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Strategic Healthcare Planning was formed in 1996 and has broad experience and a strong track record of working with healthcare related organisations. We have a skilled and experienced team of healthcare planners able to:
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 Lead and manage planning processes;
Facilitate the engagement of clinical teams;
Assemble, lead and coordinate multidisciplinary teams;
Analyse data;
Draft documents; and
Deliver products to time and budget.

Our range of products span the spectrum of Health Service, Capital and Estate Planning and can be summarised as follows:
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Strategic documents such as: Business Cases for:
Estate strategies; Service Rationalisation;
Service development strategies; Capital schemes - for Acute Services, Mental Health, Learning
Disability, Primary and Community Care Services;
Strategic Service Development Plans (SSDPs)
Service remodelling and option appraisals Strategic Outline Cases, Outline Business Cases and Full Business Cases;
Site Master Planning: Revenue developments.
Development Control Plans; Support to NHS organisations for PFI & LIFT initiatives:
Concept Building Designs; Preparation of documents;
Building plans from 1:1250 through to 1:50 loaded Negotiating with the Private Sector;
plans. Development of Output Specifications.
Adjacency and Flow Diagrams for: Schedules of:
Functional relationship requirements between Functional content to support service option appraisal and estate planning;
departments; Accommodation to support capital scheme costing and design
Room clustering requirements to meet departmental development.
model of care; Reports on:
Mapping patient journeys. Capacity Planning - based on service analysis and performance
Specifications for: benchmarking;
Clinical departments; Remodelling of services - between sites, across health economies and
Non-clinical departments;
 between health sectors;
Whole hospital policies. Option appraisal and feasibility studies.
Support to Private Sector PFI and LIFT Consortia:
Briefing the consortia on high level understanding of Trust and PCT clinical and wider objectives;

Briefing the design and construction team on clinical output specification;

Contributing to the development of innovative clinical models for whole site and departmental planning;

Developing and managing schedules of accommodation and overall space budgets;

Leading meetings with NHS clinical and project staff to explore strategies, options and to validate requirements;

Exploring and developing whole hospital models of care, patient, staff and visitor flows and developing departmental adjacency matrices in conjunction with Trust staff

Supporting the design team through later design stages acting as a ‘proxy’ client to validate the conformity of emerging designs at 1:500 level against whole hospital specifications and project team requirements;

Similarly exploring and developing models of care, patient and staff flows to inform room adjacency requirements within departments

Validating the conformity of emerging designs at 1:200 level against departmental specifications and user group preferences;

Advising on the appropriate room specifications and RDS requirements;
Contributing to the development of submission documents and drafting appropriate sections;

Contributing to the development of interim and final presentations of schemes presenting Healthcare Planning and strategy sections;

Supporting the Consortia and Trust at Preferred bidder stage with resolving affordability issues and variations to the design brief.