Knowledge and Innovation Partnerships

What Knowledge and Innovation Partnerships does

Knowledge and Innovation Partnerships Ltd. is a privately-held UK management consultancy founded in 2013 (with operational activity traceable to 2005), headquartered in Stockport, that delivers innovation, knowledge management, and digital platform services exclusively to the UK health and social care sector. Its client base comprises NHS trusts and clinical commissioning groups, royal colleges (notably the Royal College of General Practitioners and Royal College of Psychiatrists), central government bodies (Department of Health, Ministry of Justice, and predecessor agencies such as NIMHE and CSIP), and regional health networks, with engagements spanning consultancy and advice, communications strategy, training and coaching, programme evaluation, and technical application development. The firm's proposition is founded on deep health-sector domain expertise and a co-production methodology that pairs consultants with client teams.

The company's productised output consists of a named portfolio of web platforms and knowledge portals — Dementia Roadmap, Dementia Partnerships, Mental Health Partnerships, Caring for Carers Hubs, QI Ready, GP at Scale, JCPMH website, Choice and Medication, Autism Somerset, and the Greater Manchester Primary Care Careers platform — built principally on open-source and commodity tooling, including Limesurvey for self-assessment and survey, Tiki-wiki for community engagement, Google Maps and Google Analytics for visualisation and intelligence, and XML-based integrations with the NHS Jobs feed for automated vacancy curation. These platforms are co-produced with clients and structured around clinical commissioning cycles, providing curated knowledge, learning resources, and patient-facing information rather than enterprise SaaS in a traditional subscription sense. Proprietary differentiation lies in integration interoperability (XMLReader + cron-driven feeds, Limesurvey + Tiki-wiki + Google combinations, Google Maps overlays for European partner networks) rather than any defensible underlying technology.

Revenue is generated through bespoke, project-based professional services engagements (consultancy, training, coaching, evaluation) and bespoke platform builds, primarily won via direct relationships and tendered public-sector contracts with NHS bodies, royal colleges, and UK government departments. Distribution is direct sales-led with no disclosed pricing, no productised SaaS pricing model, no third-party resellers, and no publicly disclosed revenue, funding, or headcount metrics beyond a self-description as a small team of 1-10 entrepreneurs. The firm has not raised external capital, operates from a single registered office in Stockport, and shows no evidence of recent hiring, acquisitions, or expanded geographic reach beyond England.

Name

Knowledge and Innovation Partnerships

Legal name

Knowledge and Innovation Partnerships Ltd.

Website

https://knowledgepartnerships.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2013

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Knowledge and Innovation Partnerships is a UK-based management consultancy (founded 2013, Stockport) that delivers innovation, knowledge management, communications, training, and bespoke digital platforms exclusively to NHS trusts, royal colleges, and UK government health and social care bodies.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Healthcare Knowledge Management Consulting

NAICS

Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services (5416), Other Management Consulting Services (541618), Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151)

SIC

Services-Management Consulting Services (8742), Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373)

akta.pro primary industry

Digital Workplace & Collaboration Consulting (BPAHAEAH)

akta.pro secondary industries

Global Health Research, Evidence & Technical Assistance Organizations (HLAJAKAN), Data, Surveillance & Digital Public Goods Partnerships for Global Health (HLAJAOAN), Research, Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning (MEL) Partnerships (EDADALAK)

Keywords

• Management consulting services
• Knowledge management consulting
• Healthcare digital platforms
• Social software development
• Training and evaluation services

Headquarters

HQ city

Stockport

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure, Others

Revenue model

1. Consultancy Services: Providing consultancy and advice to shape a better future for clients' businesses, including knowledge management and communications strategy support
2. Training and Development: Designing and delivering tailored training programmes that are practical, interactive and fun, helping people commit to making a positive difference in their day-to-day work
3. Technical Expertise and Application Development: Building technical applications and providing technical expertise to help deliver first-class people-driven technical applications while avoiding IT project pitfalls
4. Communications Support: Developing communications that sell the benefits of clients' work and products to their customers using a social marketing approach
5. Coaching: Coaching individuals and teams to transform relationships within organisations and harness potential for self-improvement
6. Evaluation: Systematic evaluation of projects to help prove impact and develop understanding of what works

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Knowledge and Innovation Partnerships provides management consulting, training, communications, technical application development, coaching, and evaluation services to UK health and social care organisations. The company also develops and maintains a portfolio of bespoke web-based knowledge portals and digital platforms (such as Dementia Roadmap, Mental Health Partnerships, QI Ready, and Greater Manchester Primary Care Careers) that support knowledge sharing across NHS trusts, royal colleges, and government health programmes.

