Unlocking potential in People, Products and Practice
Clinical expertise. Commercial insight. Enabling participation and quality of life.
Access Parity helps postural management, adaptive equipment and assistive technology companies grow, develop and succeed by bringing together clinical expertise, commercial strategy and specialist industry knowledge.
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People
Developing confident, knowledgeable teams.
Helping commercial, clinical and technical teams better understand the people they serve through specialist training, clinical education and practical support.
Products
Helping great products reach their potential.
Supporting product development, market positioning, launches and UK market entry with insight grounded in real clinical and commercial experience.
Practice
Raising standards through knowledge and expertise.
Supporting better clinical reasoning, assessment and postural management practice through education, consultancy and collaboration.
How Access Parity can help
Our work can be tailored around individual projects, ongoing consultancy or longer-term commercial partnerships.
From business development and market entry to product development and professional training, we help organisations turn good ideas and great products into meaningful outcomes for the people who need them.
Business Development & Commercial Strategy
Supporting growth opportunities, market development, sales strategy, commercial planning and hands-on business development activity.
Clinical & Product Consultancy
Bringing clinical insight into product development, product trials, case studies, technical-team education, positioning and decision-making.
Training & Education
Specialist clinical, product and consultative-sales training for commercial, clinical and technical teams.
UK Market Entry & Interim Specialist Support
Helping international companies understand and develop the UK market, including interim business development, product specialist and hands-on sales support.
Why Access Parity?
The best outcomes happen when clinical need, product design and commercial strategy are aligned.
Clinical Need
Product Design
Commercial Strategy
Quality of life  Participation  Engagement
Access Parity brings these worlds together.
Rather than approaching a challenge purely from a clinical or commercial perspective, we consider the whole picture — the person using the product, the clinicians recommending it, the teams selling and supporting it, and the organisation bringing it to market or developing products.
The result is clearer strategy, stronger teams, better products and, ultimately, better outcomes for people with disabilities and complex needs.
About Richard
Clinical understanding. Commercial experience. Industry knowledge.
Access Parity was founded by Richard Harvey, who holds a PgDip in Occupational Therapy and a PgCert in Postural Management for People with Complex Disabilities. His clinical background includes experience in paediatrics, wheelchair services and postural management for people with complex disabilities.
Richard brings more than a decade of experience across the postural management, adaptive equipment and assistive technologies sector, spanning clinical practice, training, product development, sales, marketing, business development and senior commercial leadership.
Having worked across both the clinical and commercial sides of the sector, Richard brings a practical understanding of the needs of clinicians, users, families, manufacturers and distributors — and how these perspectives can be brought together to create better products, stronger businesses and better outcomes.
A person-centred approach has been at the heart of Richard’s career and remains central to the way Access Parity works.