Healthcare Consultancy
Understand phase: developing the strategic direction
Hospital estates and design consultants, we work closely with NHS Trusts to identify and articulate key challenges within an NHS estate.
Our healthcare consultancy work focuses on gathering a detailed understanding of all the different facets of a project – from analysing patient and nursing needs to long term estate strategy and wider service infrastructure.
Working closely with you from the beginning of your NHS estates strategy journey, we can ensure delivery of the right services and disciplines required to meet the individual challenges faced by your Trust.
Multi-disciplinary healthcare professionals will work with you to analyse the entirety of your project, building on workflows including healthcare economics, healthcare planning, population growth, and demand and capacity modelling.
The objective for this stage is to clarify and develop the strategic direction of the project and establish a strategic brief.
Clinical strategy
Health and clinical planning
Before the design programme can begin, clinical and health planners take the time to fully understand and analyse the needs of your patients and all stakeholders, including at Trust, system, regional and national levels. Workflows take into consideration future demand analysis, demographics, models of care and accessibility of healthcare.
To understand your clinical requirement in detail, stakeholder engagement workshops, site appraisals and feasibility studies will be undertaken.
During the healthcare consultancy phases, we work on the very early stages of identifying and articulating key challenges, and developing a strategy to fix them.
- Site appraisals
- Healthcare planning
- Health economics
- Population growth
- Clinical modelling
- Demand and capacity modelling
- Stakeholder interviews
- Clinical workshops
- Clinical planning and pathway development
- Workforce and resource planning
- Operational and leadership reviews
- Stakeholder engagement & management
Stakeholder interviews
We dig deep into the core priorities for a project, articulating the purpose and objective behind it. Individual interviews with each stakeholder take place to understand a Trust’s strategic objectives, the project aspirations, potential barriers to success and how we will measure success. Launching the project with alignment throughout all stakeholders is critical for maintaining a rapid and stress-free pace and keeping to programme for the rest of the project journey.
Clinical workshops
We work with clinicians to understand how the Trust’s objectives can be delivered operationally. We understand what gaps there are in our knowledge around demand and capacity and other key data, assess different models of care and pathways, and establish the project brief.
To listen to how clinical workshops were conducted in the creation of the Concept Ward at James Paget University Hospital, watch our webinar: The Journey Towards Single In-Patient Rooms.
End-to-end healthcare consultancy
Our healthcare consultancy services continue beyond the strategic advisory phases.
Create
The Create stage translates the strategic brief into a tangible design.
Explore hospital design
Deliver
The delivery stage turns the design into a reality, with de-risked and seamless delivery.
Healthcare Construction
“The fact that the building was designed ground-up for the purpose of being a reporting space, tailored to the service and its users, allows the staff to feel like it is their space… To have had the chance to have input into the design and specification, through to seeing the building delivered and to getting the imaging equipment installed, has been a great process to be part of.”
Hinesh Patel
Imaging Systems Officer, Leicester General Hospital
“As part of our Concept Ward we are developing a research proposal to really look at how we measure those benefits and whether they have had the intended benefits we think they have. Whether it’s improvements in infection control, length of stay, quality of care, patient feedback, staff feedback. All of that put together – what are the benefits – will help us to inform decisions as we move forwards to a New Hospital Programme.”
Paul Morris
Chief Nurse, James Paget University Hospital
“Health Spaces have provided the Trust with a very professional multidisciplinary service in designing a very impressive Orthopaedic Centre to meet the needs of our Orthopaedic Service. Health Spaces worked alongside the Trust to develop the design, providing a set of design solutions in a very fast-tracked timescale, meeting the high time and quality demands the Trust put upon them. Their team demonstrated high levels of knowledge and expertise which is clearly demonstrated within the final design proposals.”
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