Niche is a leading provider of independent professional services to the health and social care sector. We specialise in delivering investigation and thematic review services, governance reviews, assurance reviews, evaluations, and service data analytics.
We are proud of our reputation for delivering exceptional quality and cost-effective independent review services. Our expert team are able to apply real-world, workable solutions to address the challenges you face within your organisation.
We are one of the leading suppliers of multi-sector health and social care related serious incident investigations in the country.
We are experts in all aspects of healthcare governance and employ some of the most experienced governance practitioners in the country.
We use our tested methods and insights to help organisations, services a systems achieve their goals. Whether this is through a governance focused investigation, designing assurance frameworks, a rigorous evaluation, governance diagnostic support, clinical due diligence, or partnership governance.
We are specialists at undertaking large-scale investigations (multi-agency), enquiries and multi-population serious incident investigations (MPSIs).
Niche have considerable experience in carrying out thematic reviews either as part of both evaluations and patient safety work. We offer approaches which are triangulated across statistical analysis, and qualitative, experiential information. Our thematic reviews allow us to gain significant insights across an entire service or organisation
We have been delivering analytical solutions since the formation of Niche in 1992. We provide bespoke analysis and insight for questions of capacity, demand flow, and service performance. Analytic work also provides quantitative perspectives for our investigations and evaluations.
Niche is always innovating and developing our consultancy practice, the products we offer, and the excellence we deliver. Our firm is not just about what we do as a business, but how we work as a team. We are an Employee-Owned Trust, and we are one of the few consultancies of our kind to have achieved certified B Corp status. We are committed to adding social value in everything we do.
Becoming an Employee Owned Trust (EOT) has been an important step in developing our company’s culture of shared responsibility. All of our staff are ‘co-owners’ within the EOT, which means they have a direct say in how our company runs.
As a B Corp, we’re counted among businesses that are leading a global movement for an inclusive, equitable and regenerative economy.
B Corps are dedicated to high standards of social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency, ensuring their operations benefit all stakeholders, not just shareholders. The B Impact Assessment evaluates a company’s practices and outputs across five categories: governance, workers, community, the environment, and customers.
Niche are proud to meet these standards, and we are always looking for ways we can continue to improve.
Niche Ward to Board (NW2B) is our not-for-profit arm and underscores our aim of doing ‘business for good’.
NW2B allows us to share insights for healthcare learning, supporting organisations to improve and develop and to inform national policy. Examples include our nationally recognised ‘Homicide Brief’, our many articles and ‘how to’ guides.
To get in contact with a member of our team or find out more information about the services we supply see here.
As a firm, we value our independence and integrity to the utmost. We have built a solid, long-standing reputation for delivering independent investigations, reviews and evaluations which can be trusted by our clients and regulatory bodies nationally. Niche has no contractual or other relationships with any other organisation which would compromise our independence; regardless of bill-payer or commissioning client. Conflicts are assessed before and throughout the lifespan of each project we work on.
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