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We take a truly holistic approach to digital. From readiness programmes and governance support through to full transformation, data strategy, technology enablement, and end-to-end workstream delivery, we provide seamless support at every stage of your journey.
Strategic Advisory
We help leadership teams define clear and practical digital strategies that align technology investment with organisational priorities and evolving models of care.
Our advisory work includes digital strategy development, technology roadmaps, investment planning and independent strategic guidance to support confident decision-making.
Our service offerings include:
Strategy and Innovation: Helping clients shape direction, priorities and future‑focused change
Readiness and Assessment: Understanding current state, risks and capability to deliver
Financial and Commercial: Supporting robust business cases, investment decisions and commercial models
Project and Programme Delivery
We support organisations to successfully deliver complex digital and technology programmes.
We provide programme leadership, project delivery expertise and specialist support to ensure initiatives are implemented effectively, with strong governance, stakeholder engagement and measurable outcomes.
Our service offerings include:
Project and Programme Delivery: From staff augmentation to fully outsourced or milestone‑based delivery
Planning and Governance: Setting up strong structures, controls and decision‑making
Intervention and Remediation: Stepping in to stabilise, recover or reset challenged work
Digital Optimisation and Improvement
Digital transformation continues beyond implementation.
We help organisations maximise the value of existing digital investments by improving system performance, strengthening user adoption and enhancing digital services through continuous improvement and optimisation.
Our service offerings include:
Training and Adoption: Building capability and embedding change
Benefits Realisation: Ensuring outcomes are measured and delivered
Productivity: Improving ways of working, efficiency and value
Where We Bring Our Expertise
Our expertise spans the core components of modern digital healthcare environments, supporting organisations to build resilient, integrated and future-ready digital services.
Digitally Enabled Healthcare Estates
Supporting healthcare organisations to develop digitally enabled environments where infrastructure, facilities and technology are aligned to support modern clinical services and operational resilience.
Healthcare Applications
Advising on and supporting the implementation and optimisation of clinical and operational applications that underpin healthcare delivery.
Technology Services
Strengthening the technology foundations that support healthcare systems, including technology strategy, service design, governance, and operational improvement.
James Hawkins
Chief Digital and Information Officer
Will Monaghan
Group Chief Digital Information Officer
John Paul Birch
EPR Manager
Miriam Jepson
Deputy Head of Digital Transformation
Mike Emery
Chief Digital and Innovation Officer
Zharain Bawa
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Women in Tech Shining Star Award
SCFH is delighted to announce that Taja Quigley has been nominated for the Women in Tech Shining Star Award. The category celebrates emerging leaders making a significant impact within their organisations and the wider technology sector. As a founding Partner, Taja has played a central role in growing SCFH from a start-up into an award-winning consultancy and recognised UK Best Workplace, delivering complex digital transformation programmes across the NHS and wider health and care sector. Providing senior leadership across client engagement, commercial governance, business development and programme mobilisation, Taja is known for her ability to bring clarity to complexity and align teams around successful outcomes. She has helped establish the governance, operating frameworks and client-focused culture that have enabled SCFH to expand while maintaining its reputation for quality, trust and delivery excellence. Beyond her commercial and operational contributions, Taja is widely recognised for her people-first approach. She champions transparent ways of working, creates opportunities for colleagues to develop and thrive, and helps foster an environment where talented professionals, particularly women working in technology, can build confidence, visibility and successful careers. The nomination highlights both Taja's personal contribution to the technology sector and SCFH's continued commitment to delivering impactful digital transformation across health and care. We congratulate Taja on this well-deserved recognition and wish her every success in the awards process.
