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the automotive and aviation sectors. Researchers polled workers to establish the extent to which introducing new design, construction and operations approaches across the public sector could improve productivity.
And they found that four in 10 public sector workers felt they currently lose more than two hours a week to unproductive workplaces; and if the UK’s 237,000 adults’ nurses in acute, elderly and general care were to work in new productivity-enhancing hospitals they would claw back a total of 25 million hours of time every year. This equates to adding 13,500 full-time nurses to the NHS workforce. In education, if the UK’s 545,000 teachers were to work in productivity- enhancing schools they would reclaim almost 50 million hours of working time each year.
And prison officers would reclaim a total of 2.3 million extra hours of working time a year.
Unlocking NHS cash through ‘technology revolution’
How the next generation of construction could unlock huge productivity gains for the NHS
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ew analysis has found that the NHS could be boosted by the equivalent of 13,500 new nurses
if there was a ‘construction revolution’ to enhance productivity in the UK’s hospitals.
Nurses, teachers and prison officers would all reap rewards from the introduction of the next generation of construction technology and processes, according to the analysis by former Bank of England economist, Steve Hughes, commissioned by Mace Group. The report argues that, beyond significant onsite productivity increases and cheaper, more-sustainable construction; the adoption of innovative engagement and production approaches to the design and
construction of buildings could deliver a revolution in the delivery of public services.
By enabling more user-centric design and earlier supply chain engagement and product solutions; hospitals, schools and offices could be built in a way that improves productivity and delivers better outcomes for society.
Getting ready To support this; the report calls for faster adoption of new technology and processes across the sector; and outlines a proposed model for product development that could be introduced to enable that to happen, based on the ‘Technology Readiness Levels’ originally introduced by NASA and adopted by
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New models The report recommends that the Government implements four measures to bring about a construction revolution in the public sector. These include creating construction, engineering and manufacturing enterprise zones across the UK and overhauling the funding model for innovation in UK construction.
Mark Reynolds, Mace’s chief executive, said: “The next generation of construction technology and processes will change how we build hospitals, schools, offices and other parts of the build environment in the UK – and in turn that will mean doctors and nurses have more time to treat patients and teachers have more time focus on educating our children. “In order to make that a reality, we need a new mindset about innovation and product development in construction. “We need to try to understand our end users more, and work to deliver our projects in a way that respond to their needs – and to do that we need to change how we design, manufacture and assemble our buildings.”
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