IHEEM HEALTHCARE ESTATES 2021 AWARDS
Helping to overcome Trusts’ challenges
“We’re helping them overcome these challenges through our involvement in new-builds and refurbishment schemes that will replace or improve existing buildings. Healthcare has been a key sector focus for us since 2020. That year we developed an embodied carbon assessment toolkit that calculates the carbon in our principal construction materials, which has been embedded into our REVIT models, presenting the carbon hotspots visually. This allows our engineers to make informed decisions on where further engineering effort can be implemented to enhance carbon reduction.”
Product Innovation
Here, Andy Powell told the audience: “ Our final award category tonight is for Product Innovation of the Year, sponsored by Healthcare Estates.” The seven shortlisted organisations /entries were : n Angel Guard. n Acoustic Collection. n Oxygen Management, Barnsley Facilities Services.
n MGPS 1000. n Optima 24. n SHJ Medical Gas Specialists. n DAQS DM100/70 Air Handling Unit.
Andy Powell said that with this ‘fiercely fought category’ resulting in one of the toughest tasks for the judges, they had awarded two Highly Commendeds – to MGPS1000 – for ‘the world’s only gas analyser to perform all HTM 02-01 piped medical gas testing in one compact instrument’, and SHJ Medical Gas Specialists – for its FLO2 oxygen flow rate and line pressure monitoring and alerting product, ‘believed to be the first of its kind’, and created in response to a customer request during the pandemic. Jay Stacy, head of Sales for Healthcare Estates, announced that the winner was ‘Oxygen Management’, Barnsley Facilities
Curtins, the winner of the 2021 Consultancy of the Year Award, says it is working on ‘some of the UK’s most complex healthcare schemes’, including the £50 million Midland Metropolitan Hospital, and two of the ‘front-running’ six projects in the Health Infrastructure Programme.
Services. The judges said: “A real game- changer on O2 to other Trusts.”
monitoring, available free
Trust at highest oxygen supply risk The winning entry said: “NHSE/I identified Barnsley Hospital as the highest risk Trust for potential to run out of oxygen during the pandemic. Typical oxygen usage at the Trust was 450 L/min pre-pandemic, increasing to 1,400 L/min (against a maximum capacity of 1,700 litres) during its height. To provide effective patient care and assure oxygen supply, a multidisciplinary team created an in- house live system that integrated clinical and building management systems to enable patient-by-patient monitoring of oxygen usage. Prior to this project, the existing telemetry system was sufficient for ‘business as usual’ levels of activity only, with a 24-hour lag on oxygen usage data.
Changes made across the system included: n New dashboard reports created by the IT team, pulling together cross-system data in a simplified way ‘to facilitate
teams making accurate and timely data- based decisions’.
n The ‘Estates’ team installed pressure and live monitors to track oxygen supplies and ‘ensure that one area wasn’t starved of oxygen by supplying another’.
n Regular inspection regimes increased, with a switch to secondary systems to manage de-icing and maintain high oxygen supply volumes.
n The PMO team tracked data and systems 24/7 at ‘go live’, ensuring accuracy.
n ‘Procurement’ sourced ‘oxygen-efficient’ medical devices to allow the Trust to support the maximum number of patients possible, and provide a full inventory of high- and low-flow equipment.
n Clinicians, with the Ethics Committee, revised oxygen standard operating procedures to account for new data from the system.
Multidisciplinary team approach The entry added: “The key was Barnsley’s approach in adopting a multidisciplinary team to create the solution, that may otherwise have been led in silos. The wholesale view of oxygen enabled clinicians to prescribe the appropriate treatment for patients, have increased confidence in the system, and understand the impact of the prescribed treatment on the hospital as a whole. The project has received national recognition for exemplary work from NHSE/I. Barnsley Hospital has shared all the data with other Trusts, enabling those that were at different stages in the pandemic to quickly enact changes.”
The winner of the Product Innovation of the Year Award was ‘Oxygen Management’, by Barnsley Facilities Services. The judges said: “A real game- changer on O2
monitoring, available free to other Trusts.” 50 Health Estate Journal November 2021
Following the presentation of this last award, Andy Powell congratulated all the winners and shortlisted entrants, and re- thanked the judges, sponsors, the award entrants, and all who had watched the awards presentation, both in person and remotely.
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