Avencera

Our strategy work combines imagination, market insight, and the execution-smarts required to help leaders translate ambition into impact. 🚀 Whether we’re helping you define your strategic goals, determine where you should play and how you can differentiate, or what you’ll need to do to make it happen, working with Avencera feels distinctly different to traditional strategy consulting. 🎯 We know you need more than cautious and caveated commentary in decks which dodge the bottom-line question that matters: what should you do…? We revel in the fact that it’s our job to give you evidenced, unequivocal, and actionable advice. 📊 To us, anything less is not strategy work. 💡 Here are some of the ways we most frequently start working with clients on strategy 👇 

The Driver & Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) this week continued market engagement activity on Theory Test Services – which will likely be worth up to £840m over 7 years. The requirement will likely include: 📝 Delivery of c.3.6 million theory tests per year – the UK’s largest e-assessment service  💻 A secure digital assessment platform, booking systems and customer support   🚗 Operation and management of a nationwide test centre network across GB and NI    We think the deal is particularly interesting because: 📊 It's a high-volume, mission-critical statutory service  🔐 It combines services from digital platforms to national test centre operations  ⭐ It’s a chance to reshape a national service that millions of people rely on every year We specialise in working with strategic suppliers to capture major public-sector deals.

Lowest healthy life expectancy since 2011. Is longevity without health a good thing? 🩺🚑 Last week, the Office of National Statistics published data on healthy life expectancy. Unlike recent NHS statistical updates on waiting lists and waiting times, it didn't receive much national press coverage. 📰 But its conclusions are profoundly important. It showed that the number of years that Britons can expect to spend in good general health has fallen - and is at the lowest level since their dataset began in 2011. 🔎📉 Healthy life expectancy fell for women and men, in every country of the UK, and in every region in England. And these latest data show that longstanding regional and social inequalities are worsening. A baby born in Blackpool can expect to enjoy 18 fewer years in good health than one in born in Kingston-upon-Thames. ⚖️ There couldn't be a clearer sign that despite the best efforts of health and care staff (and the success of many small focussed initiatives) that what we're doing at the moment isn't working. We need to redesign how health and care is delivered. This will require new partnerships between the NHS and the rest of the public sector. It will need us to reinvent how individuals, healthcare professionals and managers use technology and data. 💡📊 It won't be easy. But at Avencera, we work on the most complex problems our partners have. What do you need to reimagine in order to improve the most important outcome in healthcare? 🚀 

This week, we're braving the blizzard conditions on the East Coast of the USA to deepen our collaboration networks ❄️ ⛷️ Our founder and MD, Matt Hamnett and Katy Weeks, are in Boston and New York engaging with thought leaders, innovators, and commercial partners who share our interest in education, health and public services. Yesterday, they took a full day of fascinating meetings... online, because of the blizzard which dropped more than 20 inches of snow on Boston in 24 hours. 🌏 🌪️ Through some of those meetings, we selected three amazingly talented Massachusetts Institute of Technology undergad students who'll join us for internships this summer. 🧑🎓 ☀️ They'll join Matt in A WORKS to help us scope and build AI solutions to address our markets' greatest challenges; we maintain a pipeline of the opportunities we want to explore, when our capacity and collaborators' interests align. 💻 🤝   Later in the week, trains permitted, Matt and Katy will be working out of our office on Hudson St, NYC. If you're in the city, and interested in how AI innovations can help transform outcomes - drop us a line. 🌆 🍎 Our search for answers transcends borders, and inclement weather!

Great to see our Senior Consultant Dean Okereke contributing to the conversation at Changemaker Moments: AI Futures.

Today, we’re celebrating Mariaclara Jeria Navarro A Chilean lawyer with a Master of Public Administration from the LSE School of Public Policy, Clarita brings experience across migration law, public service reform, and nonprofit leadership, where she led large-scale volunteer programmes and contributed during periods of national transformation. She’s already delivering transformational impact through the PMO which sits at the centre of our business – supporting our go to market, staff engagement, and people practices with her remarkable combination of imagination, delivery discipline, and colleague-focus. She is known for turning strategy into action and bringing clarity, energy, and structure to complex challenges. We’re delighted to have her on the team. 

Proud to see our team doing such great work in India. Real teamwork and deep expertise behind what we’re building. Gemma Gronland Declan Saviano

Our transformation support is fuelled by imagination, market insight, execution-smarts, and a willingness to collaborate in whatever ways will best solve the problem. Whether we’re providing an objective assessment of where you are, helping you define target operating model, or going deep to help you drive change at pace… working with Avencera feels distinctly different to working with traditional consulting firms. Our team loves nothing more than the hard work of change. You’ll find us on the pitch, from the outset – doing whatever it takes to identify the actions that will make the difference, build momentum, and realise the benefits you’re expecting from your investment. Here are some of the ways we most frequently start working with clients on transformation 👇  

The Ministry of Justice is preparing to procure the next generation of rehabilitative services for women in prison and the community, with an estimated value of £209m over eight years. The programme supports women to rebuild their lives by strengthening confidence, developing practical skills, addressing trauma or substance misuse, and to secure stable housing and employment. It’s a significant opportunity to shape services that deliver meaningful, long-term outcomes. What makes this particularly compelling is the scale and intent behind the approach. A contract of this length gives providers the headroom to invest, innovate and embed system-wide change, whilst the proposed partnership model signals closer collaboration with the MoJ, and creates the space to design solutions around real need. With the competition expected to launch in October 2026, organisations have a valuable window now to think strategically and form winning partnerships. We support clients across the full lifecycle, from early capture and positioning, through bid development, and into mobilisation; helping turn ambition into services that work in practice. If you’re exploring how to engage with this opportunity, we’d love to chat. 

The new National Cancer Plan for England is a reminder that cancer outcomes are shaped as much by systems as by medicine.  Earlier diagnosis, faster pathways, better outcomes, more equitable care; none of these happen through clinical excellence alone. They depend on how well data, workflows, and services are designed and work together across the system.  Our colleague Dean Okereke argues that the real test of this plan won’t be its ambition, but whether the NHS can deliver it consistently across organisations, pathways, and places.  The plan is clear about the role of digital — from data and analytics, to AI-enabled diagnostics, to better information sharing and patient access. The challenge now is focus - turning that intent into practical change that actually improves flow, speed and experience on the ground.  So, a question for NHS leaders and health-tech partners:  If you had to prioritise one digital lever to accelerate delivery of the Cancer Plan over the next 12 months, which would it be?  1️⃣ interoperability  2️⃣ pathway analytics  3️⃣ workflow redesign  4️⃣ patient-facing tools