxious, less likely to cancel their appointment and more likely to accept the care and treatment advice given. Many patients also prefer the convenience of weekend or evening appointments.

Insourcing providers have a continual focus on identifying working efficiencies to maximise value for the NHS. When substantive staff are involved in insourcing projects, more efficient working practices quickly become embedded as standard. This has a knock-on benefit for wider service delivery, supporting NHS teams to improve productivity and workforce planning.   

Understand how we tackle complex procedures

Traditional insourcing providers tend to bring in their own external teams. This can work for low-risk services but is not appropriate for more specialist surgical procedures. Medacs insourcing service is designed to safely tackle complex surgical work that others can’t. Watch this explainer video to learn more. 

Medacs insourcing service

Medacs insourcing service is designed to safely tackle complex surgical work that others can’t.

‘Allied’ teams

We build trusted 'allied' teams, with integrated support for related services such as recovery departments or inpatient beds.

1000+ Surgical Staff

An unrivalled bank of surgeons, anaesthetists, scrub and recovery nurses, ODPs and theatre support workers.

Integrated Services

Uniquely flexible model focused on fully integrating extra surgical activity across all interlinked services and teams.

Complex Cases

More scope to build complexity into lists with trusted, skilled teams spanning all aspects of the clinical pathway.

Clinical Coding Support

Comprehensive support to ensure accurate clinical codes are captured for every patient and procedure.

Fast results

New insourcing projects can be implemented very quickly, providing an instant uplift in the volumes of patient procedures completed each week.

Insourcing services can be procured swiftly via a range of national frameworks, with Government funding allocated via the Elective Recovery Fund (ERF).

New projects are typically mobilised in under 3 weeks, depending on the nature of the contract and services required.