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A software development company, specialising in data insights
Parallel help major organisations, including the NHS and local authorities, make decisions around service and estates strategy planning.
As well as developing SHAPE, the NHS’s health service planning tool, they also create custom mapping and visualisation products, data-driven software developments, analysis software and planning tools to help you forecast future trends.
Parallel take your data and make it exciting, practical, visual or present it however you want, giving you and your team the tools to make better, evidence-driven decisions.
Work with Parallel directly, or via Crown Commercial Service’s G-Cloud 14 framework.
Custom, interactive maps
Data mapping and visualisation
For data to be effective, you need to be able to use it to make decisions. Parallel’s data mapping and visualisation tools give your staff access to many datasets, which you can use to overlay and compare multiple factors, allowing your team to see where to target your resources.
Parallel can create custom, interactive maps to showcase your data, visualising your own data or open source datasets to give you an easy-to-understand, image-driven way to see your data from a different perspective.
Make complex data simple
Data driven software developments
If you handle lots of data, you need an easy way to manage it. Parallel can create digital solutions to enable you to work together with your partners to accurately and efficiently use data.
Previous work includes project management platforms, including ProCure23, NHS England’s route to market for the provision of design and construction services to NHS capital projects. Parallel created, maintain and update the portal, ensuring all partners have a user friendly, reliable and accurate way of working together.
Base your plans on evidence
Find out more about SHAPE
Data Analysis
Parallel take complex data and finds new ways to analyse it, giving you a way to streamline decision making. The team is made up of expert developers, analysts and Better Business CaseTM practitioners, so they understand the steps needed to produce a robust business case, and how evidence-based analysis plays a critical role in making decisions.
Parallel’s flagship tool, SHAPE, has over 13,000 users, and is supported by the Department of Health and Social Care. Its primary aim is to facilitate scenario planning and option appraisals in support of public services, allowing the creation of estates strategies and business case development.
Generating efficiencies
Digitisation
Streamline businesses processes and free up time so your team can concentrate on the vital strategic tasks that only they can do. Whether that’s automated reports, data dashboards or bringing systems in-house, Parallel can use innovative methods to digitise your time-consuming day-to-day tasks, saving you time and money and making your organisation fit for the future.
Case study
PRIMARY CARE ESTATES PLANNING
Find out how Parallel helped provide NHS England with a comprehensive primary care data set to support integrated clinical services and estates planning.
Case study
SUPPORTING NHS COVID VACCINE ROLL OUT
Parallel's product, SHAPE, has been used throughout the Covid-19 pandemic and vaccination roll out to aid decision making on where best to locate vaccination centres within communities across the country.
Contact us
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