Consultancy

Programme and project management

Outcome-focused project and programme support, delivered on site with your team. We apply the principles of PRINCE2 and MSP, drawn from years of managing projects in health and care, without the paperwork that gets in the way.

Every organisation we work with has more good ideas than capacity to deliver them. Our role is to turn an idea into a project with a clear vision and scope, run it with the right governance and reporting, and close it properly so the benefits land in business as usual.

Our consultants are PRINCE2 and MSP practitioners who have managed projects and programmes inside Training Hubs, integrated care systems, trusts and councils. They work on site, inside your governance, and are judged on outcomes rather than documents.

Four stages, as much structure as the project needs

We treat these four stages as the minimum needed to manage a project successfully. How much documentation sits behind each one depends on the size and risk of the work.

  1. Identification (pre-project)

    Shaping the idea, setting a clear vision, scoping the project and drafting the business case and core documents, so that the decision to proceed is an informed one.

  2. Definition and initiation

    Finalising the documentation, setting up governance and a project board, agreeing deliverables, timeline and budget, and defining how benefits will be measured.

  3. Delivery

    Managing the project with the right tools and reporting, tracking risks and issues in registers and logs, and controlling scope through a formal change request process.

  4. Closure

    Reviewing performance against the baseline, capturing lessons learned, handing unrealised benefits to business as usual and evaluating what was delivered.

What we bring

  • Programme management of multi-organisation transformation work across health and social care
  • Governance design: boards, terms of reference, reporting cycles and escalation routes that people actually use
  • Stakeholder engagement across clinicians, managers, commissioners, councils and the voluntary sector
  • Benefits realisation and evaluation built in from the start, not bolted on at the end
  • Capacity when you need it: an interim programme manager, a PMO function or a single project lead

Where we have done this

We have programme-managed Training Hubs across seven London boroughs and systems, a workforce workstream for the North Central London health and care partnership, nursing associate apprenticeship programmes for North Central and North West London, and dozens of individual projects..

We value long-term relationships with our clients, and we aim to create strategies and programmes that leave a lasting legacy after we have gone.

Tell us what you're trying to change

A programme that needs managing, a service that needs evaluating, a team that needs developing. Describe it in a few lines and we'll come back within two working days.