Our support, your success
Athona Clinical Solutions provides tailored clinical insourcing services to NHS Trusts, helping increase capacity, reduce waiting lists and improve operational efficiency.
With more than 20 years’ experience in healthcare, we build specialist clinical teams around the needs of each service, supporting elective and unscheduled care while helping Trusts reduce reliance on ad hoc agency staffing. Every project is designed with clear governance, measurable outcomes and a practical exit strategy in mind.
Proven clinical insourcing outcomes
patients waiting to start treatment
patients treated within 18 weeks, where the NHS operational standard is 92%.
Athona Clinical Solutions has met operational standards for treatment times
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How can clinical insourcing help NHS Trusts reduce waiting lists?
Working alongside clinical leads, we partner with your hospital to devise a detailed insourcing plan. This is designed to address breaches of operational standards, limit ad hoc spending and improve efficiency.
Whether it’s a short-term need to reduce patient waitlists, or a longer-term partnership to provide ongoing support. Both routes are focused on positively enhancing the patients’ experience and easing the pressure on your staff and hospital.
Clinical insourcing tailored to your Trust
Our insourcing solutions integrate seamlessly with your teams and can cover elective and unscheduled care support. Our network of skilled professionals can be utilised on evenings, weekends, or for 7-day operations to maximise capacity and reduce RTT waitlists.
Insourcing work
Athona Clinical Solutions is approved on key NHS clinical insourcing frameworks, helping Trusts procure services through established and compliant routes.
We are currently available through:
- Workforce Alliance RM6276
- HTE Clinical Insourcing Solutions 2025/S 000-016120
Our approach is designed to meet NHS service standards while providing clear visibility over patient pathways, governance and commercial delivery.
More information about the GCA Workforce Alliance RM6276 work is available here.
More information about the HTE Clinical Insourcing Solutions 2025/S 000-016120 work is available here.
Athona Clinical Services provides clinical insourcing across the following specialties:
- Acute Medicine
- Cardiology
- Clinical Pathology
- D&E
- Dermatology
- ENT
- Gastroenterology
- Geriatrics
- GIM
- Gynaecology
- Neurology
- Oncology
- Ophthalmology
- Radiology
- Respiratory Medicine
- Rheumatology
- Stroke Medicine
- Surgery
- T&O
- Theatres
- Urology
- Vascular
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FAQs
Clinical insourcing is where an external provider delivers a defined clinical service within NHS premises, using the Trust’s existing facilities and infrastructure.
Insourcing generally takes place within NHS facilities, while outsourcing may involve patients being treated through an external provider at another location. You can read more about clinical insourcing vs outsourcing in our blog post.
Yes. Insourcing can provide additional clinical capacity through evening, weekend or extended services, helping Trusts increase activity as part of a wider waiting-list recovery plan.
No. Clinical insourcing typically provides a defined service with a coordinated clinical team, governance and delivery model rather than filling individual staffing gaps.
Mobilisation times vary depending on the specialty, workforce, governance, estates and operational requirements. Athona works with each Trust to develop a realistic mobilisation plan around those dependencies.