Committed to Clinical Excellence
in Healthcare

At the heart of healthcare systems, the real-world experience and satisfaction, both of those who use and those who deliver services, is an important indicator of service quality and outcomes. By aligning patient needs, science and resources, we can look beyond access to medicines to how medicines can be integrated into healthcare systems and embedded in patient pathways. We spearhead the evidence, knowledge and experience of clinical and research networks to fully realise their potential, and deliver effective meaningful health gains for the rare disease community.

Specialists in

RARE DISEASE

Drawing on over 20 years of developing healthcare networks across the UK and Europe, we have supported the rare disease community to connect, to share and to learn, drawing from their collective wealth of experience, expertise and knowledge.

About Us

Square Root Thinking


Square Root is a healthcare consultancy based in Europe. We create the space to connect, share and learn, allowing us to draw on our collective experience and knowledge and find innovative solutions to address collective needs. The key to unlocking this potential is a diversity of perspectives, drawing real-world experience and information from various stakeholders.

At the heart of healthcare systems, the real-world experience and satisfaction, both of those who use and those who deliver services, is an important indicator of service quality and outcomes. By aligning patient needs, science and resources, we can look beyond access to medicines to how medicines can be integrated into healthcare systems and embedded in patient pathways.

We celebrate the variation in clinical practice, as the hotbed of new emerging best practice and innovation. Adopting simple outcomes as the common currency to codify knowledge and identification of innovation, only standardising based on proof of improvement.

We understand the evidence, finding the root cause of effective treatment and medicines, to target outcomes that are achievable for the right patient population. Through building practical healthcare pathways on the root of the latest thinking and evidence base, we help patients, clinicians and payers to get the best from highly specialized healthcare services and medicine products.

Publications

Global Health for Rare Diseases Through Primary Care

Published: The Lancet Global Health, 2024 Link: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(24)00134-7/fulltext

Together4RD position statement on collaboration between European reference networks and industry

Published: Orphanet Journal Rare Diseases, 2023 Link: https://ojrd.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13023-023-02853-9

The Importance of Psychological Support for Parents and Caregivers of Children with a Rare Disease at Diagnosis

Published: Rare Diseases Orphan Drugs Journal 2022 Link: https://www.oaepublish.com/articles/rdodj.2022.04

Enhancing the value of clinical networks for Rare Diseases

Published: Rare Diseases Orphan Drugs Journal, 2022 Link: https://www.oaepublish.com/articles/rdodj.2022.01  

Strategic Advice & Policy

We provide strategic advice and policy development on rare diseases, mental health, highly specialised healthcare and advanced therapies, looking beyond access policy, but focusing on the integration of medicines and interventions into healthcare systems and local clinical pathways.

PATIENT ADVOCACY

Our strength is in the diversity of our community. Placing the needs central to advocacy, we have engaged with a diverse community of patient groups, clinical networks and industry partners to develop effective patient advocacy strategies.

RESEARCH, GUIDELINES & CARE PATHWAYS

We appraise clinical data and published literature, targeting the effective use of evidence to care, medicine and treatments with the optimal patient populations. We are leaders in patients-clinical partnerships to develop clinical guidelines and healthcare pathways based on their insights, addressing the population needs and the latest evidence and thinking.

ENGAGEMENT, EVENTS & MODERATION

Connecting communities is at the heart of our work. We enjoy developing and moderating dynamic workshops, events and webinars to translate stakeholders’ perspectives into practical actions and achievable goals, develop strategic engagement approach and foster sustainable relationship between patient groups, clinical networks and industry partners.

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Rare disease healthcare pathways

December 4, 2017 Matt Bolz-Johnson
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Our healthcare pathways strike the balance of clinically meaningful information, data and evidence, whilst being flexible enough to cope with...

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Network Development & Peer Learning

December 4, 2017 Matt Bolz-Johnson
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Connecting communities is at the heart of our work We believe that together we are stronger, sharing our knowledge, experience...

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Evidence Informed Care & Medicine

December 4, 2017 Matt Bolz-Johnson
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We appraise clinical data and published literature, targeting the effective use of evidence to care, medicine and treatments with the...

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