Our healthcare strategy and planning team has completed almost 500 assignments in the UK and internationally since our beginnings in 2013. The depth and breadth of our experience span all sectors including acute, community, primary care and mental health and across all aspects of health, education and research. We carry out high-level strategic reviews of clinical and academic service reconfiguration and estate infrastructure strategies, developing detailed operational policies and supporting at the commissioning stages of projects.

We have successfully delivered projects and best-practice workshops across Europe, MENA and Australia.

Our consultants have diverse but complementary backgrounds including clinical, research, architecture and process re-engineering and transformation, informatics, finance and operational management. Additionally, through our relationship with Kings Health Partners, we have unique access to the expertise and experience of a leading academic and health sciences system.

We offer the full range of advisory services from system-wide health needs assessment and demand and capacity modelling to simulation modelling of flows and resource utilisation.

What we do

• Population health needs assessment
• Market analysis
• Demand and capacity modelling
• Health data analytics
• Simulation modelling
• Clinical strategies and reviews
• Service transformation
• Service re-design, process improvement and service optimisation
• Business case development
• Health economics and financial modelling
• Social value modelling
• Functional and operational briefing and compliance
• Digital and sustainability integration
• Master planning and estate strategies
• Healthcare space planning and design revisions
• Health strategies and policies
• Clinical workforce strategy and workforce planning
• Due diligence reviews
• Lean in health
• Stakeholder facilitation
• Transition and commissioning planning
• Technical design guidelines and standards

To find out more about what we do visit what is healthcare planning?

Our team is highly experienced in managing property for the NHS and other public sector organisations. We encourage clients to look at their portfolio to understand what they’ve already got – it’s often more valuable and capable of supporting strategic change than they realise.

With the NHS under severe financial constraints including CDEL, we have to learn to do things differently. This might involve an NHS Trust sharing facilities with a local authority, or a hospital leasing a property rather than owning it. Technology will also have a huge impact on how we think about property and space.

We consider the estate from a holistic perspective, incorporating clinical strategy, healthcare planning, capital development, technology, digital and sustainability.

It is easy to procure our services – we are proud to be one of the suppliers on the prestigious Crown Commercial Services (CCS) framework to supply Estates Professional Services. We cover London, South East and East Anglia.

We are also on other key public sector frameworks including:

• NHS Commercial Solutions Property and Estates Consultancy Services Framework
• NHS London Procurement Partnership
• SBS Consult 18: Multidisciplinary Consultancy Services Framework
• ESPO Estates Management Professional Services Framework
• NHS Property Services – Framework for the Provision of Property Development Management Services

What we do

• Collaborative asset management
• Redevelopment and planning
• Property rationalisation
• Joint ventures
• Strategic property reviews
• Lease acquisition or exits
• Freehold acquisition or disposal
• Property valuation and negotiations
• Development appraisals
• Portfolio management
• Relocations management

We work in partnership with our clients to provide robust commercial strategies that align with their business objectives, and support and enhance the effective delivery of all projects. Our consultants provide independent and impartial advice that can be trusted, with a clear focus on informed and accurate cost advice to support strategic decision making, deliver better outcomes, and safeguard our clients' commercial interests at all times. We work collaboratively with designers and the supply chain, and challenge where necessary to achieve high-quality results while providing a cost-effective and efficient service.

What we do

• Feasibility studies
• Benchmarking
• Peer reviews
• Health checks and cost audits
• Cost planning
• Lifecycle costing
• Procurement strategies/advice
• Tender documentation
• Change management
• Contract administration
• Business case support
• Risk and value management.

Our team of expert project managers has the experience to deliver highly complex and transformational projects, right across the Health and Life Sciences sectors. We take time to understand the needs of each of our clients, and how investment in their estate will allow them to transform their research, clinical or teaching outcomes.

For us, project management is a people-focused business, and through our collective approach to stakeholder management, we build a collaborative project culture, focused on taking our clients with us on each step of the development lifecycle - business case, pre-construction planning, construction and operational.

Our team has built a strong reputation based on the enduring relationships we have formed with our clients, and by seeing every problem as a challenge yet to be solved.

What we do

• Project management (pre-construction)
• Employer’s agent
• Contract administration/construction management
• Business case development
• Value management
• Schedule/programme development
• Procurement management
• Project audits

Our programme management team has the experience and expertise to develop effective programme delivery structures and create collaborative environments to help deliver healthcare, higher education and scientific research facilities programmes.

Our work ranges from small, one-off commissions focused on one specific aspect of a programme, to large multi-layered long term solutions that deliver multiple programme tranches.

We have a strategic, collaborative and open-minded approach, often ‘starting with the end in mind’, using a range of techniques to help our clients plan for success and make the right decisions that will transform their business.

