UMA × The Lister Alliance.
A new approach to digital technology in healthcare. The Alliance embeds digital across NHS Trusts via Living Labs. UMA is a technology partner, providing the workplace operating layer that turns intelligent hospitals from concept into operating reality.
Trust leaders, ICS, design and build.
Trust leaders, integrated care systems, and the architects who shape the buildings.
The Alliance brings NHS Trust leadership, integrated care systems (ICS), and the architecture / engineering / construction industry around the same table. UMA contributes the platform layer that ties sensors, rooms, people, and clinical workflow into a single operating picture.
Embed digital, across the NHS.
Living Labs inside NHS Trusts, demonstrating accessible, efficient, personalised care.
The Lister Alliance partners with NHS Trusts to create Living Labs: controlled environments that prove how digital technology changes practitioner experience, patient outcomes, and the day-to-day economics of healthcare delivery.
An NHS doing more, with less.
A system doing extraordinary work, without the operating layer to match it.
Bottlenecks, manual processes, fragmented data. The Alliance takes a bottom-up approach, Trust by Trust, ward by ward, so technology lands where the work actually happens, not where the procurement diagram says it should.
Aligned with the New Hospital Programme.
UMA is the workplace operating layer inside the intelligent hospital.
Resource matching, clinical room scheduling, presence data, and visitor flow, all built for healthcare residency requirements. Same platform UMA runs in commercial estate, hardened for NHS, NHS-D, and DSP Toolkit alignment.
What we are exploring with NHS Trusts.
- 01Smart scheduling for clinical estate
Matching consult rooms, theatres and shared equipment to actual demand, so clinicians find the room and the kit they need, when they need it, instead of hunting the corridor.
- 02GP practice operations
Bringing booking, occupancy and environmental data into primary care, so practice managers can run the building the way a clinical team runs a list, with visibility, not guesswork.
- 03Care delivered in the community
Workplace data extended beyond the hospital walls into community clinics, GP hubs, diagnostic centres, and the everyday buildings where most NHS contact actually happens.
What UMA has produced with the Alliance.
Stephen Milner: UMA on the future of healthcare
The UMA founder on how the workplace operating layer fits into intelligent hospitals: resource matching, presence, and the day-to-day operational picture clinicians actually need.
Watch on the Alliance ↗Exploring smart, sustainable workplaces
Stephen Milner (UMA) and John Monaghan (Cisco) on smart technologies and data-driven design for people-first, sustainable healthcare environments.
Watch on the Alliance ↗Harnessing technology for enhanced rehabilitation
Living Lab trials at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust: equipment tracking, AI-enhanced CCTV, voice controls, and smarter resource management to relieve pressure on rehab services.
Read the case study ↗Smart healthcare spaces, for people and the planet
How integrated sensors and data across NHS sites improve patient outcomes, staff experience, and energy efficiency at the same time.
Watch on the Alliance ↗