Capability in evidence

Selected illustrative qualifications.

Seven assignments, each led at senior level and drawing on the network of experts and partner firms. Assignments are described by client and region.

European Commission, DG INTPA

Private sector engagement with the EU, the African Union and Africa CDC on health system transformation

Analytical reports on private sector participation in the Team Europe Initiative, covering seven case studies, a mapping of the financing architecture, and structured engagement with public and private interlocutors.

Domain iii

World Health Organization

RAPID appraisal, pre-feasibility and feasibility studies, for a greenfield hospital project

Pre-feasibility and feasibility studies applying the RAPID methodology, to assess maturity, demand justification, options and feasibility flags for a proposed greenfield hospital. Further to the appraisal report, the country requested transaction advisory services, using the BRIDGE instrument to structure the partnership.

RAPID

Asian Development Bank, for a grouping of development banks

Social infrastructure investment optimisation

Facilitation of a technical grouping of multilateral development banks, to create added value through collaboration, shared good practice and risk analysis, so that private investment in health is optimised.

CASH

A group of private investors

VIBE assessment for a major health infrastructure project

Application of the VIBE methodology to assess upstream maturity for a substantial health infrastructure investment, in support of an investment decision.

VIBE

National health agency  ·  with WHO, funded by the European Investment Bank

Pre-feasibility study, National Health Reference Laboratory

Pre-feasibility of a national health reference laboratory requiring restructuring, with the mandate and remit reassessed, alongside service configuration, infrastructure requirements, investment scenarios and operational sustainability.

Domain ii

National health agency and national biomedical agency  ·  with WHO

National capacity in medical warehousing and medical oxygen

Assessment of national capacity in medical warehousing and in the production, storage and distribution of medical oxygen, with the investment and operating implications of each option.

Domain ii

A consortium of private operators

Early evaluation of viability, risk and opportunity, large hospital partnership

Early evaluation of the viability of a large hospital partnership, of the risks carried by the parties and of the opportunity the project represents, ahead of a decision to commit to detailed studies.

Domain i

Confidentiality

Live engagements are described without naming the country, the client body or the financing partners. Further case studies are available on request.

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Illustrative skill deployment

The range of work behind the practice.

The assignments below indicate the range of work undertaken in health infrastructure, capital investment and complex contracting.

Project-finance DBFOM feasibility, relocation of a national referral hospital

Ministry of Health, South East Europe  ·  European Investment Bank funded

Partnership feasibility and design across Europe

Development banks, including the European Investment Bank, and private investors

Health and facility master plans in more than fifteen countries

Governments and health authorities

Training programmes for PPP decision makers in health

Egypt, Morocco and Serbia, with the European Commission

Working group on health financing and private sector participation

China  ·  with WHO

Standardisation of primary health care facilities

Jordan  ·  with WHO

Guide on health technology assessment

World Health Organization

Guide on inclusive health infrastructure

UNOPS  ·  WHO

Partnership instruments for social security and health decision makers

Vietnam

Health system reform and programme delivery

Senegal, Vietnam, and European Commission funded programmes

Public-private partnerships in practice

Twenty years of partnership and complex contracting.

Contracts and transactions

Operation and management services delivery agreement

General hospital, North Africa

Joint venture for a health insurance card scheme

Ministry of Health, Southern Europe

Service delivery agreement, conversion of a military hospital

Ministry of Health

Consortia for build-own-operate-transfer projects

Hospital sector, worldwide

Feasibility, structuring and value for money

Territorial partnership arrangements in health

State governorate, Brazil

Concession model feasibility, outpatient consultations

Not-for-profit private hospital, Western Europe

Financial sustainability of vaccine and immunisation policy

Ministry of Health, Central Africa

International patient referral network strategy

Private healthcare network, Western Europe

Policy, legislation and capacity

Working document on private sector participation in social infrastructure

European Commission, Integrate Programme

National old age master plan

Ministry of Health, South East Asia

Health financing and contracting for private participation

Ministries of Health and Labour, West Africa

Training of decision makers on partnership instruments

European Commission and WHO programmes

Diagram of a public-private partnership: the public authority, the special purpose vehicle and the parties behind it

How a partnership is put together

Who signs what, and what flows between them.

The public authority, the special purpose vehicle it contracts with, and the parties standing behind that vehicle. Health Solutions advises on every line in this diagram, from the agreement at the top to the operating and insurance arrangements at the foot.

The terms on which debt is raised set the coverage ratios the project must meet for the life of the concession. Payment mechanisms and availability regimes are drafted against the implementation and service arrangements.