We are a team of specialist healthcare planners with unrivalled experience and expertise in the planning and development of healthcare services and facilities. Our experience is founded on many years of work with a wide range of clients exclusively within the healthcare and related sectors. Our knowledge enables us to challenge, share, innovate and encourage best practice in the development of new services and facilities to support the ever changing and health caring environment.
2016 marked a very special year for SHP as we celebrated our 20th anniversary. Whilst reflecting on our success and all the people who have made it possible, we will be continuing to promote the broad understanding and capability we have gained since we began in January 1996: Our clients will benefit from the knowledge and experience that we have acquired, and continue to offer, as we expand and plan for the future.
Our clients benefit from receiving a bespoke and tailored scope of services that is specific to their needs and vision, made possible by the collective skills mix we are able to assemble – both in-house and via our established group of associates. This ‘build-a-team’ approach has proved extremely successful and enables us to offer a diverse and collaborative range of creative responses.
Inherent in our way of thinking and working is firstly the need to empathise with, and understand the client’s requirements in order to articulate and realise what is feasible and viable, the second is to develop appropriate and affordable proposals with the proper understanding of both the clinical processes and the procurement options. The overarching obligation upon everyone at SHP is the need to communicate clearly at every step of the way.
John is a Partner of SHP and since formation in 1996 has been providing consultancy services to the wider healthcare industry with proven success in the planning and design of the full range of healthcare facilities including District General and University Hospitals, Mental Health and Primary Care. John has also been advising the Public and Private Sector in the PPP arena and has been acknowledged as one of the country’s leading advisors in this field.
Chris is a founding Partner of SHP with his primary functions including working directly with healthcare and facilities management personnel in the preparations of project briefs, developing models of care and patient pathways along with assessing functional content standards.
In addition to the above, Chris has extensive experience in developing the estates component of Business Cases, defining Functional Requirements and Public Sector. Chris has also been actively involved in both UK and International healthcare projects.
Huw is an Architect and a Partner of SHP with considerable experience in the detailed planning and design of healthcare facilities including District General, University and Community Hospitals; Health Education & Research Facilities, Mental Health Facilities and Primary Care Facilities. Huw covers all work stages from concept studies demonstrating design visions with users, through preparation of project briefs, option appraisal, feasibility reports, utilisation studies and estate strategies.
Jeremy is a Partner of SHP and brings many years experience of developing hospital solutions in the UK and overseas, particularly in PFI (PPP), successfully combining design and construction together with facilities management and finance. He is skilled in bringing the Public Sector and Private Sector together, providing strategic input and challenging long-term operational matters.
Asiye joined SHP when the company opened its office, SHP Sağlık Tasarım Danışmanlığı, in Ankara in 2014 in the role of Office Manager responsible for the administration of all SHPs activity in Turkey. She joined SHP from her previous post with the British Embassy where she acted as the liaison point for the introduction of NHS healthcare companies to the Turkish market through the activities of UKTI.
An experienced administrator and operational manager within secondary care, Nicola has worked in the NHS environment for 12 years, working with multi-professional clinical teams. Key duties included project management within a PFI commissioning team and operational management within neurosciences and elderly care. Nicola joined SHP as a healthcare planner, and has already supported a number of projects by providing technical information and room standardisation in Schedules of Accommodation along with development of Room Data Sheets.
Carolyn is a healthcare planner and brings over 30 years NHS operational and strategic managerial experience in FM, clinical support, estates development and capital planning. Carolyn has a proven track record of successful project management and has taken the lead on a number of large projects from inception, implementation commissioning and operation. Throughout her career Carolyn has managed large multi disciplinary teams of staff and has been responsible for implementing major service change particularly in facilities management.
Emma is a healthcare planner with 20 years NHS managerial experience at a strategic and operational level, including a range of Emergency, Acute Medical and Surgical Specialties, Community and Integrated Services; she has a passion for emergency and elderly care services and led the development and implementation of the award winning Supported Integrated Discharge service. Emma has been responsible for implementing major service change alongside delivery of operational performance targets.
Our associate Sue is a dynamic healthcare professional with extensive experience and a successful track record in the identification of strategic direction of both service and capital developments, the subsequent development of relevant project briefs, business cases, planning, project management and post-project evaluation. Sue brings unique insight to projects as a result of her experiences across a wide healthcare spectrum including nursing, Trust Board level management, capital planning, project planning, management and procurement
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