Health Spaces

What Health Spaces does

Health Spaces Limited is a UK-based healthcare design and construction consultancy that delivers integrated strategy, design, and construction services for healthcare environments, working primarily with NHS Trusts, Integrated Care Systems, and a secondary base of private healthcare providers. The company's core offering is structured around three service modules - Healthcare Strategy, Healthcare Design, and Healthcare Construction - delivered as a single seamless methodology intended to keep projects connected from earliest concept through operational completion and to avoid the design-delivery handoff problems common in NHS capital programmes. Its project portfolio spans acute care (e.g., Croydon Elective Centre, Walsall ringfenced elective wing, James Paget Concept Ward), community and primary care (Wood Green Community Diagnostic Centre, Dorset Health on the High Street), and mental health (Mersey Care Mossley Hill 80-bed facility), with modular construction and BIM-based delivery (ISO 19650 certified) as underlying technical capabilities.

The business operates on a project-based professional services revenue model, with pricing negotiated per engagement and most go-to-market activity channelled through NHS public procurement frameworks, specifically positions on the ESPO Framework and the £1.6bn NHS Shared Business Services modular framework. The GTM motion is enterprise field sales targeted at NHS change-makers, reinforced by the FORTIS thought leadership platform (digital and print magazine, industry roundtables) as a content-driven demand generation and relationship-building channel. The company has accumulated a compliance and certification stack - ISO 9001, 14001, 45001, 27001, ISO 19650 BIM, SafeContractor, and Crown Commercial Service supplier registration - that is functionally a procurement prerequisite rather than a marketing claim.

Health Spaces is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Specialist Health Solutions, a healthcare-focused group that has been operating for over 10 years and provides operational and reputational backing. The company is registered in the UK (company number 13305967), headquartered at 20 Victoria Street, Westminster, with a second studio in Leeds opened in March 2024, and operates in the 11-50 employee band. No funding rounds, M&A activity, revenue figures, or public listing events are disclosed in the available source material.

Name

Health Spaces

Legal name

Health Spaces Limited

Website

https://health-spaces.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Health Spaces is a UK-based healthcare consultancy providing integrated strategy, design, and construction delivery services for NHS Trusts and private healthcare providers, covering acute, community, mental health, and outpatient environments through NHS procurement frameworks.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

London

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Healthcare Consultancy Services: Strategy, design and delivery consulting services for NHS and private healthcare estates, including healthcare strategy, healthcare design, and healthcare construction consultancy. Revenue generated through project-based professional services contracts, often via NHS procurement frameworks.
2. Healthcare Construction and Build Services: End-to-end delivery of healthcare environments including acute care, community care, mental health facilities, and non-clinical support spaces. Delivered as construction projects under frameworks or direct contracts.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Health Spaces is a UK healthcare design and construction consultancy that delivers an integrated methodology combining healthcare strategy, design, and construction to create future-ready healthcare environments. The company primarily serves NHS Trusts and private healthcare providers across the United Kingdom, with positioning on NHS procurement frameworks (ESPO and NHS Shared Business Services) for direct public sector access.

Product overview

Health Spaces is an award-winning healthcare consultancy that delivers integrated methodology combining strategy, design, and delivery to create future-ready healthcare environments. The company operates as part of Specialist Health Solutions and works primarily with NHS Trusts and private healthcare providers. Their core offering spans Healthcare Consultancy (comprising Healthcare Strategy, Healthcare Design, and Healthcare Construction services), paired with specialised Healthcare Environments expertise across Acute Care, Community & Primary Care, Ambulatory & Outpatient, Mental Health & Wellbeing, and Non-Clinical & Support settings. Additionally, they operate FORTIS Magazine as their thought leadership platform for the healthcare sector.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• FORTIS: A thought leadership platform created by Health Spaces for NHS change makers and leaders, offering articles, insights, and discussions about healthcare estates and future of healthcare.