Product overview

Knowledge and Innovation Partnerships is a UK-based consultancy providing a portfolio of health and social care web platforms and knowledge portals. Their offering consists of a suite of named digital products including knowledge portals (Dementia Partnerships, Mental Health Partnerships), primary care platforms (Dementia Roadmap, Caring for Carers Hubs, QI Ready learning network, GP at Scale learning network, Greater Manchester Primary Care Careers platform), and condition-specific resources (Choice and medication, Autism Somerset). These are complemented by professional services including consultancy, technical expertise, communications support, training, evaluation, and coaching.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Consultancy and Advice Bespoke consultancy engagement where the company listens to client needs and provides advice to help shape a better future for the client's business, with deep expertise in knowledge management across the UK health and social care sector.
• Technical Expertise and Application Development Design and build of first-class people-driven technical applications, helping clients avoid common IT project pitfalls while delivering web-based platforms, content management systems, and bespoke integrations for health and social care clients.
• Communications Support Development of communications that sell the benefits of clients' work and products to their customers using a social marketing approach, supporting engagement with patients, carers, staff, and wider stakeholders.
• Training and Development Design and delivery of tailored training programmes that are practical, interactive and fun, helping people commit to making a positive difference in their day-to-day work within health and social care settings.
• Evaluation Systematic evaluation of projects to help prove impact and develop understanding of what works, supporting clients to demonstrate outcomes and improve performance across health and social care initiatives.
• Coaching Coaching of individuals and teams to transform relationships within organisations and harness potential for self-improvement, grounded in the belief that everyone has something to learn and everyone has something to share.

Quantifiable outcome

• Knowledge Community reached 6,500 registered members and 365+ groups within its first years
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers11 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration8 records

