Supporting a successful 0-19 PHN bid with workforce and cost modelling

The provider needed a defensible 0-19 Public Health Nursing model for a major bid, showing how Health Visiting and School Nursing workforce could be aligned with population need, service requirements and the available financial envelope.

Benson translated the proposed service specification into detailed service profiles, workforce assumptions and local population requirements. Deprivation, safeguarding, travel, clinical allocation and role mix could be tested alongside future salary costs and contract-year forecasts.

Integrated Health Visiting and School Nursing workforce forecasts, population and locality analysis, service profiles, team assumptions and a multi-year cost model linking staffing requirements directly to financial forecasts.

• Workforce requirements linked directly to the proposed service model.
• Local complexity and deprivation reflected in resource allocation.
• Multi-year workforce and cost forecasts available during bid development.
• Alternative assumptions could be tested without rebuilding the model.
• The same model could continue into mobilisation and ongoing service planning after contract award.

The project supported a successful bid and created an operational planning capability that could be retained after award rather than a one-off tender spreadsheet.