HEALTHCARE PLANNING SYSTEMS
accessed, and approved, ‘based on their clinical needs, functions, and benefits, to the wider healthcare ecosystem required to serve that population’. He said: “Only when this phase is completed and agreed, should design, procurement, and construction take place; in theory, this phase should not be contentious. There is a strong legacy and successful history of many successful hospital build programmes due to the extensive expertise available to deliver and build these facilities.”
Result of an inconsistent approach Failed or wasted healthcare investment was, he argued, ‘almost always associated with an inconsistent approach or poorly governed healthcare planning process, usually due to unrealistic political constraints relating to time, and capital spending, lack of healthcare planning expertise, or just simply by he who shouts the loudest getting what they want’. Paul Fenton noted here that the
information he and Pete Sellars were sharing originated in detailed work undertaken by IHEEM in partnership with academic colleagues at The Bartlett School of Architecture at UCL and the European Health Property Network (EuHPN) in 2021. “The principles of what we are discussing today are already being taken forward and supported by
Figure 2: Plan and design differently using Acuity as the ‘Currency’.
some hospitals in England,” he explained. “For example, London’s Moorfields Eye Hospital is implementing new pathways for patient diagnostics that will cut waiting times from hours to minutes, while the SameYou charity is working with UCLH Bartlett to offer a highly integrated neuro-rehabilitation service tailored to patients’ individual needs, drawing on high-tech, digitally-enabled programmes of movement, dance, and art, that will provide a step change in patient recovery.” A large district general hospital in the
North East of England, meanwhile, had already reorganised its staffing and infrastructure, and was exploring how best to move its diagnostics and imaging provision out of the main hospital into the high street to support integrated care in the community.
Ongoing commitment Although these were ‘just small examples’ of where new services are being taken forward using the principles of Acuity for healthcare planning, and starting to adopt
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