About Pennant

Pennant Consulting helps hospitals and frail care facilities streamline operations with advanced real-time patient tracking and asset management solutions. From reducing delays to improving hospital efficiency and bed utilisation, our intelligent platform gives healthcare leaders the insights they need exactly when they need it.

WHO IS PENNANT

Pennant is a pioneering healthcare process and data company, seamlessly integrating into hospital infrastructures to master Patient and Asset tracking. Utilizing real-time location technology and sophisticated data analytics, our platform, Sense, redefines patient flow and asset optimization. We offer transparency into nuanced hospital operations and processes, driving immediate efficiencies, notably within the theatre and bed utilization environments. Through our platform, hospital providers and executives receive real-time, actionable insights, ensuring peak utilization, prompt care, and optimized Length of Stay and On-Time Start-Time metrics. Our strategic approach, underpinned by an autonomous data collection process and a continuous predictive modelling engine, positions Pennant as the gold standard
for modern hospital management.

OUR VISION

Our vision is to pioneer a hospital environment where Value Healthcare seamlessly aligns with cutting-edge data benchmarks, fostering operational excellence, unparalleled patient care and access to healthcare.
WHO IS PENNANT CONSULT

MEET THE TEAM

Where medicine and engineering meet… along with a healthy dose of IT

Jan Swanepoel

Jan completed his M.B.Ch.B. MMed (Anaes) with further post-graduate qualifications in Financial Management and LEAN Process Engineering. He is currently a specialist Healthcare Practitioner with key interests in management, focusing on system and resource management in the Healthcare industry.

Jan-Adrian Craggs

Jan-Adrian completed his BEng Industrial Engineering degree followed by LEAN Process Engineering certification. He is currently working in a Project Management field focusing on supply chain and logistic improvement projects. Key interests lies in the combination of Lean Healthcare and Engineering with IoT and Big Data tools for efficiency improvements.

Pieter Conradie

Pieter finished his BEng in Mechanical Engineering followed by a PhD in Industrial Engineering with a focus on cost modelling and efficiency improvements. He is currently working on process and system improvement strategies with a key interest in Data Science Management and Healthcare efficiency improvements.

Waldo Boshoff

Waldo earned his BEng in Industrial Engineering and went on to attain an Honors degree, emphasizing solution algorithms. In 2014, he established a business dedicated to cloud-based solution optimization. After nurturing and expanding the business for several years, Waldo successfully sold it in 2022. Currently, he serves as the technology
lead for Sense, Pennant’s suite of hospital management and optimization tools.

PROFESSIONAL SOLUTIONS

OUR PARTNERS

At Pennant Consult, trusted partnerships are central to how we deliver real-world healthcare solutions. We’re proud to support forward-thinking organisations such as The Eye Centre East London, East London Eye Hospital, and Evergrace Care with advanced tracking, visibility, and operational optimisation.

Our technology is powered by leading suppliers, including Quuppa, BluIOT, and Altron, innovators in Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) and real-time location systems.
Together, these collaborations enable us to drive smarter healthcare delivery across hospital and eldercare environments in South Africa.