Hannah Granshaw
2 June 2026
Smart Buildings in Healthcare: The Opportunity is Now
The buildings in which healthcare is delivered have always shaped the quality of care provided within them. Yet for decades, NHS estates have been managed reactively, focused on maintaining ageing infrastructure, responding to operational failures and treating the physical environment as a cost to be controlled rather than a capability to be developed. That mindset is beginning to shift, and the pace of change is accelerating. The New Hospital Programme is setting the direction At the forefront of this transformation is the NHS New Hospital Programme (NHP). Through its Intelligent Hospital vision, the programme has positioned Smart Buildings not as an optional technology upgrade, but as a strategic necessity. From IoT sensors and intelligent energy systems to digital twins and AI-enabled building management platforms, the ambition is both structured and significant. Importantly, this is the first time in this sector, formally articulated at a national programme level. It's worth noting that NHP's smart buildings work is currently focused on the approximately 40 acute hospital Trust schemes within the programme, running in parallel to the day-to-day work of the broader NHS Estates body. While the approach has not yet been formally adopted as a national standard, it represents a clear statement of intent and an increasingly influential reference point for how digital estates thinking should be applied across the NHS. The opportunity extends beyond new hospitals Crucially, the NHS cannot afford to wait for new hospitals to lead the way. Two converging forces make the case for acting now. Firstly, the wider NHS Estates community, working with hundreds of organisations across thousands of sites, is already navigating modernisation programmes where smart building thinking can and should be applied. Secondly, the government's Neighbourhood Health agenda is driving one of the most significant shifts in care delivery in the history of the NHS. With 250 Neighbourhood Health Centres confirmed, and more than 100 expected to be operational by 2030, the NHS is undertaking one of the most significant shifts in care delivery in its history. Bringing diagnostics, community services, mental health support and primary care together under one roof, closer to where people live, represents a massive and immediate opportunity These new and repurposed buildings are being designed right now, and they carry a clear expectation of being digitally enabled spaces that can adapt to evolving service delivery. Getting the digital estates foundations right from the outset, rather than retrofitting them later, will determine how much value these investments ultimately deliver. How SCFH supports NHS Organisations This is precisely the space where SCFH operates. Our Digital Estates practice brings together deep experience across health and social care in the NHS, spanning clinical transformation, operational change, application programmes and infrastructure, with direct experience of the smart buildings strategy being developed within the New Hospital Programme itself. We understand the policy landscape, the technical architecture and, critically, the realities of delivering change within NHS organisations. We work with clients to first understand their organisational strategy, operational priorities and the outcomes they are trying to achieve. From there, we explore how smart building technologies and digital estates capabilities can enable and support those objectives in a practical and proportionate way, ensuring technology serves the strategy, rather than dictating it. We then help organisations assess their current position, define a clear strategic direction and develop a realistic, deliverable roadmap for change. Our services span strategy development, gap analysis, programme and delivery support, benefits realisation, operational transformation and workforce upskilling. The time to act is now For NHS leaders, the question is no longer whether smart buildings are relevant to them. The question is whether they will proactively shape their own digital estates journey, or find themselves trying to catch up later. The standards are emerging. The investment is flowing. The buildings are already being planned and built. Further reading: PM launches new era for NHS with easier care in neighbourhoods Neighbourhood health centre guidance for regions and integrated care boards Government confirms 250 Neighbourhood Health Centres as part of prevention-focused 10-Year Health Plan About Andy Andy brings over 20 years’ experience in digital health and care, having worked on major NHS transformation programmes and across international healthcare systems, spanning both solution architecture and strategic advisory. His ability to connect strategy, technology and delivery, alongside a focus on more connected, data-driven care, will strengthen the impact we deliver for our clients. SCFH. A modern approach to health consulting. We combine strategic advisory with hands-on delivery, across data, digital and technology, helping health, life sciences and public sector organsisations improve outcomes, productivity and long-term value. Our diverse team brings together deep industry expertise, innovative thinking and a shared commitment to delivering outstanding results for our partners.
Andy Brett
27 May 2026
UK’s Best Workplaces for Development™ 2026
We’re proud to announce that SCFH has been recognised as one of the UK’s Best Workplaces for Development™ 2026, ranking 21st in the small business category. This recognition from Great Place To Work® highlights organisations that make employee development a key part of their culture, creating environments where people are encouraged to learn, grow and progress in ways that work for them. At SCFH, we believe that when people are supported to develop both personally and professionally, everyone benefits. Whether it’s through structured learning opportunities, mentoring, leadership development or simply giving people the trust and autonomy to grow in their roles, development is something we continuously invest in across the business. Being included on this prestigious list is a reflection of the culture we’ve built together, one where people feel empowered to challenge themselves, share knowledge and shape their own career journey. To determine the UK’s Best Workplaces for Development™, Great Place To Work® analysed anonymous employee feedback alongside company culture, leadership and development practices. Only organisations achieving the highest scores were recognised. This latest recognition adds to an exciting run of achievements for SCFH with Great Place To Work®, following our inclusion in the UK’s Best Workplaces™ 2026 list earlier this year. We’re incredibly proud of this achievement and grateful to our brilliant team for helping make SCFH such a great place to work.
Hannah Granshaw
26 May 2026