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Helping Trusts with their ‘digital transformation journey’
A webinar to be held by MRI Software in association with Health Estate Journal at 11.00 am on 1 May will focus on ‘the significant challenges the NHS faces in estates and facilities management due to fragmented systems, manual data collection, and inefficiencies’. It will examine how these can
be addressed using the real estate software specialist’s ‘single source of truth technology platform’. MRI Software says managing multiple applications (‘often 80- 120 per Trust’) is ‘creating data silos, increasing operational costs and inefficiencies, and hindering decision- making’. It said: “NHS England has recently confirmed £1 bn in duplicate spending as a result of using multiple systems. Our ACT (Automate, Consolidate, Transform) Approach is already helping Trusts with their digital transformation journey, and enabling them to streamline their operations and reduce wasted time and resources.” Users of the ACT framework can: n Automate: reducing reliance on
MRI Software added: “By
shifting from a supplier role to one of strategic partner, Essentia has been working with us alongside NHS Trusts to implement digital transformation, improving efficiency across estates and facilities.” The company says those Trusts that have implemented its solutions ‘have significantly reduced operational expenses, improved financial planning, and redirected savings toward patient care’.
manual processes by integrating digital workflows and streamlining data reporting.
n Consolidate: by merging multiple applications into ‘a single source of truth’.
n Transform: enhancing service delivery by optimising space utilisation, implementing energy management strategies, and strengthening supply chain efficiency.
Mace and Turner & Townsend’s key NHP appointment
NHS England has appointed a joint venture of global delivery consultant and ‘construction expert’, Mace, and professional services company, Turner & Townsend, as the Programme Delivery Partner (PDP) for the New Hospital Programme. Following a strategic review last September, the Health Secretary announced a ‘rebalancing’ of the portfolio of NHP hospital schemes, with secured funding in five-year ‘waves’ of investment. The programme will prioritise rebuilding healthcare facilities built using reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete, with the first seven projects delivered by 2030. Further hospitals will be delivered over the next 15 years and beyond. Mace and Turner & Townsend will lead the delivery consortium, working with an extensive national
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supply chain. Mace explained: “The NHP will champion a programmatic approach to deliver hospitals at greater speed, value for money, and safety. This will complement an industrialised construction methodology, standardised designs, and offsite manufacturing, to unlock opportunities for small and medium-sized suppliers across the country, while driving faster delivery of future-facing facilities that take advantage of modern clinical technologies.” Jason Millett, Group CEO at Mace (pictured), said: “The New Hospital Programme represents one of the most important social infrastructure opportunities of a generation, promising a legacy of transformative healthcare facilities for communities across the UK. “Having supported the
Department of Health and Social Care and NHS for several years,
Webinar presenter, Nick Hughes, Sales director at MRI Software Healthcare Solutions (pictured), has worked in the technology sector for over 40 years – for the last 10 for MRI Software, focusing on healthcare
estates and facilities solutions. He and his ‘Healthcare’ team provide technology solutions to over 100 NHS Trusts, supporting them with their digital transformation journey’. To register for the webinar, scan
the QR code or visit https://attendee.
gotowebinar.com/register/6669211 369495990876?source=magazine
‘Sister practice’ to focus on energy and decarbonisation
Cagni Williams Architects has launched a sister practice, Cagni Williams Energy, to focus on project decarbonisation, and particularly decarbonising dense urban areas. The practice believes this is
the first time an architectural studio has established a sister company dedicated exclusively to energy and decarbonising the built environment. Cagni Williams Energy will offer ‘research-based innovation, technical expertise, and a practical approach to providing the most effective energy solutions for refurbishment, repurposing, and retrofit projects, and new-build projects’. The practice is currently working on The Sidney Street Heat Network (see photo), a pilot project that will decarbonise a dense London area while providing more affordable energy for residents – via connections from a ground source borehole ambient loop to the heat pumps in homes and the stakeholder’s technical facility. It relies on boreholes dug deep beneath the public highway. Cagni Williams Energy says such a system ‘could be rolled out across the UK to decarbonise millions of homes’. Founding director, Laura
we’ve seen first-hand the benefit of providing the nation’s committed healthcare professionals and their patients with the state-of-the- art environments they deserve. Now, through our leading role in leading the PDP, we are committed to bringing that experience and expertise, along with new innovation, to deliver for future generations.”
Carrara-Cagni, said: “Now clients have set proper environmental goals, it’s important that consultants can implement for them the best commercial and efficient-energy solution with their restructuring projects.” The practice added: “The Sidney Street Heat Network project is designed to provide heating and cooling for 300 homes, plus a variety of other stakeholders, hospitals, a church, schools, and later living homes.”
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