Who we are

Jaime is a director at Fleet Architects and chair of Architects for Health, and a proven project designer, competition winner and studio leader. During his professional career he has been responsible for multiple projects with values ranging between £8 and £120 million and was one of three associate directors responsible for the management of a 65-person firm under a managing director. He is an experienced all-round designer with specialist skills in healthcare and has sat on the executive board of Architects for Health (AfH) since 2006. He has significant experience as the lead architect in major PFI schemes, including the preparation of a reference project for a $2 billion teaching hospital in Adelaide, Australia. He has been a visiting tutor at various universities since 2002, including Nottingham, Cardiff and London Metropolitan. Since 2012, Jaime Bishop and Richard Henson have been teaching third-year degree level students at London South Bank University and established their studio, the Transpontine Laboratory, based at the university, in 2014. Jaime was educated at the Royal College of Art, Bath University and the TU Delft Highrise Scholarship. He has been ARB registered and a member of RIBA since 2006. He is a recognised figure in the healthcare sector with connections throughout the industry. Jaime has detailed knowledge of traditional and private finance initiative (PFI) contracts, fee negotiation and project cost control. Jaime has sat on the board of the City and Hackney NHS Clinical Commissioning Group and social enterprise East London Integrated Care. He has also served as an elected governor at the Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

Richard is a seasoned Healthcare Executive and entrepreneur with extensive Board level experience in the private and public sector and has founded three successful healthcare businesses and successfully exited through acquisition. In 2014 Richard joined a national health consultancy organisation to advise, lead activity across the Health Sector and develop new business in health and care infrastructure investment and development. A well-known commentator on healthcare infrastructure investment and development he has managed large teams across the public and private sector to deliver complex transactions. Richard also has international experience in healthcare technology, development and infrastructure and deep domain knowledge of structured finance and has a particular interest in the impact of technology on health and care facility design. Richard has personally designed commercial structures for health infrastructure and PPP transactions which have delivered significant value to the NHS and international health development projects. He is guided by the principle of delivering value to Health Systems through effective public and private sector partnerships.

Jim Chapman is a chartered architect and urban designer, with more than 36 years' experience as a consultant delivering a wide range of projects in many sectors. In 2006, he established an independent consultancy, which focuses on supporting and advising clients on the delivery of high-quality projects.

Jonathan Erskine is the Executive director of the European Health Property Network (www.euhpn.eu) and a researcher at the Centre for Public Policy and Health (CPPH), School for Medicine, Pharmacy and Health, Durham University, UK. His research interests are in the areas of health service reform, the boundaries between primary and secondary care, and the relationship between the design of health service systems and the built healthcare environment. Jonathan has had a long association with the European Health Property Network and, until recently, was also a non-executive director with NHS Stockton Primary Care Trust, and vice-chair of the Board. He has co-authored chapters in two books, ‘Investing in Hospitals of the Future’, and ‘Capital Investment for Health: case studies from Europe’, produced in collaboration with the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies. His research at the CPPH, Durham University, has recently focused on the use of Lean in healthcare systems, particularly in relation to the ‘North East Transformation System’ – a region-wide quality improvement programme, which encompasses commissioning and provider NHS organisations. The report on this research was published in December 2014.

Kate is an executive director, corporate systems and infrastructure at Metro North Hospital and Health Service, providing oversight to an infrastructure portfolio that includes five hospitals and multiple community health services.

Claire is a qualified occupational therapist whose research and creative practice focuses on the role of design in promoting quality of life. Claire’s research focuses on the role of design and creative practice in promoting wellbeing and quality of life throughout the life-course with a particular focus on ageing. Within all aspects of her work, she is inspired by older people and by people living with dementia and the remarkable stories they tell about their lives. Claire utilises design methods including object-elicitation, photography and creative practice to build understanding of the experiences of the individuals she works alongside. Taking these insights as starting points, she develops creative responses in partnership with people to address the challenges they face. These responses have manifested themselves in films, commercially available products and nationally commissioned interventions and have informed government guidelines (NICE 2008 and 2015, Alzheimer Scotland, 2018 and 2020). She has authored eight books and has written widely about the value of creative practice and design and health.