Hospital estates & design consultants
HEALTHCARE SPECIALISTS
Hospital estates and design consultants with integrated project delivery capabilities, our award-winning team of healthcare consultants and design specialists create and deliver world-class healthcare estates and facilities.
We understand the challenges that healthcare providers and NHS Trusts face – complex design challenges, future estate strategy, budget constraints and tight timescales.
Turning strategy into reality, our methodology – designed for healthcare processes and governance – delivers projects up to 30% faster than traditional methods.
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OUR METHODOLOGY
Specialists in healthcare infrastructure, estates and design, we follow a proven ‘Understand, Create, Deliver’ methodology.
We work on the very early stages of identifying and articulating key challenges, developing a strategy to fix them, and overseeing the delivery of those solutions.
As a team we share an extensive collective healthcare experience, enabling us to harness multiple layers of healthcare expertise spanning the public and private healthcare sector. Alongside our workflows, we also collaborate closely with our trusted specialist partners, ensuring we bring the best advice from the healthcare professional world to bear on your individual – and unique – healthcare construction project.
Our methodology – designed specifically for healthcare processes and governance – delivers projects faster, with less disruption, and more sustainably without compromising on quality of design or build.
METHODOLOGY
Healthcare procurement
Health Spaces are accessible to NHS partners through a number of public sector frameworks. Services including Professional Services, Design, Construction and Modular Construction can be procured using these frameworks, and you can talk to one of our healthcare procurement experts to find the best route for you.
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We welcome NHS Trusts to contact us directly to discuss an approach that best suits your project needs.
Supplier: Inivos Ltd t/a Health Spaces
Framework Agreement: Lot 1: Bespoke Modular Buildings for Purchase
Offer Reference Number: SBS10091
Period of Agreement: 5th July 2021 – 4th July 2025
Find a Tender Service Reference Number: 2021-583374
Contract Reference Number: SBS10091
Bloom, NEPRO ³
Find out moreFramework : NEPRO ³
Delivery Partner: Bloom Procurement Services
Period of Agreement: 01/09/2019 – 31/08/2025
ESPO
Find out moreFramework Number: 953_22 Modular Buildings
Framework Period: 1st February 2022 – 31st January 2024 (Extension Option 31/01/2026)
Lot 2A: Modular Healthcare Buildings – Hire
Lot 2B: Modular Healthcare Buildings – Purchase
Procure Partnerships
Find out moreFramework Agreement: The Procure East Midlands Framework
Procurement Hub
Health Spaces is able to offer the NHS a fast-track method of procurement of modular healthcare buildings and healthcare construction via the Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) solution, allowing the NHS to create their own tender in a short time frame.
Access procurement hubBringing healthcare expertise together to deliver healthcare excellence
UNDERSTAND
Strategic expertise for long-term estate infrastructure
Dedicated to improving patient and staff experience, our methodology allows us to work with your stakeholders from the very beginning of the healthcare construction journey to fully understand the hospital’s specific requirements – through stakeholder interviews and workshops we analyse all the details around improving patient experience, clinical outcomes and delivering operational efficiencies.
By taking a strategic approach to health planning, we ensure the projects delivered for your immediate clinical requirements also support the wider estate strategy, enabling long-term estate infrastructure to always remain in focus.
Strategic consultancy
CONSULTATIVE APPROACH
We understand that every healthcare provider has individual requirements, which is why our consultative approach ensures we work in close partnership with you. As part of our strategic phases, experienced healthcare consultants and design specialists will provide full support and expertise – from demand and capacity modelling, business case preparation and funding guidance, to early-stage designs and project management.
- MULTI-DISCIPLINARY COVERAGE
From health planning, to business case, to BREEAM & Net Zero - LONG-TERM ESTATES STRATEGIC THINKING
Deliverable master planning & development control plans
CREATE
Specialists in healthcare architecture
With an extensive collective experience in healthcare architectural design, including experience in delivering hospital new-builds and refurbishment, healthcare architects and design specialists will support NHS Trusts to find creative solutions to challenging requirements.
