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 »
The recent pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 highlighted significant shortcomings in healthcare estates infrastructure across the NHS. A report commissioned by the Institute for Government ‘How Fit were Public Service for Coronavirus’ stated that ‘The NHS could have entered this crisis with a more resilient health infrastructure if it had invested more in recent years’ (Davies… Read more »
Infrastructure planning is fundamental in the move towards building strong and effective Integrated Care Systems. It acts as a key enabler to delivering high-quality patient care, improving system-wide access to health and social care, and addressing health equalities. It is also key to delivering a more sustainable NHS. To quote the Fuller Stocktake Report: “Estates… Read more »