Delivering Better Healthcare Faster
We are Specialist Health Solutions known as “SHS”.
A privately owned group of healthcare businesses committed to delivering better healthcare faster, working in collaboration with our clients to use our unique technology solutions to solve a variety of challenges across the Healthcare sector.
WHAT WE DO
The SHS Way
We have built a portfolio of businesses through investment and organic growth which is centred around our mission, to deliver better healthcare, faster.
We focus on backing entrepreneurial founders and high-potential businesses at early stages of growth, where we can add the greatest value through strategic support, operational development and commercial scaling.
With experience working in a breadth of global healthcare systems, we’ve built an understanding of the complex dynamics and conflicting priorities across clinical and regulated healthcare environments.
We use this knowledge to build healthcare businesses that solve healthcare challenges, investing heavily in in-house Research & Development teams to ensure the solutions presented by our businesses are powered by the very latest technologies.
Three Strategic Pillars
We take a technology first approach to solving major challenges across the Healthcare sector. We build solutions based propositions which meet the most pressing needs of our clients and importantly, drive value and improve patient outcomes.
Our businesses are constantly innovating. Dedicated Research & Development teams across the portfolio means that we never stand still, always staying one step ahead, bringing a unique value to our clients through multiple patented technologies.
Compelling Solutions
Our teams collective expertise across healthcare settings gives us deep insights and understanding of the complex dynamics and demands on healthcare systems. Understanding the nuances of the sector, and in particular the UK’s National Health Service (NHS), through first hand experience gives us a unique position from which we can develop solutions that are truly innovative.
Deep Market Insight
Our strong belief is that enduring businesses are built on robust systems and processes which reduce risk, ensure governance and ultimately build value.
Our dedicated Corporate Services team support our portfolio businesses, working closely with the leadership teams to implement processes that keep teams focussed and businesses operating efficiently. We are committed to supporting our leaderships teams, becoming an extension of the businesses they run and working together to achieve long term growth and profitability.
Robust Systems
Portfolio Companies
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Health Spaces, an award-winning healthcare estates and design consultancy with integrated project delivery capabilities. Health Spaces work with NHS Trusts to shape environments that support high-quality care and long-term resilience.
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Inivos, global leaders in Contamination Control Technology. Inivos enhance the safety of healthcare and life science facilities through innovative, hi-tech HPV and UV-C decontamination and air purification solutions. Their unique In-Core™ technology platform sits at the centre of the Inivos ecosystem.
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Test Labs, is GLP Certified, ISO17025 Accredited Medical Device Testing Laboratory. They specialise in medical device testing and validation, focusing particularly on instructions for use validation and material compatibility & biocompatibility studies to ensure compliance with global regulations.
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Vitta Group, empowers educational institutions to realise their curriculum vision by transforming strategic plans into fully functional, strategically aligned learning environments, bridging the gap between strategy and implementation, their turnkey solution and process provide maximum value, transparency, and results that seamlessly align with broader curriculum aspirations.
Our Values
“Don’t think outside the box. Think like there’s no box.”
We are hungry, we are smart, we are humble
We give our colleagues the chance to thrive in an entrepreneurial culture supported by the infrastructure of a large corporate.
Our values sit at the centre of all our businesses, ensuring we are connected and aligned in our approach. What motivates us is our shared desire to improve patient outcomes and develop groundbreaking technologies that allow us to support our clients to tackle challenges across the healthcare sector.
“A humble person never stops learning.”
We lead with clarity by succinctly communicating our top priorities and relentlessly following through to completion. We seek to work smarter, and not harder.
Smart
We have an innate hunger to get stuff done, we demand a high standard, and we never see any benefit in doing the bare minimum.
Hungry
“The thing about smart people is they sound crazy to dumb people.”
We put the success of the whole ahead of our own by harnessing what we are brilliant at and drawing on the strengths of others.
Humble
Get in Touch
To find out more about our approach, portfolio businesses or if you have an investment opportunity you would like to discuss, please get in touch.