Speaking in a presentation at October’s Healthcare Estates 2013, senior representatives from a number of Principal Supply Chain Partners (PSCPs) within the ProCure21+ National Framework explained their ongoing work to develop designs for standardised and repeatable rooms.
Along with a range of associated standard components – from flooring to air-handling units – all intended to reduce NHS capital building costs in line with the Government Construction Strategy. HEJ editor, Jonathan Baillie, reports.
In April last year a ProCure21+ national seminar held in London revealed increasing interest in standardised components and repeatable design for use across the NHS. According to a ProCure21+ publication, Sharing best practice in NHS construction, published to mark 10 years of the Framework, with the Department of Health’s Quality, Innovation, Productivity and Prevention (QIPP) having ‘alerted many Trusts to the need to innovate, while simultaneously saving cost’, and the Government Construction Strategy setting out an imperative to achieve a cost reduction target of 14.1% by 2015, many NHS clients attending the April event were ‘highly enthusiastic’ about a ProCure21+ initiative whose goal is ‘to establish hospital room and component standardisation as a means of achieving significant cost reduction, and improve patient outcomes for capital schemes’. Accordingly, the Department of Health, and the Chief Executives of each of the ProCure21+ Principal Supply Chain Partners, agreed to deliver a ‘first wave’ of proposals by the end of 2013 – developing five room designs and 12 ‘standard components’ – the aim being for them to be shared across the NHS via the ProCure21+ ProjectShare and StandardShare web portals.
Cost reduction project update
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