Baxendale is an employee-owned management consultancy with extensive experience of helping health and care providers to transform services. We work in the following markets; integrated health and social care, adult community mental and physical health, children’s community health, children’s mental health, primary care, and wellbeing. Our approach, combined with our team’s passion for tackling knotty issues is why the Financial Times named us as one of the UK’s leading consultancies for innovation, growth and new business models. I support clients to develop their merger, joint venture, partnership, estates strategy and business plans. Recent projects carried out by members of our team include:NHS Acute & Community Provider - New Integrated Care Partnership including developing the Partnership Agreement and critical friend to the ICP as it worked through the transaction process with NHSE/I.Imperial College Healthcare - transformation of food and retail service, including setting the vision and strategy, and appraisal of outsourcing, joint venture, in-house and PPP solutions.Torbay and South Devon Foundation Trust - Brokered a partnership between all acute providers in Devon to deliver county-wide children’s community services through a joint venture working to one model Merger of Four Mind Charities in Northamptonshire - Supported 4 Mind charities working across a County wide footprint to merge, including, joint feasibility report, due diligence, merger model, and project management. Livewell Southwest - developed and implemented an estate strategy for, 78 inpatient, clinic and office bases to support new hybrid ways of working, including digital delivery of services and flexible office spaces. If you’re interested in learning more about how we can help, email Jim.brooks@baxendale.co.uk.

Cogent is a consulting firm operating in the healthcare and charity sector, providing business and financial expertise to support organisations to navigate in an uncertain environment and thus enable them to work in a sustainable way to improve as many lives as possible. During my time at Cogent I supported more than 40 clients to develop and deliver mergers plans, raise capital for estates projects, create business plans, develop financial models, and improve social impact.

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Trust delivers a wide range of community services for adults and children throughout Birmingham, plus specialist services across the city and wider West Midlands region including healthcare for people with learning disability, community dental services, and rehabilitationDuring my time as Business Development Director I led on the merger of three PCT provider arms in Birmingham to form BCHC NHS Trust, developed the estates strategy for the new organisation, led on the development of a new dental hospital, and established a Business Support Unit for the new Trust.

KPMG's Global Infrastructure practice provides advice to public authorities, private infrastructure owners and investors, and promoters of infrastructure projects. Services span the entire infrastructure lifecycle, including, asset procurement, funding and financing, project and programme management strategy and business consulting.Associate Director within the health team supporting clients across a range of infrastructure projects including, Private Finance Initiative (PFI), Local Improvement Finance Trust (LIFT) and publicly funded projects in the UK and Middle East.

Birmingham Women’s NHS Foundation Trust is a centre of excellence for a range of specialist health care services for women and their families in Birmingham, the West Midlands and across the UK.As a NED and Chair of Audit Committee I provided a creative contribution to the board by providing independent oversight and constructive challenge to the executive directors.

Dignity is a British company that has more than 800 funeral homes in towns and cities across the UKAs head of Financial Planning and Analysis my primary responsibility was to lead on the strategic development of the portfolio of funeral homes and crematoria. During my time at Dignity we completed the acquisitions of more than 150 funeral homes, developed 30 Greenfield sites and floated the company on the UK stock exchange.