TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT WSP Webinar and resources. • Establishing workforce constraints.
• Standardised design – allowed easy replication of facilities at scale and pace.
• Pandemic-resilient design. Considering how offsite delivery can help
in rapidly responding to estates challenges, Patrick spoke about the Rosalind Franklin COVID Megalab. He specifically addressed how collaborative working helped to transform an industrial building in Leamington Spa into one of the world’s largest coronavirus diagnostic testing facilities in record time. WSP led the engineering design and helped compress the facility’s NEC4 programme from a typical 2.5 years to under 12 months, using offsite construction to develop innovative design solutions to support fast-track delivery.
Jenni Kirby, a Director in WSP’s Strategic
Growth team, spoke about tips on formulating a winter estates strategy. With a focus on service delivery, she highlighted the importance of building on lessons learned, while taking a more forward-looking approach, prioritising action and mitigation for high-risk estates failures and backlog. Recognising that having a clear strategic plan in turn gives Trusts and Boards the ability to respond to emergencies effectively and efficiently, she discussed WSP’s process to support Trusts and Boards when formulating a winter estates strategy (see Figure 1).
COVID surge capacity Jodie Orme, from WSP’s Building Services team,
gave her reflections on COVID surge capacity, through her experience of the Emergency Department refurbishment at Royal Free Hospital. Other case studies and best practices shared by the team demonstrating WSP’s experience of rapid mobilisation and temporary clinical capacity options evaluation included:
• Elective Surgical Centre, planning support for Southend Hospital.
• Livingstone Hospital CDC – multidisciplinary healthcare planning, M&E,
C&S, and transport. • Royal Free Hospital – ED refurbishment.
• Hereford County Hospital – traditional to modular.
• Alternative structural solutions for rapid offsite delivery.
How the webinar helps in
contingency planning In addition to sharing key lessons learned and areas of best practice across the spectrum of healthcare planning and infrastructure delivery, the webinar provided a platform for NHS Trusts, NHS Boards, and the healthcare sector more broadly, to ask some key questions on the subject, some of which included:
• Outside of winter pressures, how do Trusts and ICBs utilise the additional surge capacity,
particularly when there is an associated on- cost to run the facility throughout the rest of the year?
• Understanding some of the other localised clinical need may provide increased space
for provider collaboratives, clinical skills development, and further education – some of which should technically be more easily facilitated through the introduction of a more systemised approach to healthcare and community need via ICBs. How do we build professional system level memory as experts within the NHS retire?
This is one of the strategic pillars for IHEEM West Midlands in 2024. On the one hand digitisation through, for example, the digitised Premises Assurance Model can provide greater assurance that critical estates information is centralised into one version of the truth. On the other, it is vitally important that the Apprenticeship Levy is utilised where possible, and that sharing expertise between the public and private sectors is forged from the grassroots Next Gen level. Nurturing a culture of collaboration will build trust and resilience in the healthcare sector more widely.
This type of practical, direct, focused engagement with NHS Trusts and NHS Boards is part of WSP’s wider training/social value programme, from which NHS Trusts, Boards, ICBs, and wider NHS bodies can benefit. Feedback received from Trust attendees showed that the webinar was useful and met expectations. If you would like to watch a recording of the webinar, you can access it here:
https://vimeo.com/891455806 The accompanying slide deck can be viewed at:
https://tinyurl.com/tf7372tt
Anisha Mayor, WSP UK Head of Healthcare May 2024 Health Estate Journal 13 Anisha Mayor
Anisha Mayor is the UK Head of Healthcare at WSP, and brings with her over 20 years’ experience within government healthcare infrastructure investment, including PPP/PFI projects. Most recently she has worked within the NHS, and more specifically within the NHP, as the Redevelopment Project Director, leading the redevelopment of St Mary’s Hospital for Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. She is a Fellow of IHEEM, and part of the Strategic Estates Management Advisory Platform management group. In addition, she chairs the New London Architecture Healthcare Expert Panel, and in 2023 she launched the Next Gen Healthcare Networking Forum in collaboration with Turner & Townsend. Having been at the coalface of
committing to key NHS ambitions, Anisha understands some of the opportunities, challenges, and interdependencies, of balancing capital and revenue spend, dealing with redevelopment, as well as contingency planning and backlog maintenance. She has a keen interest in how patient-centric design, embedding MMC, product standardisation, decarbonisation, and digital transformation, can help with some of the daily infrastructure and operational issues faced by NHS Trusts and Boards.
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