Jonathan Hughes

Jonathan has 25 years’ experience of healthcare advisory roles, gained across a range of prestigious schemes in the United Kingdom, Europe and the middle East. With a background in healthcare design research, Jonathan’s portfolio ranges across secondary, tertiary and quaternary schemes for both public sector and private clients.

John Higgins

John is a clinical planner with expertise across the entire healthcare economy, from tertiary acute schemes through to mental health and primary care projects. John has wide-ranging experience of the procurement of healthcare facilities under the UK private finance initiative, the NHS Estates Procure 21+ framework and traditional routes.

Our approach

• Contextual: we always try to consider schemes in their wider context, recognising the demands and aspirations of many stakeholders in any healthcare project.
• Analytical & open-minded: we recognise the importance of evidence-based design, but equally acknowledge the importance of local requirements and the need for project-specific responses.
• Collaborative, facilitating, inclusive: we do not believe in promoting our approach to the exclusion of other voices, but rather seek a negotiated consensus to the demands of any scheme.
• Flexible & sensitive to diverse user requirements: we believe we are responsive to the needs of wide range of participants in healthcare projects, from patients and their carers, to clinicians, managers and service commissioners.
• Explanatory, non-technical: we seek to make our briefing material as intelligible and self-explanatory as possible, avoiding jargon and obfuscation wherever possible.
• Informed by emergent practice & technology: we recognise the ever-changing landscape of clinical practice and seek to underwrite our projects with the flexibility to respond.