Programme strategy & assurance

Guiding your reconfiguration from initial concept to decision-making without losing time or risking failure.

Changing healthcare services under intense time and financial pressure is hard. We bring a deep understanding of the legal and regulatory requirements and the confidence that comes with specialising in this work over the last two decades. Our best-practice approaches to involvement and consultation bring the voices of the people you rely on and the people you serve right to the heart of your decision-making.

We work alongside your internal transformation and comms teams, bringing the specialist capability and capacity you need to get service change done right first time.

Programme leadership support
Providing expert capacity and capability to keep complex transformation moving.
Situation reviews & risk audits
Independent context analysis to baseline your project and identify risk early.
Legal duties & scrutiny briefings
Strategic advice on the duty to involve, equality and health inequality duties, other statutory obligations, and HOSC requirements.

Success stories

Tackling inequalities in cancer pathways

RM Partners Cancer Alliance set out to understand why some groups of women experience poorer outcomes in breast and gynaecological cancer pathways. RM Partners Cancer Alliance covers north west and south west London. The organisation set out to understand why some groups of women experience poorer outcomes in breast and gynaecological cancer pathways. Evidence showed…

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Closing a birthing unit: consulting service users and local communities

An NHS organisation in the north of England commissioned Olovus in January 2025 to provide expert support for the permanent closure of a local hospital birthing service. The service was initially suspended on a temporary basis and had been closed for five years. When commissioners decided not to reinstate the service, the local Overview and…