e18 Innovation

is now part of
Digital Workforce

Automate.
Innovate.
Elevate.


NHS automation
expertise that delivers
lasting
improvements in
patient care and
staff experience.

Automate.
Innovate.
Elevate.

Automate.
Innovate.
Elevate.

Implementing Intelligent Automation solutions to transform patient care and deliver a better staff experience in the NHS.

Who are we?

Digital Workforce is a globally leading expert in transforming healthcare processes through automation. Our solutions combine deep industry expertise with market-leading automation technologies — including robotic process automation (RPA), advanced business process management and orchestration, AI, and AI agents.

We enable better, more accessible care by supporting healthcare professionals, improving process visibility, increasing productivity, and connecting workflows across systems and teams—all while delivering measurable cost savings.

Our UK subsidary – formerly known as e18 Innovation – consists of an expert team with over 150 years of combined NHS experience.

Customer Obsessed. Outcome Focused.

Why Digital Workforce?

The team has an unrivalled blend of over 150+ years of experience in the NHS and wider healthcare industry, meaning Digital Workforce is uniquely positioned to help healthcare organisations solve specific challenges and drive meaningful change.

Our specialists also offer deep expertise in end-to-end automation. We design solutions that automate and orchestrate entire care pathways, seamlessly connecting systems, patients, and healthcare professionals within a single, transparent workflow. The result is greater efficiency, improved visibility, and better outcomes across the care journey.

Capability

As a trusted partner of the world’s leading automation technology providers, Digital Workforce helps organisations select and maximise the value of the AI and automation solutions best suited to their needs.

NHS organisations can also benefit from the Outsmart cloud platform, which brings together the technologies and services needed for process transformation in a single, secure, and scalable environment. Combined with 24/7 managed services, Outsmart simplifies delivery, accelerates outcomes through pre-built components, and enables flexible scaling.

Delivery

Our industry experts take the time to understand the primary challenges and strategic priorities of each healthcare organisation that we work with, before forming strategic partnerships with our customers to deliver tangible digital transformation through Intelligent Automation.

We take pride in building long-term partnerships founded on trust and foster knowledge sharing across our NHS and global healthcare community, enabling customers to benefit from collective insights and best practices. To learn more join our NHS community here.

Louise Wall, Managing Director – Healthcare UK&I, Digital Workforce

“Through close partnerships with our clients, we develop tailored solutions that meet their unique needs and goals, ultimately delivering successful outcomes that drive lasting improvements.”

Our Customer Footprint

At Digital Workforce, we work in partnership with 70+ NHS organisations across 17 Integrated Care Systems (ICS), from acute trusts, to community & mental health providers, and primary care networks. We understand the importance of regional strategic alignment for the NHS, and as such, our approach revolves around establishing relationships with stakeholders at all levels of an ICS, driving collaboration and leveraging the power of integration to deliver transformational change. Our team’s expertise, combined with our collaborative approach, allows us to facilitate the development of innovative solutions, promote evidence-based decision-making, and foster seamless knowledge sharing and coordination between organisations, to revolutionise healthcare delivery and transform patient outcomes.

What Our Customers Say

Donna

“Digital Workforce are our chosen innovation and automation partner working with UH Sussex to deliver digital transformation to eliminate waste, improve productivity and Data Quality and deliver our outpatient transformation programme.

The experienced Digital Workforce team are supporting UH Sussex with stakeholder workshops, process optimisation and the introduction of best of breed technology to achieve our ambitions. We see them as an extension of our team, and they offer significant value to our workstreams.”

Donna Steeles - Assistant Director, Performance & Improvement, University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust
Matt Liverpool women's NFS Foundation Trust
“The next phase of our automation programme will focus on implementing processes that improve quality of care and patient experience. Following the rollout of our new PAS, we intend to automate Outpatient and GP Referrals as our next process. Digital Workforce introduced RPA into Liverpool Women’s a few years ago and have been hugely supportive ever since. The team’s knowledge and guidance that they have provided us with has been a great help.”
Matt Connor - Chief Information Officer, Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust
Aubrey
“We are thrilled to be partnering with Digital Workforce to implement Blue Prism automation software that will transform our administrative processes and improve staff efficiency. As Bradford uses the same EPR system as our neighbouring trust, Calderdale and Huddersfield, we are confident that replicating their successful implementation of RPA with e18 will deliver best value for money and speed to deliver a return on investment for our Trust. Throughout the selection process, e18 was responsive and demonstrated a willingness to ensure that the commercial model met our needs. We look forward to a successful partnership with Digital Workforce Team.”
Aubrey Sitch - Programme Manager, Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Harrogate NFS Foundation Trust
“We chose to partner with e18 because of their extensive experience and solid reputation as experts in implementing automation solutions in the NHS. We were impressed by the evidence of the work they have done with over 50 other NHS organisations, including several of our ICS members. We are confident that Digital Workforce are best placed to not only support our organisation but help enable a collaborative approach to automating processes across the region and align to the ICS’s key goals”
Richard Atkinson - Head of Digital Delivery, Harrogate & District NHS Foundation Trust
“The Digital Workforce team are extremely well connected both within the NHS and wider technology sector, which has assisted the Trust in moving through an identification and implementation process for an industry leading Intelligent Automation solution. They are working across the Southeast London ICS to coordinate the workstream and will look to ensure best practice and collaboration is achieved.”
Justin Beardsmore – Chief Technology Officer, Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust
“Digital Workforce have been on hand to support our automation programme from the start and continue to work with the CHFT teams on further process selection aligned to our organisational, ICS and national objectives.”
Julian Chadha - RPA General Manager, Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust

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