Feature4 records

Partnerships

14 partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Greater Manchester Health & Social Care Partnership (GMHSCP)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 20 January 2021Collaborating to develop the Greater Manchester Primary Care Careers platform, a network of websites to promote a sustainable and thriving primary care workforce across Greater Manchester. The platform combines XML-based NHS Jobs integration with curated content about working and living in Greater Manchester.
• Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 11 March 2017Longstanding strategic partnership with RCGP spanning multiple major digital platform development projects including QI Ready learning network (2017), GP at Scale learning network (2016), Dementia Roadmap (2015), Caring for Carers Hubs (2016), Dementia Partnerships (2015), and Mental Health Partnerships (2014). The RCGP collaboration is a flagship relationship involving online resource development for primary care quality improvement, workforce development, and clinical care support across the UK.
• Joint Commissioning Panel for Mental Health (JCPMH)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerJCPMH is a collaboration between seventeen leading organisations co-chaired by the Royal College of Psychiatrists and the Royal College of General Practitioners. Knowledge and Innovation Partnerships developed the JCPMH website providing practical guidance on mental illness, dementia and learning disabilities commissioning, and guidance on public mental health and values-based commissioning.
• HeadshiftminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerSocial software developers Headshift partnered with Care Services Improvement Partnership to develop the Knowledge Community website, which won the 2005 Innovation in Knowledge Management award at the International Information Industry Awards.
• Care Services Improvement Partnership (CSIP)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerKnowledge and Innovation Partnerships developed the Knowledge Community in partnership with CSIP and key stakeholders. Rowan Purdy served as national strategic knowledge management lead and senior client manager for CSIP. The Knowledge Community provided an online environment for people interested in forming communities to support improvement in care services.
• Norfolk and Waveney Mental Health NHS Foundation TrustcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMulti-sector partnership project involving Norfolk and Waveney Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, United Kingdom Psychiatric Pharmacy Group, and National Institute for Mental Health in England to develop the Choice and Medication website providing information about prescribed psychiatric medication for patients, families, carers, doctors, nurses and pharmacists.
• United Kingdom Psychiatric Pharmacy Group (UKPPG)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership in the Choice and Medication project to develop a website providing information about psychiatric medications used in mental health settings to help people make informed decisions about medication, working with UKPPG's pharmaceutical expertise.
• Royal College of PsychiatristscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-chair of JCPMH alongside Royal College of General Practitioners. JCPMH develops practical guidance on mental illness, dementia and learning disabilities, and values-based commissioning guidance for commissioners across the UK.
• Public Health Executive Agency of the Commission of the European CommunitiesminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerFunding partner for the Monitoring Mental Health Environments (MMHE) project, which collected and analysed data on positive mental health across 17 European regions and assessed how data is used to effect regional strategies, policies and programmes to promote mental health at community level.
• Dementia Partnerships portalminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerSpecialist knowledge portal bringing together networks, organisations, groups and individuals to share knowledge and learning to improve services and promote living well with dementia, organised around the commissioning cycle.
• Mental Health Partnerships portalminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerSpecialist knowledge portal supporting clinician led partnerships to accelerate and improve commissioning and service redesign in mental health care, offering curated summaries about the latest research, policy and practice developments, organised around the commissioning cycle.
• Ministry of Justice and Department of Health (National Personality Disorder Programme)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerProvided knowledge management and strategic communications support to the national personality disorder programme jointly managed by the Ministry of Justice and the Department of Health, including website development specification and communications strategy.
• MINDFUL projectminorOthersThe Monitoring Mental Health Environments project is complementary to work developed in the MINDFUL project, Health Cluster Net project, and European Community Health Indicators (ECHI) programme.
• Mental Health Alliance South WestminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerMulti-agency mental health network developing a website for people in South West England with an interest in improving mental health services, support for people with mental health problems, and promoting mental health and wellbeing. The Steering Group is 50% service users and carers.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• ZPB Associates: UK healthcare strategy and communications consultancy working with NHS bodies, royal colleges and life sciences clients. Highly comparable in client base, vertical focus and blend of strategic advice with communications and digital delivery.
• Incisive Health: Independent UK health policy and communications consultancy. Comparable in serving NHS, Royal Colleges and patient organisations with communications, stakeholder engagement and digital advocacy support.
• MHP Health (MHP Group): UK health communications and public affairs consultancy. Comparable mix of NHS-facing communications, patient engagement and policy support work delivered to UK health bodies and pharma/charity sectors.
• Reason Digital: Digital agency specialising in health, charity and public-sector web platforms. Comparable in building bespoke digital products and knowledge portals for UK health and not-for-profit clients.
• Carnall Farrar: UK healthcare consultancy advising NHS trusts, ICSs and government on strategy, transformation and operations. Comparable in deep NHS-only focus and blend of strategic advisory with delivery support.
• Edge Health: UK health analytics and consulting firm supporting NHS trusts and systems. Comparable in serving English NHS bodies with focused, sector-specialist advisory and analytical services.
• Candesic: Independent UK healthcare consultancy advising providers, payors and government. Comparable in delivering strategic and operational consulting into UK and European health systems.
• The Health Policy Partnership: UK health policy and communications consultancy producing research, policy reports and stakeholder engagement for health organisations. Comparable in blending policy content with stakeholder engagement for UK and European health clients.

Broad incumbents

• PA Consulting: Global consultancy with a sizeable UK health and life sciences practice serving NHS and government. Comparable in providing strategy, digital and transformation services to UK health bodies but at significantly larger scale and broader portfolio than KIP.

Others

• The King's Fund: Independent charitable foundation working on UK health policy, leadership development and knowledge dissemination for NHS leaders. Comparable as a knowledge/insight ecosystem serving the same NHS audience KIP supports, though structured as a think tank rather than a commercial consultancy.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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