NHS Property 2024

Plenary session:

09.30 – 09.35  Chair’s welcome

09.30 – 10.30  Enhancing system wide efficiencies: A focus on space utilisation and unlocking funding – a lively conversation between NHS Property Services, Community Health Partnerships and Integrated Card Boards

10.30 – 11.00  Networking & Refreshments

11.00 – 11.30  1. Healthy Shopping – the case for shopping-centre based health hubs – Commissioners and developers of new community health services face significant challenges in sourcing viable sites that are in the right place. New services have to be right for the local population and trained staff have to be available to work in their chosen locations. There is also a host of technical and logistical challenges in delivering a new community-based facility: gaining planning permission, procuring contractors and managing the construction phases within time and budget. – This session will explore the benefits, challenges and lessons learned from Wood Green CDC and other projects, covering issues such as service model, workforce, accessibility, buildability, HTM/HBN compliance, contractual agreements and more – helping to inform attendees who may be considering delivering similar schemes.

11.40 – 12.10  Breakout sessions

2A  How Cheshire and Merseyside ICB are using social value as a mechanism for change, and the important role that estate plays in this

2B  Enhancing Fire Risk Management in the NHS – This presentation will explore the newly developed Fire Risk Assessment module within SOTERweb, designed specifically for NHS organisations. Built in collaboration with Liverpool University Hospitals Foundation Trust, this module aligns with the PAS 79 and BAFE SP205 standards, ensuring compliance with the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 and relevant HTMs (05-01, 05-02, 05-03). The module features an innovative Predictive Algorithm Modelling technique to enhance the accuracy and efficiency of fire risk assessments, while also addressing many of the challenges introduced by the Building Safety Act. It complements 14 other property-related modules, addressing the complex needs of large NHS estates, alongside a suite of modules designed for corporate health and safety management. Attendees will gain insight into how this solution optimises fire risk assessments, improves efficiency, and integrates seamlessly with NHS infrastructure.

12.20 – 12.50  Breakout sessions

3A Infection Control in the built healthcare environment. Compliance vs Safety – Infection control in new build premises should be ‘built in’ through planning stages using trained architectural professionals and clinicians. But what of pre-existing premises which were built without infection control input or before guidance around infection control existed or was updated? What can be done to highlight potential concerns and how to mitigate infection control risk?

3B  Art & Architecture in the healing environment – With the ever increasing pressure on Estate performance this talk addresses the need for basic, and good design as a pre-requisite for clinical space to form the framework of a successful healing environment – efficient utilisation of space and the introduction of The possible of art in your NHS Estate

12.50 – 13.40  Lunch & Networking

13.40 – 14.10  4. Cellular connectivity in hospitals: one year on – Last year Freshwave and Carolyn Botfield, Director of System Transformation and Infrastructure at NHS North East London discussed how to “Accelerate estate digitalisation with cellular connectivity”. Twelve months later and Freshwave are returning to share updates on how they’ve helped Princess Alexandra Hospital, Midland Metropolitan University Hospital and others do exactly that. Both now live with ward to wall cellular connectivity from all four mobile network operators, learn how their delivery team adapted and overcame survey, design and deployment realities in operational hospitals to assure connectivity where it matters most.

14.10 – 14.30  5. Unlocking funding through the Town Planning system

14.30 – 14.50 6. Driving value from leased estate

14.50 – 15.15  Networking & Refreshments

15.15 – 15.35  7. Shifting the dial – focusing on how CHP works in collaboration with commissioners and wider NHS partners to support in utilising the NHS estate and making the most out of capital funding.

15.35 – 15.55  8. How NHS Open Space can help you tackle poor utilisation and revenue needs – learn more about how NHS Open Space can assist tackling void or underutilised space in your estate.

15.55 – 16.00 Chair’s closing remarks

16.00 – 17.00  Drinks reception in Kendal’s Bar on the lower ground floor, kindly sponsored by Freshwave