Hospital set-up & commissioning
We cover new builds, expansions and conversions: service mix, bed and theatre planning, staffing models, equipment lists and a commissioning plan that ends with a safe opening day.
Healthcare operations & regulatory advisory
From approved plans to a licensed, running hospital.
Yau & Co. advises hospital owners, investors and operators across Southeast Asia. We cover licensing, clinical services planning and operational readiness. Our advice comes from people who have run wards and operating theatres themselves.
Services
Where we help
Licensing & regulatory compliance
We handle healthcare facility licensing, renewals and changes of service in Singapore and Malaysia. That includes readiness for inspections, the policies and records regulators expect, and the requirements for clinical facilities and infection control.
Clinical services development
We set up and grow surgical, endoscopy and robotic-assisted surgery services. That covers credentialing, case-mix planning, theatre workflow and outcome monitoring.
Governance, quality & research
We build clinical governance structures, quality and patient-safety programmes, data and registry projects, and research units, so that a facility can show its standards as well as claim them.
Approach
How an engagement runs
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Assess
We look at the site, the plans, the market and the regulatory position. You get a plain account of what is feasible, the risks and the critical path.
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Plan
We draw up the service plan, staffing, policies and the licensing route, sequenced against construction and recruitment.
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Prepare
We assemble the submissions, prepare for inspections and run operational readiness drills before patients arrive.
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Open & sustain
We support the opening and the first months of operation, and hand over governance so your team can run it.
Principal
Dr Joachim Yau
MBBS · MMed (Surgery) · FRCSEd · FAMS
Joachim is a consultant general surgeon whose subspecialty work is in upper gastrointestinal surgery and endoscopy. He is recognised as a general surgery specialist in both Singapore and Malaysia. Alongside his clinical practice, he has worked extensively in health regulation, hospital operations and pandemic response.
He founded Yau & Co. to give hospital projects advice that holds up both on the ward and in front of the regulator. He has published ten peer-reviewed papers across vascular surgery, health policy and operations, telemedicine and public health.
Contact
Planning a hospital or clinical service?
Send a short note on the project, its location and timeline. We reply to every enquiry.