This project demonstrates the effective healthcare planning and delivery of some of the key recommendations of the Fuller Report. . NHS Property Services partnered with Humber North Yorkshire ICB, Nimbuscare (GP Federation), Primary Care Networks, Acute and Mental Health Trusts to reuse underutilised healthcare space and to support the creation of a neighbourhood hub. In… Read more »
1. Reduction of Hospital Acquired Infections (HAIs) a. NHS Medical Director Stephen Powis: ‘single rooms should be the ‘default’ as they boost privacy and infection control.’ b. ‘minimum of 50% single rooms when investing in new or refurbished hospitals’ to be considered 2. Prefabricated interior partitioning designed to refurbish existing facilities a. flexible, adaptable and… Read more »
Delivering Hard FM services through a single ‘generalist’ supplier is a common supply chain strategy, but that is not to say it is always fit for purpose. Quality Trusted Solutions (QTS) – a wholly-owned subsidiary of Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust (CNWL) have developed an innovative new solution in Hard FM delivery…. Read more »
Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (MPFT) formed following the merger of two Trusts in 2018 which bought together numerous different estate data sets. As part of a review of those data sets in 2022, Medical Architecture were asked to assist the new organization in the development of an Estates Strategy for the North Staffordshire region…. Read more »
Virtual Reality (VR) – Transparency of final outcomes is enhanced through the development of VR in construction. Estates are able to walk around and explore their finished space before a single piece of material is cut. – Clients, designers and stakeholders can collaboratively make real-time adjustments to a design in a virtual world, visible on… Read more »
The Procure Partnerships Framework is a compliant and flexible framework that has supported 65 NHS Foundation Trusts in the past year. We propose to discuss estates and facilities’ ability to meet the required Diagnostic capacity, Elective Recovery, Mental Health initiatives, and Net Zero targets. We will present the Framework’s expertise of best value delivering healthcare… Read more »
The NHS currently faces complex challenges in its ability to deliver current and long-term service demand. These challenges come in several forms from vacancies, growing waiting lists, aging buildings, and infrastructure at its capacity limits. Estate infrastructure poses a serious concern to many NHS trusts, with backlogs for building repair mounting, proposed new infrastructure to… Read more »
Transformation is placed at the heart of the UK government’s drive to improve productivity, increase efficiency, and improve outcomes across the NHS. This is reflected in the New Hospitals Programme in England, which represents a significant investment in the NHS estate and infrastructure, aimed at enabling delivery of new service models. Healthcare providers need to… Read more »
The Heartlands Treatment Centre (HTC), the first large-scale capital investment at the hospital since 2008, boosts the Trust’s capacity to meet healthcare requirements of local people. Offering a ‘one-stop-shop’ for patients, the state-of-the-art centre brings a range of services under one roof, including diagnostics, day case procedures, endoscopy, audiology, outpatients, therapies, and imaging services, seeing… Read more »
NHS Property Services and NHS Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire Clinical Commissioning Group, working together with Kier recently delivered the new £10.9m Devizes Care Centre As one of the county’s first integrated care centres, it provides accommodation for primary care, community health, mental health and other associated services – all centred around… Read more »
