HEALTHCARE ESTATES
Working as a collaborative partner
McAvoy says that it works as ‘a collaborative partner’ to the healthcare sector, delivering ‘patient and service-focused’ modular building solutions to help address the rising demand for healthcare. It said: “Our offering ranges from
temporary modular buildings to bespoke permanent facilities. We offer a full turnkey service – from concept to completion, and have a proven track record of delivering facilities that alleviate the pressure on acute services, such as full clinical (HTM/HBN-compliant) or ancillary spaces. “The health sector is facing
unprecedented challenges, making it vital that spending on new-builds, extensions, and temporary facilities, is made to work harder and smarter than ever before. We offer a highly flexible financing option to respond to the increasingly constrained capital budgets across the NHS.”
Embracing digital health solutions
‘Trusted UK provider’ of advanced nurse call solutions, Wandsworth Healthcare, is co-sponsoring the VIP Networking Area jointly with DNV Imatis, a leading Scandinavian digital healthcare solutions provider with whom it recently announced a collaboration. Wandsworth Healthcare will also be co-sponsoring the Software & Smart Hospitals Theatre, new for 2024. VIP delegates can meet with experts from both businesses. Wandsworth said: “The two companies’ combined expertise means they are ideally placed to help Trusts embrace the latest digital health solutions, and maintain a comprehensive, real-time overview of their operations ‘24/7/365’.” Wandsworth Healthcare and DNV Imatis will highlight the ‘four
core solutions’ initially available through the collaboration: an electronic bed capacity management system (eBCMS); task management; alarm management, and patient engagement.
Show visitors can also attend two speaker sessions delivered by experts from Wandsworth Healthcare and DNV Imatis. Titled ‘Improving staff and patient experience through better task management’, the presentation will explore task management for support services, and how improving task management can ‘transform the patient experience, staff wellbeing, and overall efficiency’. The sessions take place in the Software & Smart Hospital Theatre from 3.00-3.25 pm on Day 1, and from 11.30-11.55 am on Day 2.
Healthcare integral to identity
DAY Architectural describes itself as ‘an award-winning, diverse, proactive, forward-thinking, innovative, and collaborative’ architectural practice, which is now entirely 100% employee- owned. A nationally recognised architectural
practice, the firm specialises in the design and delivery of healthcare architecture throughout the UK. It said: “Our commitment to healthcare design is integral to our identity, and our expertise spans across a variety of project scales and complexities, collaborating with multiple NHS Trusts.” Pictured is Greater Manchester Major
Trauma Hospital (GMMTH) – which DAY Architectural has designed – one of the first eight New Hospital Programme projects commissioned by Central Government. Spanning six floors, the 10,100 m2
development
includes several ‘firsts’ for the UK. These include a new level-access helipad that provides direct, unobstructed entry into the hospital, reducing transfer times from 20 minutes to 90 seconds, and the new RAPTOR Polytrauma Hybrid Theatre, which enables multiple trauma procedures to be undertaken in one location. The £67 m facility is expected to treat thousands of critical patients across the Greater Manchester region each year.
Utilising AI to get instant answers to your technical challenges decision-makers can also leverage it to
innex.ai is an AI-powered platform that empowers Estates and Facilities staff to access the latest guidance, connect with peers, learn from best practices, and discover emerging topics – all in one place.
The software is a result of four years of research on knowledge- sharing among NHS Trusts, and was developed with AI specialists at the University of Cambridge. A study at the University of Cambridge revealed that healthcare facility design, construction, management, and maintenance professionals spend an average of 11
hours weekly searching for guidance and best practices – often without success.
innex.ai, developed in collaboration with IHEEM, and piloted at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, reportedly saves staff up to four hours a week with fast and reliable access to information.
innex.ai explained: “The platform has an intuitive chatbot interface that provides evidence-based answers and links to the most relevant documents from various repositories. It further connects users with peers facing similar challenges, fostering collaborative problem-solving. Policy and
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gain actionable insights into frontline issues and emerging topics across domains, enabling timely responses with updated guidance or training.”
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