The executive director and strategic planning lead at Community Health Partnerships shares his thoughts on the healthcare estate’s role ‘as a facilitator for much-needed change’.
The NHS faces unprecedented challenges to meet the healthcare needs of the population against a backdrop of austerity. To meet those challenges we need to do things differently. This is the view of Antek Lejk, executive director and strategic estate planning lead at Community Health Partnerships, who here shares his thoughts about the healthcare estate’s role as a facilitator for much-needed change.
There is an increasingly urgent requirement to think and do things differently across the NHS, driven by financial pressures and the changing health needs of a shifting population. At Community Health Partnerships (CHP) we know that a locally-focused, strategic approach to the planning, management, and future development of the health and community estate holds the key to meeting those challenges head on. It is a view based on extensive experience, on seeing things work, and on knowing the appetite that exists to make it happen.
It is clear that providers must now work together more than ever before, and must be able to use the estate in a more ‘joined up’ way to bring services closer to communities and improve the quality of care. However, appropriate and wellmanaged estate doesn’t just provide a space in which modernisation and innovation can happen. The right facilities, built and managed with innovation, creativity, and flexibility, at their heart, can and do play an active role in supporting and maximising that modernisation.
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