CAPITAL EQUIPMENT SELECTION
Develop a robust equipment strategy from the outset
Giles Hartley, Equipment Project manager for the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust’s Hospitals of the Future Project – who has a wealth of experience in the procurement and management of medical and non-medical equipment for healthcare facilities – explains the critical importance of developing a robust equipment strategy from the outset when embarking on designing and delivering new such facilities, and particularly complex, large-scale hospital projects.
The Hospitals of the Future Project is a new landmark hospital development that sits at the forefront of the Government’s New Hospital Programme (NHP). My role is one of many that form part of the Trust’s Building the Leeds Way Programme (BtLW) Team, led by experienced Programme director, Mike Bacon.
A new ‘state-of-the-art hospital’ Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is one of England’s largest acute Trusts, and it is currently planning one of the most exciting and important developments for a generation. Its plan to build a new hospital will create a new home for Leeds Children’s Hospital, a new adults’ hospital, and one of the UK’s largest single site maternity centres, as well as being a catalyst for regeneration for Leeds city centre. A central part of the national New Hospital Programme, our scheme had a major boost in May 2023 when the Trust received confirmation from the Secretary of State for Health & Social Care that our plans were fully funded and could proceed. This was excellent news for our patients,
staff, and the wider Leeds economy, and, aligned with the Secretary of State’s announcement, we’re expecting the new facilities to be constructed by 2030. The site for the new hospitals provides
a fantastic opportunity for the very best designers and construction contractors to play their part in shaping the city’s landscape. It’s a unique site which is compact, sloping, and triangular, located in the heart of Leeds City Centre. The Trust’s experienced BtLW Programme Team, which is responsible for the delivery of the new hospital at the Trust, has worked with designers, contractors, stakeholders, and partners, to develop a robust, detailed set of design and buildability plans to ensure that the scheme can accelerate forwards into the next stage. We plan to deliver a building designed
to provide our patients with modern, individualised healthcare based on the most advanced treatments, technologies, innovation, and research, in state-of-the art facilities. It is an ambitious, long-term development that will change the way we think about hospital care, and will also
bring improvements in healthcare for patients across the West Yorkshire region.
The story so far The Trust has established a highly experienced delivery team that brings together design and build experience, hospital operational management experience, and the very best specialists from the private sector. The BtLW Programme Team, supported through strong partnerships and significant internal staff and external stakeholder engagement, has helped to shape and develop a strong vision and robust set of plans. This work has enabled the Trust to secure Outline Planning Consent (June 2020), secure approval to the outcome of public consultation (July 2020), and develop a robust set of design proposals that were highly commended in the Best Future Healthcare Category in the 2023 European Healthcare Design Awards. Further informing this work, we’ve also collaborated with the national New Hospital Programme Team since its establishment to ensure that our plans align with the vision for Hospital 2.0. The Trust has already delivered an award- winning (Highly Commended in the Health, Safety & Wellbeing Category at the 2022 Yorkshire Constructing Excellence Awards) set of complex enabling works, has a cleared construction site, and is ready to accelerate into the next stage of the national New Hospital Programme process. However, our plans don’t just include the design of the building itself. We have already been developing our Change Management, Operationalisation, Digital Workforce, and Net Zero Strategies alongside a robust Equipment Strategy that is itself aligned to our vision to create a digitally-enabled and Net Zero hospital. Equipment is an integral part of the
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust says the site for its new hospitals ‘provides a fantastic opportunity for the very best designers and construction contractors to play their part in shaping the city’s landscape’.
healthcare delivery process, and both influences, and is influenced by, design, build, and operational maintenance strategies. However, it is often a secondary
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