QuoVira Health · Services
Advice, design and build for public-sector health and care
Some teams need an independent view before they spend anything. Some need a service designed and built. Some need a live service kept safe, or a supplier managed. We do all three, and we’ll tell you which one you actually need.
Ways to work with us
Three service lines, one accountable team
Each line has a small, fixed-price way to start, so you can find out what we're like to work with before committing to anything larger.
Assurance & advisory
Independent advice for public bodies before budget is committed — whether a product is a medical device, whether it will pass DTAC and data-protection scrutiny, and what to put in the specification.
- Is it a medical device? MHRA software triage
- DTAC, DPIA, DSPT and accessibility readiness
- Pre-procurement support: requirements, market engagement, specifications
- Independent review of a supplier’s product, evidence or codebase
- Plain-English written findings you can take to a board
Discovery to live
Design and build of health and care services in the phases public bodies already know — discovery, alpha, beta and live — with the assurance evidence produced alongside the work.
- User research with residents, carers, families and staff
- Service design to the GOV.UK and NHS service standards
- Accessible web and mobile apps (WCAG 2.2 AA)
- UK-hosted, secure platforms with reporting for the commissioner
- DPIA, DCB0129/0160 and DTAC evidence prepared with you
Live service & support
Keeping a live service safe and improving — and, where you already have a supplier, someone senior on your side of the table.
- Hosting oversight, monitoring and security patching
- Usage, outcomes and equality reporting for commissioners
- Continuous improvement from real usage data
- Intelligent client: we manage your supplier for you
- Fractional product owner or delivery lead
Engagement shapes
What an engagement actually looks like
We scope and quote every engagement to the problem in front of us, so you get a fixed written price before anything starts. These are the shapes those engagements usually take.
Assurance & advisory
Line AFor councils, ICBs and NHS trusts weighing up a digital health or care product, writing a specification, or checking a supplier’s claims.
Intro call
A straight conversation about the service you have in mind and whether we are the right people to help. Not a sales pitch.
Medical device & DTAC triage
A fixed-scope review of where a product sits: whether it has a medical purpose under MHRA guidance, how it measures up against DTAC, and a prioritised list of gaps and actions.
Pre-procurement support
Help turning a need into a buyable requirement: user needs, market engagement questions, a specification and evaluation criteria. If advising you would stop us bidding later, we say so before we start, so you can manage it under the Procurement Act.
Supplier & product assurance review
An independent check of a product you are buying or already run: its evidence, data protection, accessibility and technical quality, delivered as a written report with risk ratings.
Discovery to live
Line BFor teams with a problem to solve for residents, families, carers or patients, whether that ends in a new app, a better website or a decision not to build.
Discovery
Research with the people the service is for, a map of how they are helped today, and a clear recommendation on whether, and what, to build. You own every finding.
Alpha
Prototypes tested with real users to answer the riskiest questions before money goes into engineering, with the keep-or-stop decision written down before we start.
Beta
A working service people can rely on: built, accessibility-tested, evidenced and launched to a first group of users, then widened as it proves itself.
Live service & support
Line CFor organisations running a digital service, or managing a supplier who builds one, that need continuity rather than a new project.
Live service retainer
Keeping a live service healthy: monitoring, patching, accessibility re-checks, reporting and a steady trickle of improvements.
Intelligent client / fractional lead
Embedded with your team for a set number of days a week, owning the roadmap, supplier management, assurance and governance, and reporting to you.
Before you get in touch
What helps us give you a straight answer
None of this is a prerequisite — plenty of good projects start with a sentence and a hunch. But the more of it you have, the faster we can tell you what we'd build, what we wouldn't, and roughly what it costs.
The problem, not the feature list
Who has it, how they cope today, and what changes for them if you solve it. Feature lists are easy to write and easy to get wrong; the problem is the durable part.
Whatever you already have
Sketches, a spreadsheet, a competitor you admire, a half-finished prototype, an existing codebase. Rough is fine — it saves us both a fortnight of guessing.
Who decides, and roughly what you can spend
Not a precise figure — a range and who signs it off. It changes what we recommend, and it stops us designing something you can’t fund.
Any clinical or data involvement
If clinicians, patient data or NHS organisations are anywhere near this, tell us early. It shapes the architecture, not just the paperwork.
Buying from us, in plain English
A fixed written price before anything starts. Every engagement is scoped and quoted in writing. Our entry engagements are deliberately small, so they can be bought quickly and proportionately under your contract rules.
Our assurance evidence is published, not promised. ICO registration, Cyber Essentials certification, our data protection position and the gaps we have not closed yet are all on our trust page. We will complete your supplier onboarding and security questionnaires.
You own what we make for you. Code, designs, research and data belong to you. Every build comes with a documented exit: full data export in open formats, and help moving it if you re-procure.
We are open about conflicts. If helping you write a specification would give us an unfair advantage in bidding for it, we tell you before we start, so you can manage it properly under the Procurement Act.
We'll tell you if it isn't us. If your need is better met by an existing product, a national offer, a different supplier or not building anything at all, we would rather say so on the first call.
For delivery partners
A health and care specialist for your bid or team
If you hold a place on a public-sector digital framework and your next opportunity involves health, social care, families or carers, we can join your bid or your team as a specialist subcontractor.
Talk to us about a bidRegulation, answered
MHRA medical device questions, DTAC, DSPT, DPIAs, clinical safety and the ICO Children’s Code, for the parts of a bid assessors look hardest at.
Families and carers
Product design for parents, young people and unpaid carers, informed by building and running our own family app.
Something live to point to
Striova is a live, non-diagnostic product designed, built and run by us, so the capability in your bid is evidenced rather than described.
Small and senior
You work directly with the person doing the work. We mobilise quickly and fit into your team’s ways of working and governance.
§2What we do
From the first question to a live service
Advice, research, design, engineering, assurance and support for health and care services, delivered by one accountable team.
Assurance & regulatory advice
Whether a product is a medical device under MHRA guidance, what DTAC, DSPT and a DPIA will ask of it, and what to put in the specification so you buy something safe.
Discovery & user research
Research with residents, carers, families and staff to find out what they need and how they are helped today, before anyone commits to building.
Accessible service design
Services designed to the GOV.UK and NHS service standards and tested to WCAG 2.2 AA, including with people who are less confident online.
App & platform engineering
Web and mobile apps on secure, UK-hosted infrastructure, built in short visible iterations, with the code and data owned by you.
Reporting & responsible data
Usage, outcomes and equality reporting commissioners can act on. Any automation is explainable and never makes decisions about people.
Live service & support
Monitoring, security patching, accessibility re-checks and steady improvement after launch, or an intelligent client to manage your existing supplier.
§4How we work
Discovery to live, with the evidence built in
We work in the phases you already use from the GOV.UK and NHS service standards. Safety, privacy and accessibility are part of delivery, not a final gate.
Discovery
Research with the people the service is for. We find out what they need and decide what to build, or whether to build at all.
Alpha
Prototypes tested with real users and staff, to answer the riskiest questions before money goes into engineering.
Beta
A working, accessible service launched to a first group of users, then widened as it proves itself.
Live
Monitoring, security patching, reporting and continuous improvement based on how people actually use it.
Assure throughout
Medical device triage, DPIA, clinical safety (DCB0129/0160), DTAC and accessibility evidence produced as we go.
Got a health or care service to get right?
Whether it's a question about regulation, a service to design, or a supplier to check, tell us the problem and we'll tell you how we'd approach it. The first conversation is free.