Focus on reducing taxi spend across the trust

Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, North East and Yorkshire, Acute

The problem

Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust needs to reduce trust-wide taxi expenditure because otherwise this will have a significant impact on the trust delivering the waste reduction programme and its cost improvement plan.

The challenge 

How might we highlight the current level of taxi usage and resulting expenditure so that usage is in line with policy and expenditure is reduced to acceptable levels?

The outputs

The tangible products that came from implementation of our innovation were:

  • the Trust wide taxi spend dashboard made available to all budget holders and
  • waste reduction for cost improvement programme (CIP) target holders.

The outcomes

The benefits to the trust as a result of the innovation implemented were:

  1. Immediate access to up to date and valid information on taxi usage
  2. Clarity on usage trends, patterns and behaviours.
  3. Allowing clinical and corporate business units to swiftly and effectively make decisions and take action.
  4. Providing at-a-glance visibility
  5. Saving time and resources on digging out taxi spend information in budget reports
  6. Improving management decision-making relating to taxi spend in line with policy
  7. Easier performance checks and balances
  8. Up-to-date progress evaluation

The Innovation

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What the peer-reviewers said

“This innovation achieves the goal to highlight the current level of taxi usage and spend in the trust and presents this data in a meaningful and useful way to budget holders with the aim on reducing waste, in line with the CIP programme.”

“The innovation provides an abundance of refined data which allows for effective and efficient decision making.”

“It is clear that using the KPI outlined in the submission will create more challenge opportunities and cost reducing exercises.”

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