SUPPLY CHAIN
PAUL MARTIN – BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER; ANDREW PAPWORTH – NATIONAL CONTRACTS MANAGER; GRAEME TUCKER – SALES DIRECTOR, LEGRAND UK & IRELAND
Supplychain simplified in healthcare building
Advancements in technology and legislation, as well as tightening budgets, put further pressure on healthcare facility stakeholders to ensure buildings are safe and meet user needs. Paul Martin, business development manager – cable management, Andrew Papworth, national contracts manager – CP Electronics, and Graeme Tucker, sales director – Power Control, all from Legrand UK & Ireland, explore the requirements and regulations healthcare facilities must meet for lighting control, critical power, and fire safety, and the supply chain’s role in this.
The National Health Service (NHS) is a vast organisation, with 215 trusts in England alone – including 10 ambulance trusts. Tightening budgets are placing the service under pressure, especially at a time of soaring demand. According to the British Medical Association, the total capital spending envelope funding the NHS is set to receive will be held flat in cash terms.1
In real terms, funding will fall
by 1.2 per cent, placing the system under further strain on everything from patient outcomes to infrastructure and maintenance spending.
The service must continue to evolve to user needs and rising demand; however, these cuts put trusts under additional pressure to create environments that operate smoothly and effectively, while encouraging well-being and recovery. These challenging circumstances suggest working closely with suppliers that offer extensive product portfolios can make it easier to ensure building performance and occupant safety. The high number of vulnerable or critically ill people occupying healthcare estates puts added pressure on facility
teams looking to maximise evacuation times and ensure escape routes are clear and without risk of premature cable collapse. Shrinking budgets will make this more difficult without cost-effective solutions. Strained finances will also affect efforts
to ensure energy efficient estates. With energy prices remaining volatile, reducing power consumption has become a priority for facilities teams. However, without adequate forward planning, realising savings may be difficult. Hospitals could end up in a vicious circle of needing to lower expensive energy usage but lacking the budget to act. The same applies to healthcare estate
Paul Martin Andrew Papworth Graeme Tucker
•Paul Martin is business development manager – cable management, Legrand UK & Ireland. With over 30 years of expertise in cable management, Paul is vastly experienced in ensuring building stakeholders maintain compliance with fire regulations and meet the needs of ever-expanding healthcare IT infrastructure. His combined knowledge of cable management and passive fire protection means he is uniquely placed to suggest solutions during the design phase that allow healthcare estates to work flexibly for occupants throughout their lifetimes. •Andrew Papworth is national contracts manager – CP Electronics, Legrand UK & Ireland. Andrew has worked in CP Electronics, a brand of Legrand, for almost a decade, having first entered the electrical industry in 1991. He works closely with healthcare estate stakeholders to ensure energy efficient lighting controls and systems in the hospital environment that also encourage quicker recovery and improved wellbeing. •Graeme Tucker is sales director – Power Control, Legrand UK & Ireland. In his capacity as sales director, Graeme is crucial to the specification of backup power solutions for healthcare systems. He is extremely knowledgeable of all relevant industry standards including HTM 06-01 (Healthcare Safety Memorandum), BS 7671, BS 6290-4, IEC 60601, and BS EN 50171, and how they apply to equipment in critical applications and environments including the operating theatre.
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sustainability plans, where dwindling resources could make compliance with green legislation and requirements more difficult. For example, with structures built under the New Hospital Programme expected to be sustainable at minimum, existing estates may soon find themselves under pressure to adopt further sustainability measures.2 But even with a proactive approach that prioritises forward planning to address these issues, hospital stakeholders do not have a crystal ball. Uncertainty and inefficiency must be addressed wherever possible, and simplifying component and solution selection processes can help stakeholders better react when the unexpected occurs. In an increasingly challenging healthcare landscape, doing so could provide product quality guarantees that may be otherwise lacking.
Declining bandwidth, important decisions If facilities management can be likened to spinning plates, then keeping more crockery aloft comes with inevitable consequences. However, pressing and
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