About the Modern Productive Series
Since Autumn 2024, and in partnership with the NHS organisations below, NHS Horizons has been working alongside frontline colleagues to identify areas with the greatest opportunities for productivity improvement. Where is there energy to do things differently? Where do people see the greatest opportunities for improvement? And what is getting in the way?
Built from the ground up
Our goal is to work together to test, share and learn different approaches and methods that improve outcomes leading to improvements in productivity. We continue to evolve our methods and are committed to sharing these with the broader NHS.
Our Partners
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We are grateful to our learning partners who have been on this journey with us:
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Great Northern Healthcare Alliance
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King’s College Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
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Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust.King’s
We also receive continued support and advice from a national guiding group with representation across health and care including professional bodies, academia, and think tanks. We thank them for their contributions so far.
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Built on firm foundations
The Modern Productive Series builds on the legacy and ethos of the original 1990s NHS Productive Series. In 2024, NHS Horizons brought together teams from across the NHS to refresh the approach, recognising the significant growth in improvement capability over the past two decades and aiming to introduce a contemporary, collaborative perspective on NHS productivity.
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Fundamentally, we believe that “people-led productivity”- the ability and appetite of individuals and teams to make changes and improvements within and across their work - is what we need to focus on boosting, now and in the future.
In December 2025 we submitted the Modern Productive Series into the NHS Productivity Commission's call for evidence. The commission aims to provide evidence and solutions to boost NHS productivity over the next decade and enhance people's quality of life – specifically, the number of healthy life years they get to enjoy.
Read our submission to the productivity commission call for evidence.
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