TTC House,
Hadley Park,
Telford, Shropshire TF1 6QJ
Tel: 01952 677660
Fax: 01952 605716
Email: info@shp-uk.com
Services Provided
Strategic Healthcare Planning has an exceptional track record in delivering service planning, capital planning, estates planning and design expertise to healthcare organisations. We work within acute, primary and community care and mental health services supporting organisations with change. We work at all levels to deliver organisation based, whole health economy, national and international initiatives.
We offer services across the whole spectrum of healthcare planning and for convenience have structured them under the headings below and described them further in the listings that follow:
Service planning
Capital Planning
Estates Planning
Lead consultant and PFI
Feasibility studies
Business Cases
Design
We offer a flexible approach to engaging with projects and clients. We can lead, manage and facilitate or provide a technical supporting service as required.
We have a skilled and experienced team of healthcare planners able to:
- Facilitate strategic and tactical planning of service change;
- Lead and manage planning and change processes where required;
- Facilitate the engagement of clinical teams and develop their thinking;
- Assemble, lead and coordinate multidisciplinary technical teams;
- Support processes through data analysis, development of specifications, schedules, concept designs and business cases
Our product offerings include the following:
Service planning

Our service planning portfolio covers a full range of analytical services and reporting covering:
- Capacity Planning - based on healthcare needs, service analysis, future proofing and performance benchmarking;
- Remodelling of services – between sites, across health economies and between health sectors;
- Service option development;
- Support to capital option appraisals and feasibility studies;
- Service development strategies.
For more information on this range of services please contact us at info@shp-uk.com
Capital Planning

SHP provides a comprehensive range of capital planning support for healthcare buildings. The products we deliver are summarised in the listings below:
Clinical Specifications and Models of Care for:
- Whole facilities;
- Clinical departments;
- Clinical support services;
- Non clinical support services.
Adjacency and Flow Diagrams for:
- Functional relationship requirements between departments;
- Room clustering requirements to meet departmental model of care;
- Mapping patient journeys.
Space Planning and Schedules of:
- Functional content to support service option appraisal and estate planning;
- Accommodation to support capital scheme costing and design development.
For more information on this range of services please contact us at info@shp-uk.com
Estates Planning

Senior staff at SHP have surveyed literally millions of square meters of healthcare building space during their working careers. This experienced is now combined with comprehensive understanding of the service delivery agenda, national and local policy drives and imaginative thinking to provide high quality estate planning for healthcare organisations. The blend of clinical, managerial and estate objectives has led to SHP being renowned for excellent estate strategy work. Our products include:
- Estate strategies for Trusts;
- Estate strategies for community and primary care
- Strategic service development plans (SSDPs) for localities
Lead consultant and Trust adviser roles for PFI and other major healthcare initiatives including:
The founding directors of SHP have national reputations as leading experts in the area of major capital scheme development. Our in house team can deliver a range of services including:
- Leading and coordinating multi disciplinary technical teams
- Strategic service and site planning
- Public sector comparator development
- Preparation of supporting specifications;
- Supporting invitation processes;
- Evaluating responses;
- Negotiating with the Private Sector;
- Validation of deliverables.
Feasibility studies

SHP has undertaken many feasibility studies for healthcare projects. We are able to provide a service across the scale of major concept studies down to micro studies within departments. Our approach is based on:
- Understanding best practice in operational terms
- Analysis of service and or clinical models
- Establishing clear objectives around efficiency, quality, capacity of service delivery
- Establishing the level of detail required and gauging assumptions accordingly
- Efficient delivery of reports to agreed deadlines
For more information on this range of services please contact us at info@shp-uk.com
Business Cases

SHP has many years of experience of managing, coordinating, authoring and supporting NHS Business Cases. We are familiar with various formats of business case including the Capital Investment Manual and the 5case model structures. We have undertaken business case work for the following initiatives, sectors and submission levels:
- Service Rationalisation;
- Capital schemes and revenue developments for:
- Acute Services;
- Mental Health and Learning Disability services
- Primary and Community Care Services;
- All levels of investment cases including:
- Pre SOC submissions;
- Strategic Outline Cases;
- Outline Business Cases; and
- Full Business Cases;
For more information on this range of services please contact us at info@shp-uk.com
Design

The architectural team at SHP have been dedicated to healthcare building design for most of their working careers. This experience combined with detailed healthcare planning expertise provides an ideal combination for the efficient development of capital schemes from concept to detailed planning level.
Our repertoire of design work spans:
- Site option appraisals
- Site master planning
- Concept building plans at 1:1250 level
- Organisation of buildings at 1:500 level
- Departmental configurations at 1:200 level and
- Detailed 1:50 loaded plans.
For more information on this range of services please contact us at info@shp-uk.com

