Before you engage
Before you engage
We take on work from local authorities, arms-length bodies, NHS trusts and central government teams. Size matters less than whether you have a mandate to change and people who can carry it. If we are not the right fit, we will say so at the first call.
We price by phase, not by the hour. You get a fixed fee for each stage, with the scope written down and the assumptions in plain sight. If the work grows beyond that scope, we agree a change note before anyone picks up the extra load.
Alongside, always. We bring capacity and method, not a shadow team. Your people hold the knowledge and the relationships, and the change only sticks if they own it. We leave the capability behind when we go.
Usually yes, if diaries allow. The first fortnight is discovery: reading your plans, meeting the people who run the service, and testing what is actually possible. We then bring a short plan to your board before any delivery starts.
Your current strategy or improvement plan, any recent inspection or audit findings, and a named lead who can make decisions. If those are thin on the ground, we will help you pull them together as part of the discovery phase.
We work under your information governance rules, sign your confidentiality agreements and keep data within your systems wherever possible. Our privacy policy sets out how we handle anything we hold ourselves, and we are happy to answer questions before you share anything sensitive.
How we engage
We meet you, hear what is not working and ask the awkward questions early. No pitch, no charge. You leave with a straight view of whether we can help.
We put the problem in writing, agree what success looks like and set the boundaries of the work. You sign off a fixed fee and a named lead before anything begins.
We work in your offices and on your systems, bringing method and extra hands. Progress is reviewed fortnightly with your lead, and we flag risks while they are still small.
We document what changed, train the people who will run it and agree a light-touch check-in. The aim is for you to need us less, not more.
Where we stop
We do not bid for work where the decision has already been made and the consultation is theatre. If the outcome is fixed, we are not the right people to help you.
We do not accept engagements where we are asked to recommend redundancies or restructures without a genuine service rationale behind them.
We do not take on short-term interim cover for a permanent role, however pressed the team may be. That is a different trade and we are not built for it.
We do not run programmes where our findings are subject to editorial approval by the commissioning body. Honest reporting is the whole point.
Talk to us
Three of them, and no switchboard between you and an answer.
Straight to the inbox
reception@reformconsult.co.ukRead by the people who can answer it, and answered in writing.
To the registered address
Bank House, Congleton, Cheshire, CW12 1ET, United KingdomSlower, but it is the right route for anything that has to be on paper.
Through the site
Send it from hereThe form asks for what an answer needs and nothing more.

Get in touch
Tell us what you are trying to change and we will tell you plainly whether we can help. Most enquiries get a reply within one working day.
Bank House, Congleton, Cheshire, CW12 1ET, United Kingdomreception@reformconsult.co.ukArrange a call