Digital App Design

Innovative Power Apps. Purpose-built for NHS transformation.

Some challenges need a custom digital solution. Our substantive NHS developers leverage Microsoft Power Apps across the NHS Microsoft 365 platform to build secure, scalable applications that cut manual workload and fit your digital strategy.

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The Challenge

Connecting your digital systems.

When off-the-shelf software falls short, trusts often revert to unsecure spreadsheets and paper forms. We build the digital connection. Utilising tools like the Microsoft Power Platform, our developers create intuitive, user-friendly applications that digitise data capture, integrate seamlessly with your existing databases, and provide real-time reporting dashboards for your leadership team.

All app development is delivered by NHS-substantive developers with a direct understanding of your operational and governance environment. We build to NHS standards, not generic commercial templates.

Case Study

Empowering 880 users at the Royal Free London.

Digital App Design

Empowering 880 users at the Royal Free London

The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust needed a more robust, mobile-friendly way for busy managers and staff to record annual appraisals and manage payroll services. Our team designed and deployed a custom Power App, giving staff secure, instant access to critical forms via their smartphones and tablets.

Deployed to 880 active users across the RFL group
Overpayments down 32% since the March 2026 launch, against the same period in 2025
Pay change requests rejected for accuracy down from 25% to 4%
Replaced vulnerable legacy spreadsheets with a secure database
Custom dashboard reporting provided for HR and management
What we are building now

North London Partners Shared Services: Recruitment App

In development

We are building this app for the Employment Services Hiring Team at North London Partners Shared Services (NLPSS). The team currently tracks new starters across spreadsheets and separate TRAC reports. Keeping those sources in step takes manual effort, and makes it harder to spot a changed start date or a missed pre-payroll step.

The app is built in Microsoft Power Apps on Dataverse. Hiring and TRAC data flows in automatically, so the team works from one shared, up-to-date view.

What the app will do

  • Show outstanding, allocated and completed hires in one place, filtered by team member
  • Flag changes to booked start dates
  • Track payroll readiness, audit checks and Smartcard set-up for every hire
  • Give each team member a personal dashboard of the work that needs their attention
  • Export a daily backup file to support the team’s business continuity plan
12,000 new hires a year the app is designed to manage, depending on recruitment activity

We will publish the results once the app is live.

Screenshot of the hiring app's main screen: a table of outstanding hires showing each hire's TRAC ID, whether they are internal or external, booked and revised start dates, employer and allocated team member. Booked start dates needing attention are shown in red. Filters sit above the table and a navigation menu runs down the left.
The main hires view. Screen shows test data.

Expected benefits

  • Less manual admin. Reporting and data updates will run automatically, so the team will no longer re-key information or build reports by hand.
  • One live view of the workload. Team members and managers will see outstanding, in-progress and completed hires in real time.
  • Earlier warning on capacity. Managers will be able to balance work across the team, spot pressure sooner and check actions are completed on time.

Where next

Process design services

Learn how we map and optimise your operational workflows before we build your custom application.

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Digital clinical safety

Ensure your custom-built clinical applications meet all mandatory NHS safety and IG standards.

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Read our case studies

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