FUTURE HOSPITALS
Josie Rudman and the NHP
Josie Rudman is the New Hospital Programme’s Transformation director and Chief Nurse, ‘working to define and develop operational, digital, clinical, and workforce standards and policies to ensure that new hospitals are able to deliver transformational care’.
The national New Hospital Programme is working with the construction sector and individual NHS Trusts to deliver a programme of new development at 48 sites across England by 2030.
How a new Leicester Royal Infirmary (top) and Glenfield Hospital, Leicester might look; these are again part of Cohort Three of the NHP.
will be modular bedheads, and even standardised patient entertainment systems through which patients can order their food and get messages about their daily agenda – who they are seeing and for what purpose.
An evolving template Our approach, which we have called Hospital 2.0, is a template. It will evolve as we progress, and my Transformation team will be on hand to help, but we will need a clear understanding of why things need to change, based on good reason and clear evidence. We must also invest in opening new hospitals properly, and the need for expert support from the market will increase as the pace of new hospital builds increases. We’re not just talking about
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The scale of the New Hospital Programme will call on the skills and expertise of companies of all sizes, across a broad range of sectors
equipment, but also getting the buildings up and running effectively. Moving care from existing buildings to
new ones requires much detailed planning. If you ramp down a service in one building, and can’t ramp it up in the new one at the same pace, patients won’t get seen, and treatments could be cancelled. The NHS can’t afford any productivity losses; it is stretched as it is, and we’re here to ease that burden, not to add to it. Operational readiness teams need to be
involved in the new hospital build at least 18 months before construction ends. How new hospitals are opened will be a crucial part of the process. This is complex, and requires real organisational skill. Opening hospitals safely involves looking at the process not only from a clinical point of view, but also facilities management and digital commissioning, preparing the workforce, and transforming models of care in readiness for the new environment. Our challenge in the transformation process is to work with NHS hospital Trusts and the market to create a clear, evidence-based vision for care in the future, and then deliver on it to make the most of this once-in-a- generation opportunity. The scale of the New Hospital
Programme will call on the skills and
Josie Rudman’s team is playing a key role – in activities ranging from business cases, design, and construction, through to operational readiness and handover – of the New Hospital Programme’s schemes. Transformation directorate teams are supporting schemes to: n Design hospitals that meet future supply and demand through demand and activity modelling.
n Research and evaluate innovative approaches to service delivery.
n Ensure operational readiness to open.
Josie Rudman was previously Chief Nurse and director of Infection Prevention and Control at Royal Papworth Hospital, which was rebuilt on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus, and was completed and opened in 2019 with 310 beds (mostly in single en-suite rooms) for heart and lung patients.
expertise of companies of all sizes, across a broad range of sectors. Suppliers can register their interest by completing the Supply Market Survey, at: https://www.
smartsurvey.co.uk/s/NHP-PIN/ Alternatively, if you would like to
know more about the supply chain or future market engagement activity, please email the Supplier Markets Team at
nhp.suppliers@
nhs.net
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