STEPHEN BARTLETT – CEO, INVIGILATIS, UK VENTILATION
Innovative practices in healthcare ventilation
When supported with a smart logbook, authorised ventilation personnel can play a key role in informing their healthcare trust’s Ventilation Safety Group (VSG) in ensuring practical implementation and operation of safety policy and procedures. Stephen Bartlett, CEO of Invigilatis Ltd and developer of smart logbook Seeker Ventilation, looks at how updated NHS guidance can be a catalyst for continuous operational improvements and service transformation.
With the UK healthcare system under increasing pressure, it is essential that the availability of scarce resources, such as operating theatres, is optimised. Traditionally, experienced professionals
have provided expert guidance to ensure assets and service capacity are adequate to support demands. However, with rapidly advancing technology, and as ever more data becomes available, innovative systems-based processes will improve the management of resource availability. NHS Health Technical Memorandum
03-01 Specialised ventilation for healthcare premises provides an excellent platform to transform workflows and ensure the optimum availability of ventilation systems when coupled with systems thinking and smart logbooks.
Ventilation Data Data is essential for effective management. There must be sufficient date available,
and it must be suitably structured so that it can be processed effectively. Once analysed, the resulting information must be presented clearly so users have good visibility of actionable insights and can deliver effectively.
HTM General Guidance As stated by the NHS,1
the Healthcare
Technical Memoranda establish a clear framework for the collection and use of data:
Health Technical Memoranda (HTMs) give comprehensive advice and guidance on the design, installation and operation of specialised building and engineering technology used in the delivery of healthcare.
The focus of Health Technical Memorandum guidance remains on healthcare-specific elements of standards, policies and up-to-date established best practice. They are applicable to new and
By applying analytical rules consistently, the extensive data from a series of annual verifications can then be presented clearly, so that users have meaningful information
Stephen Bartlett is an information professional with considerable experience of resource planning, risk management, and healthcare estates. Having
qualified as a chartered accountant, and after a spell as finance director of a leading database publisher, Stephen then worked with central government to establish some of the initial Internet infrastructure needed for departments to begin their shift from
paper. With a strong focus on knowledge management, this work included establishing taxonomies and real time services which provided immediate access to essential
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existing sites, and are for use at various stages during the whole building lifecycle. Healthcare providers have a duty of care to ensure that appropriate governance arrangements are in place and are managed effectively. The Health Technical Memorandum series provides best practice engineering standards and policy to enable management of this duty of care.
HTM 00 and risk HTM 00 Polices and principles of healthcare engineering explains the need to minimise risk and highlights the need to establish principles and procedures which reflect the important role that engineering policies and principles, as implemented by suitably qualified professional and technical staff, have in support of direct patient care.2
HTM 03-01 and logbooks HTM 03-01 Specialised ventilation for healthcare buildings is the most recently updated HTM. Section 13 of Part A details the different types of information required to design, install, verify, and maintain ventilation systems in accordance with the requirement under the Building Regulations. It states that is essential to provide documentary evidence of the
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information. Subsequently, Stephen was deputy chairman of a leading resource scheduling software provider before joining Invigilatis as CEO and leading its evolution into a provider of compliance solutions for healthcare and complex healthcare estates. He has achieved considerable benefits for clients by ensuring that compliance solutions enable compliance performance achievements to be viewed easily, and the underlying non-compliances to be understood. Invigilatis’ solutions empower managers while supporting collaborative management processes, and the most successful solution resulted in a 90 per cent reduction in risk.
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