Seagry Consultancy was founded by Mike Barber in order to provide finance-focused consultancy services to the NHS, grounded in significant experience and expertise. Prior to founding Seagry, Mike was a member of Ernst & Young’s NHS Advisory Leadership Team, and led the firm’s NHS finance practice, where he was responsible for overseeing the delivery of a large number of challenging and complex projects. But after more than a decade at EY, he felt a decision had to be made: “I enjoyed EY, and particularly working with a group of fantastic colleagues, but I’d reached the point where if I had stayed, the likelihood was that I would have finished my career at EY. So if I was ever going to make a change, now was the time.”

So four years ago, Mike made the change, and set up Seagry Consultancy. “The name’s not very creative: it’s just named after my village”, he says (Seagry is a village close to Malmesbury, in a picturesque part of Wiltshire).

Malmesbury Abbey, close to Seagry in Wiltshire

The initial objective he set himself was simply to keep himself busy. But quickly, he had more work than he could handle, and started pulling teams together. Now Seagry has 15-20 people working on projects. “Seagry Consultancy has grown rapidly over the past few years, and there have been some fantastic achievements, but what I am most proud of is establishing our team of talented and dedicated individuals, all experts in their fields, and an absolute pleasure to work with.” Seagry’s focus is 100% NHS:

“Most of what we do has a finance element, although we work across a broad range of services, with the golden thread being supporting our clients to make the most of their limited resources. We’re supporting health system collaborations, ‘post-COVID’ elective recovery programmes, operational efficiency improvement, complex procurements and Business Case development. We’re increasingly supporting NHS organisations to improve digital maturity, helping to harness the potential of technology within budgetary constraints”

This year, Seagry became a Bramble Hub partner, and together we recently won our first project - a consultancy exercise to support the potential merger of two NHS trusts.

Seagry’s services can be purchased from Bramble Hub via frameworks – see their partner page for more information.