THE NEW HOSPITAL PROGRAMME
wellbeing, can add to the environment we’re working in, and are playing our part in the social value of having a hospital in our community.”
She added: “Hospital 2.0 is all about
transforming all of the processes from end to end, so we’re picking up all the components throughout the process of building a hospital. It’s about working with our schemes right from the start, understanding their needs, and translating that into something we can deliver swiftly.”
While healthcare estates staff will generally properly consider the maintenance of healthcare buildings post-completion, Natalie Forrest conceded that the NHS hadn’t had had the opportunity to do this as well as it would like to. The NHP team was therefore putting considerable emphasis on ensuring that the new hospital buildings were ‘smart’, and can be maintained throughout their lifecycle, ‘in a very structured way’. Elaborating, she said: “This revolves strongly around the clinical standards, so begins with our clinical teams setting out the brief, working with the Royal Colleges and clinicians across the NHS to understand what the best looks like, and identifying how we create that environment so we can replicate it across all the schemes.” It was then about identifying how this came together in a kit of parts that could be procured, manufactured, and brought to site as quickly as possible,
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Key to the New Hospital Programme’s success, Natalie Forrest told the conference, was ‘the development and application of a common commercial and procurement strategy to achieve economies of scale and mitigate supply chain constraints’.
and about looking at the economies of scale of building so many hospitals simultaneously. “So,” Natalie Forrest said, “that’s using every opportunity we can through Modern Methods of Construction, and looking at how we integrate the logistics of this, and prepare for having many large hospitals being constructed simultaneously. We need to think about putting together a ‘Reference Design’, so we can showcase to all the organisations we’re working with the art of the possible.”
Hospital 2.0 is about the wellbeing of the people we are here to serve, enhancing patient safety, contributing to Net Zero, ensuring that we’re mindful of both the patient and staff experience and wellbeing, can add to the environment we’re working in, and are playing our part in the social value of having a hospital in our community
Natalie Forrest
An iterative approach The NHP speaker emphasised that Hospital 2.0, once fully deployed, would be ‘an iterative process taking in emerging technology’. The NHP team believes, however, that the initiative could see new hospitals created 30% faster than via ‘traditional methods’. Natalie Forrest showed a slide ‘mapping out’ what the NHP team sees happening around the design, business case, and approvals process, construction and commissioning, and where team members believe the key savings are achievable. She said that while some elements were aspects that those involved in hospital design and construction would have known about for years, there were some ‘really positive ways’ these things could be done concurrently, or ‘in swifter order’. A ‘real enabler’ for the steps required to set these organisations up for the future was ‘to really enhance the opportunities technology brings’. She explained: “We see that in the three components of fabric, footprint, and flow.” From a fabric perspective, this was about ensuring
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