Products and services

• Healthcare Consultancy Integrated consultancy service covering healthcare strategy, design, and construction consultancy that helps NHS Trusts and private healthcare providers deliver better healthcare environments. Brings strategy, design and delivery together into one seamless approach.
• Acute Care Environments Design and delivery services for acute care hospital settings and facilities, including wards, surgical hubs, elective centres, and critical care environments for NHS Trusts.
• Community & Primary Care Environments Design, planning and delivery services for community and primary care healthcare facilities, supporting Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) and Primary Care Networks (PCNs) to shift care from acute to community settings.
• Ambulatory & Outpatient Environments Specialist design and delivery for ambulatory and outpatient care settings, including community diagnostic centres and health-on-the-high-street models repurposing retail units for healthcare delivery.
• Mental Health & Wellbeing Environments Design and delivery of therapeutic environments for mental health and wellbeing care settings, including purpose-built inpatient mental health facilities and dormitory ward eradication programmes.
• Non-Clinical & Support Environments Design and planning services for non-clinical healthcare support spaces within hospital and care environments.

Quantifiable outcome

• Dorset NHS reduced orthopaedic waiting list by 52% and dermatology tripled pre-pandemic capacity using repurposed retail space for outpatients
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers9 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

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered core, major and supporting.

• Specialist Health SolutionscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerHealth Spaces is part of Specialist Health Solutions, a parent group that has been delivering healthcare solutions alongside hospitals for over 10 years, serving millions of patients worldwide. This parent company relationship underpins Health Spaces' market positioning and operational scale.
• NHS (NHS Trusts and ICSs)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerHealth Spaces works extensively with NHS Trusts and Integrated Care Systems across England on estate transformation projects, from strategy through to delivery. NHS organisations are the primary customers and collaborative partners in healthcare design and construction projects.
• ESPO (Education Services and Purchasing Organisation)coreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorHealth Spaces was awarded a position on the ESPO Framework for modular healthcare buildings, enabling NHS and public sector bodies to procure Health Spaces services directly through the framework agreement.
• NHS Shared Business ServicescoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorHealth Spaces secured a position on the £1.6bn NHS Shared Business Services modular framework, providing pre-approved access to NHS Trusts for modular building and healthcare environment services.
• Capital & RegionalmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCapital & Regional, owners of The Mall Shopping Centre, partnered with Whittington Health NHS Trust and Health Spaces on the Wood Green Community Diagnostic Centre. The partnership won an HSJ award for best consultancy partnership.
• Gilling DodmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerGilling Dod is the architecture firm partnered with Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust on the Mossley Hill mental health facility. Health Spaces was the contractor/delivery partner for this project.
• Trusted Network of Specialists and PartnerssupportingTechnology or IntegrationHealth Spaces works with a trusted network of specialists and partners to bring the right expertise into every project, complementing the core integrated team.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• Arup: Global design, engineering and consultancy firm with a significant healthcare buildings practice working on NHS hospital design and estates strategy. Broader incumbent with overlapping healthcare design expertise but wider portfolio.
• Laing O'Rourke: International construction firm with a UK healthcare practice delivering NHS acute hospital schemes (and parent of half of IHP). Broader incumbent that competes for major NHS capital programmes at a different scale.
• Balfour Beatty: Major UK infrastructure and construction group with a healthcare and hospitals division that delivers NHS capital projects. Larger incumbent with overlapping NHS construction work, but competing on scale rather than integrated healthcare specialism.

Direct peers

• Currie & Brown: International construction and infrastructure consultancy with significant UK healthcare cost consultancy and project management work for NHS estates. Comparable in consultancy-led NHS estate advisory and project oversight.
• Darwin Group: Welsh-based modular healthcare construction specialist providing offsite hospital and clinical buildings to NHS Trusts across the UK. Direct competitor in modular acute, community and diagnostic builds.
• Premier Modular: UK modular construction provider serving healthcare, education and public sectors with offsite building solutions, including NHS modular clinical facilities. Overlaps on modular healthcare delivery.
• Portakabin (Modulaire Group): Major UK modular building supplier with a dedicated healthcare division delivering interim and permanent clinical facilities to NHS Trusts. Comparable on modular healthcare delivery and NHS framework access.
• MTX Contracts: UK specialist in modular healthcare construction, delivering offsite hospital wards, theatres and diagnostic facilities for NHS Trusts. Closely comparable in modular methodology and NHS framework positioning.
• Gleeds: Global construction consultancy providing cost management and project management services to NHS Trusts and healthcare clients. Comparable in the consultancy arm of healthcare estates delivery.
• Integrated Health Projects (IHP): Joint venture between VINCI Construction UK and Sir Robert McAlpine, specifically created to deliver NHS acute hospital projects under ProCure22 and successor frameworks. Directly comparable as a healthcare-specialist construction provider competing for the same NHS capital work.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/health-spaces

Compliance6 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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