The Life Science Hub

The Hub aims to offer expert assistance, specialised skills, and knowledge from experienced NHS staff to the life science sector. Its goal is to help the industry understand the NHS landscape and enhance the positive effects of their work on patient populations.

We strive to assist the life sciences sector in engaging effectively with the NHS to enhance the impact of their innovations. Our consultancy services are customised for evidence generation, market access, pathway alignment, and operational deployment, supporting both new and established companies in NHS engagement and sustainable growth.

Whether you’re a start-up looking to understand how you can start working with the NHS, or you have an established offer that you want to better understand the impact of, we offer a range of bespoke services to suit your needs.

Acceleration and adoption

We support the life sciences industry to bring new treatments and technologies to market by aligning them with NHS priorities and pathways. Our consultancy provides support across evidence generation, market access, and implementation to accelerate adoption and impact.

• Market Access Strategies and NHS Readiness: landscape mapping, route to market strategies, HTA support, stakeholder engagement and planning.
• Evidence Generation and Evaluation: Real World Evidence, health economics and outcomes research, clinical evaluation and feasibility, service impact modelling.
• Integration and Implementation: operating model deployment options, pathway readiness, planning and facilitation, procurement and business case development
• Data access and Insights: Access to data assets, data analytics and visualisation, benchmarking.
• Co-development and Strategic Partnerships: Joint grant applications, strategic partnership modelling.

Maximising impact and optimisation

We support the life sciences industry in optimising existing treatments by using NHS data, clinical insights, and pathway expertise. Our consultancy enhances real-world effectiveness, improves service efficiency, and strengthens value for long-term adoption and growth.

• Performance Analysis and Impact Evaluation: Real World evidence studies, comparative effectiveness research, cost effectiveness and patient outcome analysis.
• Pathway Optimisation and Integration Support: Care pathway mapping and redesign, barriers and enablers analysis, dissemination support
• Service Delivery Optimisation: Medicine optimisation, workflow analysis, operational redesign, digital enablement
• Post market surveillance and safety monitoring: Risk mitigation and regulatory support.

Strategic advisory support

We partner with the life sciences industry and help them navigate and succeed in the NHS by offering strategic access support, operational deployment expertise, and real-world insights to drive adoption and scale.

• Strategic Market Access and NHS Navigation: System navigations, policy and landscape intelligence, market access planning.
• Planning and Operationalisation: Implementation plans, readiness assessments, strategies, scale up.
• Stakeholder engagement and Communications: Stakeholder mapping, co-developed engagement strategies, advisory board facilitation
• Data strategy and NHS Insights: NHS data opportunity mapping, predictive modelling support, real world data insight analysis
• Strategic Advisory Support: Innovation strategy alignment, partnership and collaboration development

Our offer for the NHS

The Life Science Hub offers a bridge between industry and the NHS. As part of the NHS, we understand the challenges which decision makers and commissioners face and our expert team can help you navigate them.

Our services for the NHS include:

• Evidence generation – helping you understand the impact that new technologies will have in your system and making a case for their adoption
• Pathway optimisation – exploring treatment and prevention pathways and finding the best solutions to optimise budgets for improved population health
• Programme support – ensuring innovations are adopted swiftly, smoothly and sustainably. 

We have a team of experienced experts across a range of disciplines, who are committed to finding the best solutions to improve health outcomes across the NHS.

Clinical

• Tina Bramley, Associate Director, NHS Arden and Greater East Midlands CSU
• Dr Olu Akinremi, Value Implementation Lead, NHS Arden and Greater East Midlands CSU
• Jonathan Horgan, Director of Pharmacy Services, NHS Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit
• Helen Pearson, Senior Clinical Pharmacist, NHS Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit
• Ian Morris, Senior Clinical Services Manager
• Alex Evans.

Consultancy

• Rebecca Dennett, Programme Lead for Strategy and Partnering (Life Sciences), NHS Arden and Greater East Midlands CSU
• Ayesha Janjua, Associate Director - ICS Development, NHS Arden and Greater East Midlands CSU
• Rose Taylor, Exec Director Health and Care Transformation, NHS Arden and Greater East Midlands CSU
• Gary Graham, Director Strategy and Development, Health and Care Transformation, NHS Arden and Greater East Midlands CSU
• Denis Gizzi
• Rachel Helmn, Head of Consultancy – Growth Lead, North of England Commissioning Support.

Analytics/Economics

• Helen Duckworth, Director of Business Intelligence Transformation, NHS Arden and Greater East Midlands CSU
• Jürgen Mitsch, Head of Data Science, NHS Arden and Greater East Midlands CSU
• Andi Orlowski, Director, Health Economics Unit
• David Sgorbati, Chief Analyst, Health Economics Unit
• Ben Murch.

Public health specialists

• Claire Cheong-Leen, Associate Director SPH & Clinical Insight, NHS Arden and Greater East Midlands CSU
• Richard Harrety, Senior Business Manager, North of England Commissioning Support
• Gill D'eath (PHM).

Change management

• Duncan Harper, Head of Midlands Region – Consultancy.