THE NEW HOSPITAL PROGRAMME
The NHP team is putting together a Reference Design, ‘to showcase to all the organisations we’re working with the art of the possible’.
the sector was putting together ‘smart’ buildings, with the capability to support Net Zero carbon, and control energy consumption, potentially ‘involving technology we have yet to see and don’t understand, so that these buildings are set for the future’. The speaker added: “It’s about the footprint of the technology, and making sure it connects across the hospital facilities to allow a better patient experience, and enhance the care staff are giving. We all know that ‘workforce’ is both our biggest challenge, and our greatest gift in the NHS, and we need to provide staff with the enhanced capabilities that digital solutions will provide.”
Latest clinical standards being worked on Given the acknowledgment that technology, information flow, and data around patient care, will improve outcomes, it was, she said, the NHP team and the sector’s responsibility to ensure that these new buildings had all of that capability. Here, Natalie Forrest said she would outline some of the key clinical standards the team has been working on, and which it believes will have the biggest impact. She said: “One is 100% single rooms; there are some obvious advantages. Emerging from a global pandemic, we saw the impact – from
One of the key goals of Hospital 2.0 is ‘to facilitate all the building blocks the NHS needs to improve clinical outcomes, and to have the right space, adjacencies, and digital solutions, to maximise staff’s potential at work every day’.
an infection control perspective – of not being able to separate patients, and we have a duty to address this. We know we want to be able to promote the privacy and dignity of all our patients. This is the ideal way to do that, and to enhance their ability to engage with their families, without disturbing others, on a 24-hour basis. We also want to be able to ensure that ‘available’ beds are truly available, and to ensure better flow through our capacity in the hospitals.” The NHP team was also ‘doing a huge amount of work on adjacencies’. Looking at current hospital layouts,
Natalie Forrest explained that the NHP team could see ‘a massive impact’ from not having services in the right place and co-located. This was an issue that clinicians pointed out ‘very easily’, emphasising the impact not only on the hours they spend moving patients around, but also on patient safety. Nearing the end of her presentation, the speaker noted that among the NHP schemes were a number of schemes where hospital buildings would be ‘stripped back the to the bare bones’ and refurbished. She said: “It’s easy to get excited about a new building, but if we want to be sustainable, and offer out all of the learning across the NHS, it’s important that we set some standards for refurbishment as well. Hospital 2.0 thus
includes those.” Pointing to a slide, Natalie Forrest said: “You can see that Hospital 2.0 isn’t just about design; it’s also about our vision for equipping these buildings, and in particular, understanding the Workforce Strategy. If we set out 100% single rooms and different adjacencies to what people are used to, we need to think very carefully about the impact on the workforce. Equally, if we set out new digital technologies, it’s important that we’ve taken the staff into account. We don’t want to add to the cognitive load on NHS staff in the NHS; we want to enhance things. Finally,” she said, “we are very keen to hear from the industries represented here today about how we can do this better, what we should be standardising, and how we bring things together.” With this, Natalie Forrest thanked the audience for listening, and handed back to Paul Fenton to introduce Suzanne MacCormick, who explained to the audience that she would be speaking about ‘Building for excellent outcomes’. (See separate report, pages 31-36.)
Saurabh Bhandari stressed that Hospital 2.0 would be an ‘iterative’ and evolving model for new hospital design.
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Getting suppliers fully ‘on board’ One of the fundamentals for success in the programme to build the 40 new hospitals across England will be engaging suppliers fully, and on 9 November the New Hospital Programme team held an ‘Autumn Market Briefing Update’ designed to do just that in London. Here many of the senior personnel within the team – including Natalie Forrest, Chief Programme Officer, Morag Stuart, and Programme Director, Saurabh Bhandari, spoke. The audience was a mix of representatives from contractors, manufacturers, and clinical service providers, keen both to hear about progress to date, and the key delivery models for the 40 hospitals the Department of Health & Social Care says remain on track to be completed by 2030, and the commercial opportunities across the associated supply chain. There was also the opportunity to hear from speakers about some of the different methods and ways the NHP team believes hospital care may be delivered in future – particularly
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