Future Proofing

Infrastructure

Great infrastructure is the foundation for efficient healthcare. Nowhere is this more evident than the UK. Over two decades, the capital value of 100 major healthcare projects is £10 billion. The UK designers and deliverers of healthcare buildings have great experience and provide efficiencies in the ‘whole systems approach’, incorporating the clinical and operational context of the wider healthcare system.  And thus building for the future in the following way:

• Economical new technologies can facilitate remote diagnostics, monitoring and care
• Attuned to net zero agenda, use of modern methods of construction, building information modelling, adaptable buildings
• Produce facilities to prevent and control infection and are responsive to surge demand due to the pandemic 

Education & Training

Matching the healthcare needs of growing, ageing populations with the right supply of trained health professionals is a global challenge. The UK is tackling this by developing world renowned education and training programmes to deliver the health professionals needed to meet demand today and in the future. There are more than 40 medical schools in the UK.  These UK services for training cover areas such as: multidisciplinary clinical training, healthcare leadership & management, consultancy & advisory services and bespoke training programmes.  The providers range from colleges, universities, Royal Colleges, NHS Trusts, private and public providers who offer online, blended learning and can be delivered in-country.

Sustainability & Climate change

The NHS became the first national health system to commit to become ‘carbon net zero’, backed by clear deliverables and milestones by 2040. The NHS has adopted a multilayer plan to become the world’s first carbon net zero system.  The Greener NHS programme will work with NHS staff, hospitals and partners, building on the great work being done by trusts across the country, sharing ideas on how to reduce the impact on public health and the environment, save money and reach net carbon zero.

Pandemic Response

The strength of our UK pandemic response is credit to our rapid and effective cross-government collaboration bringing together unprecedented efforts, resources and close engagement with industry and academia.

Areas that the UK can provide support for the health system include: 

• Vaccines deployment strategy 
• Research and development opportunities 
• National surveillance & rapid response (i.e. National Variant Assessment Platform)
• National management immunisation services
• Other services to manage continuity, workforce and long COVID

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Case Study: Training

King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation is a key partner in one of London’s foremost Academic Health Science Centres: King’s Health Partners.

1 of 6 Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), designated AHSCs in England. It brings together a world-leading research-led university, (King’s College London) Guy’s and St Thomas Hospital; King’s College Hospital; and South London and Maudsley.  King’s Health Partners offers a wide range of bespoke training programmes for staff at all levels which contributes to improving quality of practice and patient.

Climate Change

Greener NHS is driven by their core vision: ‘To deliver the world’s first net zero health service and respond to climate change, improving health now and for future generations’. Examples include reducing the use of single-use plastics within Great Ormond Street Hospital, increasing usage of alternative surgical anesthesia (e.g., lower carbon alternative sevoflurane), and utilising zero-emission courier services.

Pandemic Response: CSU’s have been instrumental in  delivering rapid response solutions  to the COVID-19 pandemic, working  to support all parts of the health and social care system in England  One part of this response was through the national Immunisation Management Service, which supports the NHS enhanced winter flu programme and the national COVID-19 vaccination programme, supporting and optimising the uptake of vaccinations for the nation. https://www.scwcsu.nhs.uk/about/about-us

Infrastructure: YemeTech uses comprehensive analysis of existing activities, events and assets within communities to help identify opportunities for asset-based regeneration, social interaction and community wellbeing. http://www.yemearchitects.co.uk/about-us/