Drawing on decades of collective experience from a focus on healthcare architecture and its impact on health and healing, our process flow follows a flexible approach, allowing us to work closely with you to create bespoke solutions which incorporate best practice and latest innovation and thinking in healthcare design, as well as being driven by the needs of your Trust.
Healthcare design
HEALTHCARE EXCELLENCE
Dedicated healthcare consultants and design specialists
With experience in estate strategy, master planning, health planning and consultation, your team of healthcare design specialists will have a proven track record of developing outstanding design with the desire to maintain exceptional quality to deliver healthcare excellence throughout your journey.
DELIVER
Healthcare construction consultants
Turning strategy into seamless delivery with our integrated project delivery capabilities, our approach to hospital design and build delivers projects at pace.
Current healthcare construction knowledge informs the design journey at every stage of the delivery programme.
Experienced in delivering hospital new builds and hospital repurposing and refurbishment projects, and with expertise in Modern Methods of Construction (MMC), including modular construction, healthcare construction consultants will ensure for best-in-class solutions to meet your individual requirements.
Without being restricted to any specific default construction method, we offer complete flexibility from an assured supply chain to deliver the best healthcare construction services required for your project.
Harnessing our construction expertise, we also work with specialists in hospital construction to bring a wealth of experience in both MMC and traditional construction methods to your project.
- COST AND BUDGET CONTROL – Current construction cost knowledge informs design journey.
- SUPPLY-CHAIN ASSURANCE
- PROGRAMME MANAGEMENT – Accurate forecasting and reporting.
“Architecture is at its most rewarding when we work closely with building users; clinical and non-clinical – staff and patients. We can solve difficult problems and help to evolve new practices together, while always looking ahead to future opportunities and needs.”
Jaime Bishop, Architect
Clinical Review Panel
Working with SMEs and our Clinical Review Panel is an important phase in our delivery workflow; providing opportunities to discuss and develop our designs and healthcare construction solutions with NHS and healthcare professionals in an ever-changing landscape, ensuring we are providing the very best outcomes that are right for now and the future.
Clinicians from different fields of healthcare expertise, operational experts, hospital executives and NHS estates professionals review our workflows, working closely with our healthcare design teams. Bringing future-looking thinking into the clinical setting and wider estate strategy, this work ensures we continue to design and deliver spaces that create exceptional patient experiences and improve the lives of NHS staff.
Sustainability
Sustainability is at the core of our thinking. Designing using existing resources, facilities and products has a significant and real impact on our planet. We will look to ensure each of our projects meets your individual requirements, targets and sustainability commitments.
We believe it’s about a partnership at the outset; long-term, everyone benefits.
Our NHS, as a key role model nationally, has set ambitious sustainability targets which our construction projects will be a significant part of. We’ve developed our offering to ensure we can be a key partner in achieving these targets and sustainability goals.
Executive Academy
Alongside our monthly webinars, we host quarterly thought-leadership workshops for healthcare leaders and NHS executives. We also host live Q&A panels during the call.
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Leading in Innovation
The needs and trends within healthcare are always moving and in order to respond to these new demands we constantly look for opportunities to deliver better healthcare.
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Awards & Accreditations
Thorough customer understanding and insight into clinical requirements provide the building blocks for your next hospital build or healthcare construction project.
Find out moreFAQs
View all FAQsOur team of healthcare specialists can support NHS Trusts in writing the design, costing and programme content to help meet the rapid turnaround requirement for Outline Business Cases.
In addition, we are also able to share NHS Outline Business Case examples as templates. If you would like to be sent supporting documents:
Do you offer funding guidance?
When financial pressure begins to impact on patient care, Health Spaces can provide a means of solving these issues to help “press go” on a project to avoid any further delay and help deliver better healthcare, faster.
Health Spaces have secured funding lines and partner with regulated financiers to provide flexible financing options that comply with IFRS and NHS finance guidelines and are available on both MMC and construction works for re-purposing spaces.
Our healthcare specialists are able to guide you through the funding options available as well as prepare OBCs.
We understand that every requirement and circumstance is unique in every NHS Trust. Health Spaces create spaces that help improve patient experience, operational efficiency and clinical outcome.
Before progressing to the design stages, we work closely with you to understand your Trust’s individual requirements, as well as the wider Trust strategy.