Strategy
Brand and role analysis. What each home visit should signal. Which roles need their own look. Where the current wardrobe is breaking down on transit days and overnight shifts.
Home care · Spitex
NGAVA Spitex
A wardrobe for Swiss home-care nursing groups. Reads as trusted from the first doorbell. Holds across every shift the team runs.
The first thing a Spitex patient sees is the nurse at the door. Most groups have outsourced that surface to a catalogue.
An atelier-made wardrobe for Spitex organisations, home-care nursing networks and mobile-care groups. Staffwear engineered for transit, lounge layers for overnight care, footwear and the patient-facing packaging that travels with the visit. Designed in Zurich and made in the named Porto workshops, on one signed contract.
Best fit.
Swiss Spitex organisations, home-care nursing groups, mobile-care networks, regional home-care chains.
Not the fit.
Generic scrubs resold from a catalogue. Production handed to factories not on your contract. One-off small runs without a recurring supply commitment.
Who this is for
- Spitex organisations
- Home-care nursing groups
- Mobile-care networks
- Regional home-care chains
- Premium home-health services
- Hospice and palliative home-care
- Mobile physiotherapy networks
What we solve
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Catalogue scrubs that flatten a Spitex brand the moment a patient opens the door.
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Uniforms designed for stationary shifts, then asked to survive a day of transit between homes.
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Brand drift between batches. Fit drifts. Colour drifts. Every reorder breaks the look you established.
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Reorders that arrive late for new hires, and not at all for damaged kit during a shift handover.
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No supplier accountable for design, making and the year-on-year supply at the same time.
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Patient-facing kit, folders and post-visit cards that read from a different rule book than the staffwear.
What changes after deployment
What the team notices, once the wardrobe is in use.
- 01
Every nurse, every visit, wears one approved look. The mark on the chest and the patch on the sleeve hold this quarter and the next.
- 02
Uniforms engineered for the day a Spitex nurse actually runs. Transit layers, lounge pieces for overnight care, footwear that survives the stairwell.
- 03
New hires receive a fitted starter kit in five working days. Replacements run through the standing programme, not through a procurement scramble.
- 04
Patient-facing packaging, leave-behind kits and seasonal materials read as the same brand as the apron at the door.
- 05
The catalogue, the care guides and the reorder thresholds are documented, signed and audited every year.
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One signed contract. Design in Zurich, production in the named Porto workshops, QC on the bench in Porto, and the reorders that follow.
What we hold from brief to reorder
Three sets of work on one signed contract. The pieces we design and make. The operations that bring them to a doorstep at any scale. The supply that keeps the wardrobe alive across every shift and every new hire.
01
Scope
What we design and make
- 01 Transit uniforms
- 02 Lounge layers
- 03 Footwear & accessories
- 04 Patient packaging
02
Operations
How we bring it to life
- 01 Paid samples
- 02 Production in Portugal
- 03 On-site QC
- 04 Per-piece delivery
03
Lifecycle
What stays running
- 01 Reorder programme
- 02 New-hire kits
- 03 Replacement cover
- 04 Seasonal refreshes
Six layers behind every wardrobe
Every Spitex engagement runs on the same six-layer template, adapted to your brand and the day your team actually runs.
Design
Uniform, lounge layer, footwear and packaging concepts. Colour, materials, embroidery and woven labels, drawn under NDA from the first call.
Sample
Mandatory paid sample phase. Fit, durability and wash behaviour validated on the bench in Porto before any production cut is approved.
Production
Made inside the named partner workshops in Porto. Tech-pack tolerances and sizing matrices are contract terms, not aspirations.
Logistics & Reorder
Per-piece or kit delivery. New-hire kits, replacements and seasonal refreshes, all running on the standing programme that grows with the team.
Governance
An approved catalogue, care guides, supplier documentation and reorder thresholds, so the wardrobe stays consistent across every visit and every shift.
How we build NGAVA Spitex
Six phases. Each one paid for and signed off before the next begins. Each one closing a specific category of risk on the way to a wardrobe that ships and stays consistent through the years that follow.
Timeline ~14 weeks from kickoff to first delivery · lifecycle programme ongoing thereafter
- 01
Discover
Week 0We learn your goals, your team, your standards and your timeline.
- 02
Concept & Design
Weeks 1–3Sketches, materials, tech packs and a costed brief — approved before any sampling.
- 03
Sample Development
Weeks 4–7Hand-built prototypes, fit sessions and refinement until the sample passes for production.
- 04
Production
Weeks 8–14Manufactured by our long-standing partner workshops in Portugal. Small and large runs.
- 05
Quality Control
Weeks 14–15Multi-stage inspection on-site in Porto. Defects don't leave the workshop.
- 06
Delivery
From week 15Packaged, kitted and shipped on time — per-piece or in bulk, EU and international.
Three ways to engage
Start with a paid diagnosis, commission the full system, or move into a managed supply programme that grows with every new hire. Pricing on request, scoped to your team.
Concept Package
Paid diagnosis. Direction before commitment.
- Investment
- From CHF 7,500
- Timeline
- 3–4 weeks
- Discovery workshop with leadership
- Brand and role analysis
- Moodboard and product direction
- Initial uniform and lounge concepts
- Sample roadmap
- Production estimate at your team scale
Identity System Package
The full NGAVA Spitex.
- Investment
- CHF 60,000 – 160,000 typical
- Timeline
- 10–14 weeks
- Full uniform, lounge, footwear and accessory design system
- Patient-facing packaging design
- Paid samples for fit, durability and wash behaviour
- Tech packs and production specs
- Production in the named Porto workshops
- Per-piece or kit delivery
Managed Supply Program
We run the supply. You run the visits.
- Investment
- From CHF 2,000 / month
- Timeline
- Annual programme
- New-hire starter kits
- Replacement and damage cover
- Seasonal refreshes
- Reorder portal access
- Approved uniform catalogue
- Recurring quality control
What this system is not
A clear refusal list is part of the work.
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Generic scrubs resold from someone else's catalogue.
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Disposable single-use garments.
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Engagements for home-care groups below roughly twenty active nurses. The contract does not pay back below that line.
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Production handed to any factory not named on your contract. Every piece is made inside the Porto workshops you signed with.
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Shipping without QC on the bench in Porto.
Proof: six programmes, one contract
Six Spitex programmes to date. The most public reference is the Spitex MeGaherz wardrobe. Crew shirt, polo, outerwear, lounge layer, socks and patient-facing packaging. Designed under NDA, sampled on the bench in Porto and made in the named partner workshops. The same contract holds every NGAVA Spitex engagement.
Read the caseSample policy
We sample by hand before we build. Footwear from €1,500 per model. Textile pieces from €350. Paid up front and non-refundable. The fee covers materials, master patterns and the time of the Porto team. When a programme moves into production, a portion of the sample fee may be credited against the order.
Footwear sample · €1,500 Textile sample · €350
Where the wardrobe starts
Begin with the Concept Package
We answer inside one business day with a scoped Concept Package proposal. Mutual NDA on the first call.