For us, programme management is a people-focused activity, and we work closely with our clients to provide the right level of support to enable their programmes to be successfully delivered, in often highly complex environments with competing stakeholder demands, high regulatory requirements and complex governance arrangements.

Our team has built a strong reputation based on the enduring relationships we have formed with our clients, and by seeing every problem as a challenge yet to be solved.

What we do

• Strategic planning and review
• Programme leadership, programme management office
• Programme reporting, programme set up, programme recovery/turnaround
• Programme and project health checks, programme governance and controls
• Estates function diagnostics reviews
• Estates audit and health checks
• Operational readiness
• Value management
• Value engineering
• Risk management and benefits management
• Transition planning and commissioning
• PFI advice, workshop facilitation
• Business case development
• Move management
• Process review and improvement

Capabilities

• Finance, economic and ESG support and analysis for investment decision appraisals
• Commercial, procurement and transaction structuring
• Navigating and developing governance structures and approval processes
• Solutions that reach across the asset life cycle from strategic planning through transactional arrangements to operational management
• Modern Methods of Construction, Building Information Modelling, Intelligent Buildings and Standardisation in Design

What we do

• HM Treasury Green Book compliant project appraisal
• Business case development by accredited Better Business Case™ practitioners, including management, authorship and support for all cases
• Investment appraisal modelling
• Financial/non-financial modelling, analysis and model reviews
• Commercial support for investment decision making and development appraisal
• Social Value assessment support and modelling
• Financial and commercial support to procurements, the development of asset and/or service-based partnerships and contractual relationships
• Support to develop transactions and deal structure with partners
• PFI/PPP contract and exit support

Our hands-on experience and personalised offering set us apart - we take time to fully understand our clients’ priorities and bring insight and subject matter expertise to ensure our work is robust, leading-edge and technically assured. We engage stakeholders and address carbon hotspots and quick wins to deliver transformational change.

What we do

• Strategic development and implementation: green planning, heat decarbonisation planning, travel planning, sustainable procurement support
• Communications and support: stakeholder engagement, education, development and governance
• Sustainable design and net zero buildings: strategic guidance to deliver net zero
• Funding support and business case development: enabling transformational change
• Sustainability-based procurement frameworks management and support

Strategic development and implementation

We work in partnership with our clients to engage stakeholders, advise on and embed sustainability governance, and capitalise on funding opportunities. We develop pathways to net zero by analysing energy usage and existing infrastructure and make detailed recommendations to transition to zero carbon. From quick wins like LED lighting to wide-scale deployment of heat pumps or hydrogen boilers, Lexica weighs up the challenges and opportunities to set out a route to decarbonisation for our clients

Communications and support

Lexica supports our clients to make sustainability and net zero carbon relevant and accessible: we develop communications campaigns, branding strategies and materials such as walking maps to engage staff and stakeholders. We support our clients to hear a wide range of voices through easy-to-access workshops and short, fun stakeholder surveys

Sustainable design and net zero buildings

Lexica embeds net zero carbon thinking into the built environment. We support our clients with clear guidance on delivering net-zero buildings, and baking wellness into new and refurbished buildings

Funding support and business case development

Lexica adds value with our expert funding application and cost management support. With our technical expertise and depth of understanding of complex energy and infrastructure project, we are uniquely positioned to support clients with grant and loan financing opportunities. We work with clients and advisors to define project parameters for business case development, and shape leading business cases that reflect decision makers’ key priorities, particularly around net zero carbon delivery. Lexica has a successful track record in helping public sector organisations with funding applications: we have assisted over 20 organisations in Phase 1 of the Public sector Decarbonisation Scheme (PSDS).

Sustainability-based procurement frameworks and support

Lexica manages leading supplier frameworks for public sector bodies to access specific sustainability and net-zero carbon expertise and products quickly. We provide robust and compliant procurement documentation that is bespoke to each opportunity and ensure that sustainability remains at the centre of the decision-making process. Our sustainability frameworks are flexible, leading-edge and free to access.

Net Zero Carbon Delivery Framework provides a one-stop shop for UK public sector bodies looking for a compliant avenue to implement low/zero-carbon technologies and energy solutions.

LED Lighting Framework provides access to six suppliers who can provide full led lighting solutions including the design, supply and install.

Energy Performance Contracting (EPC) Framework delivers significant cost and carbon savings through an Energy Service Company.

Who are they for?

All Lexica frameworks are available to both public sector organisations (NHS, local authorities, government bodies, higher education, etc.) and private organisations wishing to benefit from our experience and pre-qualified supply chain.

Why the Lexica framework?

Flexible approach

• Fast-track direct award, multi-quote or mini-competition options
• Flexible funding options and support with grant and loan applications
• Fully public sector compliant

Project support

• Project management from sustainability specialists
• Supplier and client relationship management
• Call off contracts provided with Lexica support

Specification support

• Support with specification and tender documentation to ensure key procurement and technology considerations are integrated