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The NHS estate that responds.

UMA Health OS turns the network you already own into the operating layer for clinical estate. Live data on welfare, utilisation, environments and compliance, built with NHS Trusts, ICBs, primary care, residential and care-at-home.

Our story

Built from a single frustration.

In 2017, our founder walked into a client site with a huge property portfolio and could not find a meeting room. An experienced CTO, he decided the answer was not more property. It was better data. That idea became UMA. What began as a voice assistant is now UMA Vision, the platform our customers use to run their space, their integrations and their environmental data from one place.
  • 80+Live customersacross every continent
  • ~1MBookings takendesk and room bookings processed to date
  • 50k+Active usersusing UMA Vision today worldwide
Why now

An NHS estate under pressure.

Four numbers define the operating environment every Trust faces today. The point solutions used to address them cannot move at the speed of clinical demand.
  • 7M Missed outpatient appointments / yr Feeds the waiting list, drives cost.
  • <75% Theatre utilisation Against an 85% productive benchmark. A 13-point gap, ~£800M/yr in deferred throughput.
  • £10bn Backlog maintenance High-risk items rising year on year.
  • Rising energy / bed day Against live Net Zero cycles and stretched estates budgets.
The problem

Eight problems we see on every healthcare estate.

Estates and digital teams already know these. Fixing them is a budget and integration problem, not a problem of ambition.
  • 01
    Poor clinical space utilisation

    Theatres and clinical rooms running well below the 85% productive benchmark. Capacity held without evidence, or lost without notice.

  • 02
    Lack of live data and insights

    Decisions made on monthly spreadsheets and paper rounds. No way to see what is happening on the floor right now.

  • 03
    Rigid estate, hard to flex

    Buildings that cannot respond to demand. Capital tied up in space that no longer matches the clinical model.

  • 04
    Poor environmental control

    Empty rooms conditioned all day. Occupied rooms over-heating. IPC and ventilation cases relying on point-in-time readings.

  • 05
    Limited scalability across sites

    Each Trust, practice or home runs a different stack. No common data model for benchmarking or governance.

  • 06
    Energy waste and rising bills

    BMS, HVAC and lighting on timetables, not occupancy. Net Zero cycles competing with day-to-day clinical demand.

  • 07
    Security and access challenges

    Drug stores, controlled areas, restricted suites. Chain-of-custody held in paper logs, audit trails reconstructed after the fact.

  • 08
    Unplanned maintenance and downtime

    Equipment failures and seal drift caught after the event. Reactive callouts instead of preventative cycles.

Our point of view

One platform. Seven stages.

The blueprint applied on every UMA Health OS engagement. Each stage builds on the last, delivered in partnership with clinical and estates teams. Aligned to DSP Toolkit and the Lister Alliance framework.
  1. 01 Digital backbone

    Communication & connectivity

    UMA Mesh joins what the Trust already owns into one fabric: Teams, Webex, nurse call, intercom, access control, calendars, wayfinding.

  2. 02 Real-time protection

    Safety, security & compliance

    Non-intrusive sensors and automated policy enforcement replace episodic paper checks. Full digital audit, CQC and DSP Toolkit aligned.

  3. 03 Digital twin

    Data & analytics

    Ward-level virtual replicas updating in real time. Live occupancy, comfort, response and movement, forecast before the fact.

  4. 04 Closed control loop

    Environmental & estate mgmt

    The twin moves from observation to action. BMS, HVAC, lighting and TRVs respond to live occupancy and clinical need, not timetables.

  5. 05 At the bedside

    Patient experience

    In-room tablets and voice interfaces give patients control, with dignity preserved. No cameras. Patient-adjacent data on AWS Bedrock.

  6. 06 Hard NHS problems

    Clinical & operational

    Theatre utilisation, DNAs and bed flow, addressed through one control plane. Real-time utilisation, joined-up messaging, live discharge signals.

  7. 07 Ready for next

    Future expansion

    Wearables, PPID, autonomous logistics, AR surfaces. Every future input joins the same Mesh. No platform rebuild.

How it joins up

One platform, UMA Healthcare OS.

Every stage of clinical booking and decision-making can be monitored from the UMA Healthcare OS.
UMA Health OS analytics dashboard surrounded by live estate metrics — buildings, floors, devices, beds, theatres and air quality
Use cases

What UMA Health OS does, where.

Seven sectors, one platform. Pick a sector to see the four scenarios UMA delivers there.

From ward welfare to estate rationalisation.

Acute estates run hot. Ageing buildings, tight capital, DSP Toolkit obligations. UMA gives estates and digital teams the live data to prove utilisation, protect patient welfare, and hold environments inside clinical spec.

  • 01
    Ward and bay welfare

    9-in-1 IAQ sensors track CO₂, TVOC, PM2.5, temperature, humidity and occupancy across every ward. Evidence for IPC, ventilation and welfare cases.

  • 02
    Theatres and procedure rooms

    PIR, time-of-flight and M365 / Cisco Spaces calendar sync. Real utilisation per theatre. Evidence for consolidation or to hold capacity.

  • 03
    Drug stores and controlled areas

    Fridge and freezer temperature sensors, door-contact and RFID access logs. Drift alerts and a full chain-of-custody audit, CQC and MHRA ready.

  • 04
    Clinical rest and handover

    PIR occupancy, noise and air-quality sensors in rest, handover and on-call rooms. Supports HSE welfare conversations and rota reviews.

Outcomes

The numbers behind the claim.

Benchmarks set against published NHS and healthcare peer data. Ranges are indicative and vary by site. Delivery terms are agreed per Trust.
  • 30% Lower energy / bed day

    Typical savings from occupancy-linked HVAC and lighting across ward blocks.

    UK Green Building Council · NHS estate study 2023
  • 85% Space utilisation target

    Up from a 50–60% baseline on shared clinical and admin spaces.

    NHS Property Services · utilisation benchmarks
  • £800M Operational savings p.a.

    Projected annual savings across the NHS estate from platform-led optimisation.

    UMA Vision · internal modelling against NHS Digital open data
  • 70% Fewer equipment failures

    Caught before the event through preventative cycles and drift alerting.

    UMA pilot data, anonymised
Delivery

How we deliver.

A phased rollout with clinical, estates and IT governance at every step. Clinical safety case (DCB 0129), NHS DTAC, ISO 27001, plus a quarterly Trust review board.
  1. 01 Weeks 0–4
    Discover

    Scope clinical and estates priorities with the Trust. Audit existing systems. Agree the site that proves the case.

  2. 02 Weeks 4–12
    Pilot

    Deploy on one ward or building. Validate the data, secure clinical sign-off, run alongside the existing operating rhythm.

  3. 03 Months 3–12
    Scale

    Roll out by department, by site. Monthly performance reviews against the agreed KPIs.

  4. 04 Year 2+
    Operate

    Steady-state optimisation. Quarterly benchmarks against NHS peers. New stages added as Trust priorities evolve.

Credentials

The standards we meet.

Patient-adjacent data on AWS Bedrock. Personal identifiable data stays inside the secure clinical environment. Full compliance against the standards Trusts and inspectors expect.
  • ISO 27001
  • NHS Data Security (DSPT)
  • DCB 0129: clinical safety
  • NHS DTAC
  • Cyber Essentials Plus
  • ICO registered

Start where the evidence matters most.

Pick a ward, a practice, a care home or a single dwelling. We will show real data inside eight weeks.