Accessing the Social Care Market

Helping clients to reach their full commercial potential

Accessing the Healthcare Market

Optimise your access to the UK Healthcare Market

Commercialisation of your Innovation

Developing strategy for your market

Leadership & Management

Start building on your management skill set

Using decades of experience to move your business forward in Health and Social CarE

At Pym’s Consultancy, we pride ourselves in our experience. The consultancy is led by Kate Pym and Jonathan Horrocks. Together we have worked in the commercial provision of health and social care for over 40 years, with a proven track record of success, in both large and small organisations. We provide a range of services to companies wishing to enter or expand their presence in the health and social care market, UK and overseas. Working with a number of Associate Consultants, we draw on decades of senior management experience, enabling us to deliver against a wide variety of business needs.

When a client engages our consultancy, we ensure that each consultant working with them has a wealth of relevant experience to bring to the project and organisation. All proposals, research and reports are conducted and written by our Consultants themselves, so you can be sure that the right questions are asked for relevant, informative reports, fitting to your specific business needs.

WINNER – MEDILINK AWARDS 2016

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Services We Offer

Services to enhance commercial awareness

Giving your organisation the edge to win business, and grow profits within increasingly competitive markets.
Please click on the image to open an outline of the variety of skills and experience on offer.

We match skilled and experienced consultants to your needs, on a day by day or project basis, mixing skills sets to deliver a full package of services from investigating your market, planning strategy and designing services for your product delivery to producing health economic models, finding relevant stakeholders and speaking with potential customers.

Services for Healthcare Product Manufacturers & Service Providers

We provide a range of commercial services and compliance support to organisations which work within the UK healthcare market. We have experience of working with Third Sector, NHS and commercial providers.

All our consultants have a minimum of 15 years experience working in senior positions within healthcare. Nothing is fixed, and we provide a flexible service to meet your needs, for example: business case and bid writing; or training in business case preparation and bid responses.

Services to Support Social Care Providers

Do you work in the provision of social care, or devices or technologies to support social care provision?

All businesses are different, and social care providers work with a specific set of challenges which impact on their commercial viability and ability to expand. We offer a completely confidential consultancy service delivering bespoke solutions from advice on CQC compliance to service design, sales and marketing strategy and representation.

Our Customers

We are proud to work with a wide range of organisations.

Find the skills and experience you need to break into your markets
Put your product in front of the right people with the right value proposition
Sell your products and services into an integrated market place

Selling to the NHS (Part 1): Understanding Your Market

This event is part of the West Midlands Academic Health Science Network (WMAHSN) industry event programme, aimed to support the West Midlands innovation ecosystem, and to make the West Midlands healthier, more productive and deliver the best possible clinical outcomes for patients.

This webinar provides an overview of the fundamental steps you need to take to understand your market and your customer (NHS). Our guest speakers will share their expert knowledge of selling and preparing businesses to gain access to and sell into the NHS and health care providers. Kate Pym (Managing Director, Pym’s Consultancy) and Bob Roopra (Managing Consultant, Roopra MedTech Consulting) offer advice and guidance on what is required by the NHS and others to initiate and make a sale of a medical innovation.

Listen to the webinar here.

PLEASE NOTE: This session was originally recorded on Tuesday 14th March 2023 and is provided here for reference with the understanding that details were accurate at time of recording but are liable to change.

What our clients say

Springboard Solutions Limited

“During the time I spent working with two providers in Health & Social Care, both of which contacts were provided by you, you have been helpful, supportive and very contactable.

I would welcome the opportunity to work with you again in the future!”

 

– Karen Simpson, Associate Consultant

Baltex

“Kate is a healthcare professional with many years of experience. She quickly provided key insights into our target markets which have provided the direction for a successful marketing campaign. She is a pleasure to work with.”

 

– Charles Wood, Managing Director

B&BF

“Kate has written business cases, bid applications and grant applications on behalf of B&BF to an excellent standard, and continues to work with us in the development of innovative care service solutions for people experiencing bladder and bowel dysfunction.”

 

– Robert Dixon, CEO

Continence Education & Medical Affairs

“Kate is extremely knowledgeable and well known within the health care industry. Whatever the remit she delivers this wealth of experience to her audience with passion and integrity. Her enthusiasm for the projects that she takes on is contagious making her an excellent trainer. She is thorough, well prepared and always meets project deadlines. She is an excellent advocate for consultancy and an asset to any project. I would most definitely employ her services in the future.”

 

– Snr Manager

NurseBuddy

“We hired Kate to create a comprehensive entry to UK market strategy for us. Her transparent, structured approach ensured we understood the process exactly. The final strategy document produced for us exceeded our expectations. We got a live document which could be adapted for a changing market, with in-depth analysis into our product and where it would be best placed in the care market. Kate is a very friendly, highly professional consultant. I would have no hesitation in recommending her.”

 

– Christine Grier, Sales Manager

Aguettant Ltd

,I am extremely happy with the report and amount of information you managed to pull together for us. It was a pleasure to work with you and I hope we can do again in the future

 

– Claire Broomfield, Managing Director

WARL-HEALTH

“We have worked with Pym’s Consultancy on the development and market access of new healthcare technology. They have helped us to understand the market environment and find new opportunities for our products and services. Pym’s Consultancy have also recommended to us relevant events in the health and social care calendar, researched funding opportunities and supported bids. They provide a very professional and comprehensive service and we continue to work with them.”

 

– Allen McKay, Managing Director

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