HOSPITAL CATERING
or pieces of equipment that aren’t useful, and slot in the new equipment without any need for major works or lengthy installation time. We’ve installed a new Podule in a London hospital recently, which was constructed and operational in less than three days.
PKL supplied The Friarage Hospital in Northallerton, a district general hospital serving a rural population of 122,000 people, with a permanent modular kitchen.
trouble. In the fast-moving world of acute healthcare, this quality is especially welcome – hospitals are growing, changing, and adapting to new initiatives, pressures, or situations constantly. A modular solution can be moved if needed to accommodate new population centres or large-scale hospital redevelopments. ‘Modular’ may also not only mean large units outside; there is also the opportunity to create extra revenue and manage footfall to avoid congestion with small modular units, both internal and external.
Retail a route to revenue Retail-focused modular solutions for healthcare sites can create new revenue streams through concessions, and help your on-site caterers to serve more customers by putting small satellite sales bases where the customers are. For example, PKL’s ‘Food Cubes’ are an attractive and practical addition for any healthcare site – and a concession is a quick and easy way to create an extra revenue stream for your Trust. It helps visitors to your site by giving them more options for food and beverage, reduces footfall elsewhere, and can bring in guaranteed revenue through rents or licencing.
However modular does not just need to be an exterior solution. Many hospitals have spaces within their buildings that are currently underutilised, and could become revenue-generating. An option for making the most of these spaces could be PKL’s Podule concept. This clever retail solution is a modular counter system within a purpose-built framework that allows catering managers to keep up with street food trends easily. It allows them to change pieces of equipment quickly and easily without major construction works or set-up costs.
Perfect for quiet areas
Podules are perfect for quiet areas in restaurants, reception areas, and larger atriums. So, if your caterer wants to change their offer, they take out the piece
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A permanent modular kitchen in place at Beccles Hospital.
Working with ‘re-gen’ technologies If your hospital is using a ‘re-gen’ service for its main catering support, then modular solutions can even help streamline and create efficiencies, by creating a holding area for deliveries before they are taken to wards. A modular kitchen with a classic re-gen set-up with banks of ‘combi ’ovens and efficient chilling technology is simple to install, and a dedicated modular building outside can create efficiencies for delivery, production, and distribution to ward level. Such a kitchen can also provide a specialist base for creating meals for those with special dietary requirements. Hospital re-gen solutions often face a challenge responding to urgent individual nutritional needs, but specialist on-site staff can work with the medical professionals to ensure that the correct nutrition is being provided for all patients, no matter what the individual needs. This boosts opportunities for individual care that surpass old models, while remaining cost-effective.
Conclusions
The challenges faced by modern healthcare estates and facilities managers are complex and difficult to overcome. When food production is an issue, or access to adequate catering facilities is becoming a problem, a modular solution can be the quickest, most convenient, and most cost-effective solution. In fact, modular kitchens and concessions can help health estates teams reconsider their catering options and boost incomes, by putting their catering services where they are needed, not just where they have traditionally been.
Temporary modular kitchens reduce the disruption hospitals face from major refurbishments, and allow those refurbishments to be finished more quickly, with fewer health and safety concerns. Permanent modular solutions,
meanwhile, help healthcare estates personnel to improve the utilisation of their space, and reduce both visitor congestion and fire risk.
The latest generation of modular buildings create an opportunity to re-think catering on site, and create a better experience for customers and staff alike.
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The NHS SBS ModularBuildings
Framework n NHS SBS provides finance, employment, and procurement services, which help NHS organisations improve service quality and save time and money through operational efficiencies. To date, the organisation has saved the NHS £400 million, and is on course to deliver total savings of £1 billion by 2020.
n In addition to the NHS, all public sector organisations are eligible to use its procurement frameworks.
n The NHS SBS Modular Buildings Framework was developed to provide a simple and OJEU (Official Journal of the European Union)- compliant route to market for public sector bodies.
n Under certain circumstances – for example when a supplier clearly offers the most economically advantageous solution, or when a project is very urgent or has similarities to a previous project the supplier has worked on – organisations can choose to make direct awards.
n Organisations accessing NHS SBS frameworks can also run mini- competitions – through which a number of appropriate suppliers tender for the work – in order to appoint a supplier.
n There are currently 21 suppliers on the Modular Buildings Framework. All suppliers meet specific quality and price criteria, and have passed stringent checks on their financial status, quality standards, health and safety policies, and environmental credentials.
n The Framework includes specific lots for healthcare, education, catering, and bespoke solutions, and is divided to cover hire projects and purchases, or leases below and above £1 million.
n Only suppliers with full turnkey capabilities are awarded, meaning there is no need for further sub- contracting of work.
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