Healthcare expertise, commercially applied.
Clockwork Health Group is led by Nicola Simms — a mental health nurse and healthcare operator with over fifteen years' experience helping care businesses launch, register and grow with clarity.
A clinical mind with a commercial edge.
Nicola Simms is the founder of Clockwork Health Group. With more than fifteen years inside the UK healthcare sector — across mental health nursing, CQC-regulated services and healthcare operations — she founded the group to give care business owners the kind of practical, specialist support she spent years building from the inside.
Her background bridges two worlds that rarely sit together: front-line clinical care and the commercial mechanics of running a healthcare business. From mental health wards to temporary staffing operations, registration, compliance and growth, she has worked through every part of the system care founders are now navigating.
Clockwork Health Group exists to share that experience in a structured, usable way — so founders can build credible, compliant and commercially sound care businesses without learning every lesson the hard way.
- 15+ years of healthcare industry experience
- Registered mental health nursing background
- Hands-on healthcare operations leadership
- Experience across CQC-regulated services
- Temporary staffing business operations expertise
- Specialist in healthcare growth, compliance & systems
Why Clockwork was created.
Too many promising care businesses stall in the same places — unclear registration routes, fragile systems, weak digital presence, policies that don't reflect the real service, and growth left entirely to chance.
Clockwork Health Group was created to fix that. The brand brings together the registration, structure, content, systems and lead generation tools healthcare founders actually need — delivered with the precision and accountability the sector demands.
It is built for serious operators: people who want their care business to launch properly, run cleanly, and grow with intention.
Five disciplines, one practitioner.
The advantage of working with a founder-led, healthcare-specific consultancy is integration. Clinical context, commercial logic, compliance detail and operational delivery are not handed off between teams — they are considered together.
Built from years inside clinical and regulated environments.
Models, pricing and growth shaped for real care businesses.
CQC frameworks, evidence and audit-ready documentation.
Systems and templates that ship — not theory decks.
Lead generation, content and conversion built for the sector.
What I help healthcare founders with.
Practical, end-to-end guidance through registration — from provider and manager applications to evidence packs.
Consultancy on structuring, compliance frameworks and operational systems for new healthcare staffing businesses.
Premium, conversion-ready websites built specifically for care providers and clinical brands.
Email marketing and outreach automations designed for healthcare growth and steady client flow.
Qualified healthcare leads delivered on demand — no retainers, no long contracts.
Tailored, audit-ready policies aligned to your service model and regulatory expectations.
Private autism, ADHD and dyslexia assessments for children and adults — the specialist clinical arm of Clockwork Health Group.
Let's build your healthcare business properly.
Whether you're preparing for CQC registration, launching a staffing operation or scaling an existing care service — start with a focused conversation.