University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust will feature in BBC Radio 4’s ‘In Business’ show tonight, in a broadcast that offers an insight into productivity in the NHS.

With finances in a difficult position for many Trusts, the rising costs of new treatments, an ageing population and increasing patient demand – what can the NHS do?

With interviews with staff from across UHB, including chief executive, Dame Julie Moore, the lead nurse for clinical IT systems, Helen Gyves, and matron, Gemma Wilkinson, the answer for the NHS may be in improving productivity.

As part of UHB’s seven minute segment, Helen Gyves gives a tour of the critical care unit at UHB that has for the first time become paperless with the introduction of a new IT system that has led to improvements in patient care and productivity for the department.

This episode is first of two programmes on the health service by journalist Louise Cooper exploring the productivity puzzle: what does increased productivity look like in the NHS?

Louise meets clinicians and managers across the country that are part of a growing number of NHS staff ‘trying to do more for less’.

“Can their efforts be replicated across the NHS? And, if so, will it ever be enough?” Louise questions.

The programme will be broadcast this evening, Thursday 12 January 2017 on BBC Radio 4 at 20:30, and again on Sunday January 15 2017 at 21:30.

You can also listen on BBC iPlayer after airing.