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HEALTH SECTOR NEWS ERIC shows rises in estate and backlog costs
In 2020/2021 the total cost of running the NHS estate in England was £10.2 billion – a 4.8 per cent increase on 2019/20, with total energy usage from all sources across the estate 11.4 billion kWh, 1.6 per cent up on the previous year. According to the latest ERIC (Estates Returns Information Collection) data from all English NHS Trusts – released on 14 October, eradicating backlog at NHS hospitals across England would now cost £9.2 billion, up 2.2 per cent on the previous year, while the total cost for cleaning services in 2020/21 – at £1.1 billion – was 5 per cent higher. As part of the analysis of the 2020/21 ERIC data, NHS Digital undertook ‘an enhanced data quality assurance exercise’ in conjunction with NHS England/Improvement, under which 62 NHS Trusts across England were selected to be part of a BLM (Backlog Maintenance) audit and validation
the 1960s to the 1980s over which safety concerns have been raised, were also included.
Asked if their backlog values had been signed off by their Trust Board, just 32 per cent of the participating Trusts said ‘yes’, 48 per cent answered ‘no’, and 20 per cent gave no response. In answer to the question, “Are your ‘high’ and ‘significant’ risks reflected on the Trust’s Risk Register?”, 45 per cent answered ‘yes’, 27 per cent ‘No’, and 28 per cent gave no response.
exercise; those chosen included those with the highest BLM by value, those with the largest backlog maintenance increases in the year, and those with no change in their figure compared with 2019/2020. Other Trusts known to have buildings incorporating Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete, or RAAC – a lightweight ‘bubbly’ form of concrete used widely in many public buildings from
An IHEEM West Midlands Branch online seminar on 14 October saw Jo Dolby, National lead for Capital and Commercial at NHSE/I (pictured), Steve Lawley, NHSI/E’s Deputy National lead for Capital and Commercial, Chetan Tailor, Principal analyst at NHSE/I, and Lisa Sculpher, Strategic Estates lead, NHSE/I, North West, discuss the latest ERIC data and the BLM audit and valuation initiative.
Minor Injury Units converted toUrgent Treatment Centres Three Kent hospitals have received
Three new staff for Mott MacDonald team Engineering, management, and
development consultancy, Mott MacDonald, has made three new appointments to its UK healthcare team – Steven Bentley as Healthcare technical lead, Alison Ryan as deputy Healthcare technical lead, and Andy Witchell as Strategy and Development lead for Health.
Steven Bentley has over 30 years’ engineering design consultancy experience as a Chartered Engineer and Chartered Project Manager. He has recently led the engineering design of one of Denmark’s new ‘super-hospitals’, at Hillerod in North Zealand. His other key healthcare projects include the Isle of Man Hospital, Bishop Auckland Hospital, and Norfolk and Norwich Hospital. His remit at Mott MacDonald will include technical assessments, assistance on delivery, peer review at key design gateways, thought leadership, development of technical delivery models, and training and competency assessments for colleagues. Alison Ryan has over 20 years’
experience in hospital design and project management, and delivery of complex projects in the UK, and has recently worked on the technical assurance review of the eight ‘front- runners’ in the New Hospital Programme, and a further six ‘agile business’ cases for NHSE/I. She is also President Elect of (IHEEM) for 2022-2024, the first female appointed to this role. At Mott MacDonald she will support the healthcare sector in the delivery of major technical advisory and multidisciplinary service commissions – particularly digital transformation and the Net Zero carbon aspects of healthcare buildings. Andy Witchell has over 30 years’ healthcare sector experience, and joins from ENGIE, where he was Strategy and Development director for public sector across energy and complex service solutions. He was responsible for direction of travel, growth, and leadership, in a business that doubled in size to include nearly 50 hospitals and 300 schools, central government contracts, and defence.
significant upgrades worth hundreds of thousands of pounds to convert their Minor Injury Units (MIUs) into Urgent Treatment Centres (UTCs) to provide additional medical space and modern facilities with support from property and construction specialist, Ingleton Wood. Improvements to ventilation, new lighting, flooring, and upgraded waiting areas with disabled access across all the sites, were made to
the MIUs at Victoria Memorial Hospital in Deal, Royal Victoria Hospital in Folkestone, and Sevenoaks Hospital, all managed by Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust (KCHFT). In addition to the UTC upgrade, a new therapy kitchen has been installed on the inpatient ward at Sevenoaks Hospital to allow elderly and vulnerable patients to re-adapt to home life before leaving the wards following treatment. Ingleton Wood provided multi- disciplinary services, including producing feasibility reports for all three sites to determine the work scope, and ensure that all requirements from the initial brief could be addressed within budget.
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