Award-Winning Hospital Estates and Design Consultants
OUR FOUNDATIONS
Founded in 2021, Health Spaces is an award-winning healthcare estates and design consultancy with integrated project delivery capabilities. We work with healthcare organisations to shape environments that support high-quality care and long-term resilience.
We are part of Specialist Health Solutions Ltd (SHS), a group of companies founded in 2007 providing a range of solutions that have helped deliver better healthcare, faster. Together, we’ve built a strong track record in the successful delivery of exceptional services to the NHS and healthcare providers globally. Our years of experience working within healthcare have introduced us to almost every clinical setting available. We’ve opened our eyes to some of the best and equally some of the most challenging healthcare settings across the world, providing us with a unique insight and deep understanding of what is required from both the patient, staff and clinical aspects of a hospital environment.
At Health Spaces, we apply this first-hand insight to every project we undertake. Our proven Understand, Create and Deliver methodology ensures each project is grounded in reality, shaped by evidence and delivered with clarity – enabling healthcare environments that are ready to perform from day one and adapt over time.
Case StudiesDelivering exceptional patient experiences
Hospital estates and design consultants with integrated project delivery capabilities.
Specialists in healthcare estates strategy and design, we bring the best advice of the healthcare professional world to bear on the real-world day to day challenges NHS hospitals and healthcare providers face, creating world-class estates and facilities that deliver exceptional patient care.
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We’re a team of experts in healthcare – as well as our in-house team, we also have access to an extensive external network of specialists in their field, giving us access to a pool of knowledge, experience and resources that we can bring to bear on any specific project. This ensures that whatever project we are delivering, we are truly aiming for exceptional patient experiences, clinical outcomes, and for staff wellbeing and experience.
Turning strategy into reality, our methodology – designed for healthcare processes and governance – removes the weight of navigating multifaceted design challenges, tight deadlines and complex governance, delivering projects up to 30% faster than traditional methods.
We work with the NHS, including acute hospitals and mental health hospitals, as well as private hospitals and healthcare providers, providing healthcare consultancy services as part of a end-to-end project delivery service.
Global best practice
Bringing knowledge of global best practice to all of our delivery streams, our portfolio includes estate-wide development control strategy programmes, new healthcare builds and hospital refurbishment schemes. More recently, we have been working with a Trust to trial principles related to the New Hospital Programme, including the design of single in-patient rooms.
The expertise of our multi-disciplinary team of healthcare professionals spans the full spectrum of hospital design and construction workflows – including clinical and estates strategy, business case writing, healthcare design and construction delivery – drawing on decades of experience from projects across the NHS and international health systems.
Alongside our healthcare design services, we passionately support the evolution of healthcare within our local communities and actively work with healthcare providers to raise awareness of Health on the High Street initiatives.
UNDERSTAND, CREATE, DELIVER
By working with you from the very beginning of your healthcare estates journey, we can fully understand your clinical requirements – analysing all the details around improving patient experience, staff welfare and operational efficiencies – while enabling long-term estate infrastructure to always remain in clear focus.
We know that every NHS Trust and healthcare provider has individual requirements, which is why our process flow follows a consultative and flexible approach, ensuring the right team of experts – including healthcare consultants, architects and construction specialists – work closely with you to create bespoke solutions which incorporate both latest innovation and best practice as well as being driven by your individual requirements. Our Methodology
With you from start to finish, and any step along the way
Every healthcare design and construction project we undertake follows the direction set by our core pillars of delivering healthcare excellence seamlessly for our NHS and healthcare partners.
Our approach to healthcare ensures we provide a lasting solution that fulfils the specific clinical and operational needs of our partners, and all within a time-frame that can help to deliver better healthcare, faster, to patients all across the UK.
Our expert network including healthcare consultants, architects and build specialists will work with you from the very start of your journey to understand and advise on your clinical and estate strategy. A discovery phase into the clinical requirement with your stakeholders and clinicians is followed by a detailed healthcare design and management programme.
Without being restricted to any specific default healthcare construction delivery method, we offer complete flexibility from our assured supply chain partners to meet the exact real-world requirements for patient spaces and clinical environments.
Dedicated to healthcare, we have a strong track record in delivering projects for the NHS.
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The Health Spaces ‘difference’
We never stop learning.
We work both independently and collaboratively with our panel of current and ex-NHS and healthcare SMEs to harness the collective knowledge within current healthcare needs to the benefit of our clients, ensuring we continue to understand the on-going pressures faced in healthcare – in the UK and around the world.
Many of the team are members of Architects for Health, a not-for-profit body leading the campaign for quality in all healthcare architecture and construction, including influencing future technical guidance.
In 2023 we launched the FORTIS platform for the NHS to share case studies, thought-leadership in healthcare design and latest innovations. Going beyond healthcare architecture and NHS estate strategy, the forum supports the sharing of insight and learnings in one central place, delving into the most pressing and pertinent topics facing the NHS; all with the same shared goal of creating exceptional patient and staff experiences.
Connecting Voices in Healthcare