Health & Wellbeing Spotlight: Delivering spaces that support care, recovery and communities

The UK Health & Wellbeing sector is evolving rapidly, driven by increasing demand for healthcare services, ageing estate infrastructure, and the need to deliver modern, efficient and patient-centred environments. NHS Trusts, private healthcare providers, estates teams and community organisations are working to create facilities that improve outcomes, enhance accessibility and support staff wellbeing.

At Potter Raper, we help clients plan, fund and deliver healthcare projects with confidence. From new hospital developments to complex refurbishments in live clinical environments, we understand the challenges of delivering safe, compliant and operationally resilient healthcare infrastructure.

What’s shaping the Health & Wellbeing sector today

Healthcare providers are responding to a range of pressures and priorities, including:

NHS estate modernisation and backlog maintenance
Delivery of new hospital and planned care facilities
Growth in integrated care hubs and community-based services
Demand for specialist clinical environments and diagnostic facilities
Complex refurbishment works within live operational hospitals
Heritage-sensitive healthcare developments in constrained urban settings

These challenges require strong governance, careful phasing, and partners who understand both clinical operations and construction delivery risks.

How Potter Raper supports Health & Wellbeing clients

We provide commercial, technical and project management expertise across the full lifecycle of healthcare and wellbeing projects. Our role is to ensure certainty, control and clarity from early feasibility through to completion.

We are experienced in delivering within occupied and operational healthcare environments, where patient safety, infection control, and minimal disruption are critical.

Our approach ensures:

Safe and coordinated delivery in live hospital environments
Cost certainty and robust financial control
Programme assurance in phased and complex schemes
Compliance with healthcare and building safety requirements
Sensitive delivery in heritage and constrained sites
Sustainable, future-ready design solutions

Some of our Healthcare projects

Heatherwood Hospital – Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
A new 4-storey, 11,500 sq m hospital providing world-class planned care facilities for NHS and private patients, located sensitively within a woodland setting.
Service: Project Management

10 Eastbourne Terrace – Med24 Ltd
Conversion of a commercial office into a fully operational medical facility including consultation, treatment and procedure rooms, laboratories, staff facilities and support spaces.
Service: Quantity Surveying

GP Hub Heatherwood – Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
Refurbishment and extension works to create an Integrated Care Hub accommodating two GP surgeries, new clinical spaces and improved access and parking provision.
Service: Quantity Surveying

73 – 75 Harley Street – Howard de Walden Estate
Sensitive refurbishment of Grade I and Grade II* listed buildings to deliver high-quality medical facilities and residential accommodation, including complex structural works, full underpinning, and detailed heritage restoration.
Services: Quantity Surveying & Project Management

G3 Stroke Unit Extension – Frimley Park Hospital
Phased refurbishment and extension works within a live hospital environment, delivering new therapy rooms, staff areas and clinical support spaces while maintaining strict control over noise, dust and disruption.
Service: Quantity Surveying

Our core services for Healthcare & Wellbeing include:

Why choose Potter Raper

Healthcare projects demand precision, sensitivity and a deep understanding of operational constraints. We deliver certainty in complex environments, ensuring projects are safe, efficient and future-ready.

We Listen. Solve. Deliver.

Explore more of our experience and work in the Health & Wellbeing sector: https://potterraper.co.uk/sectors/health-and-wellbeing/

To get in touch, visit https://potterraper.co.uk/contact/

Photo Credit: BDP – Nick Caville