Futures: futures thinking and forecasting for healthcare
Strategic foresight that informs decision making, so you can face the future with confidence.
The Futures service helps healthcare organisations make sense of what is coming, including shifts in technology, population health, care models and policy.
Through futures thinking, forecasting and trend anticipation, UCLPartners translates complex horizon scanning into clear, actionable insights, to give you clarity on what is relevant and investable. This helps you design a better future, one that better meets the needs of your healthcare system, population, organisation and workforce.
Who this is for
Senior leaders in NHS Trusts, Integrated Care Systems, the broader NHS system and the Department of Health and Social Care.
This service is also designed for industry and charity partners. Those facing significant strategic decisions over the next three to five years will gain notable benefit from this service. The service is particularly well suited to those with little protected time for long-range thinking as a result of operational demands.
How it works
Scoping
An initial conversation to understand your strategic context, your priorities and what you most need to know.
Desktop review
UCLPartners conducts a high-level review of relevant trends, technologies and system signals, drawing on clinical expertise and system knowledge.
Stakeholder panel
Where there is strong alignment with local health system priorities or demonstrable demand from local NHS partners, UCLPartners provides more intensive support. This may include connecting you with NHS pilot sites, supporting bid development or providing bespoke project support.
Insight events
For broader engagements and where relevant, UCLPartners runs stakeholder events to gather deeper insight across a wider group.
Delivery findings
Insights are delivered as a clear, accessible and board-ready report, structured around strategic implications, not raw data.
What our partners say
UCLPartners is bringing senior system leaders together to focus on turning AI ambition into action which will help the NHS in London to get patients to the most appropriate environment for their assessment, treatment and care. It will also align clinical capacity to pathway demand, making it easier for clinicians to do the best for their patients.
Key benefits
A clearer view of what’s coming
Covering the technologies, policy shifts and population health trends most relevant to your organisation, so you can plan ahead rather than react.
Scenario modelling connected to your priorities
Scenarios are modelled to connect directly to investment priorities and service redesign, making them decision-ready.
Access to UCLPartners’ network
Drawing on our clinical, research and system partners, we bring a breadth of perspective that is difficult to replicate internally.
Confidence that your organisation is shaping its future
Grounding strategic planning in evidence and expert insight, so your organisation is making informed decisions about the future, not just responding to it.
Is this right for you?
Successful adoption requires senior and clinical engagement from within your organisation.
If you are unsure whether your challenge is the right fit, the team is happy to have an initial conversation.
Ilias Zapantis
Director of Implementation
ilias.zapantis@uclpartners.com
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