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NHS Estates is an executive agency of the Department of Health which provides support and advice on the procurement, design, operation and maintenance of healthcare buildings and facilities. The annual report and accounts details the agency's achievements and objectives and performance against targets for the year 2002-03.
Contracts and Commissions for the Nhs Estate
A good estate strategy is an integral part of healthcare planning. This publication gives best practice advice and includes sample strategies in the form of case studies. It is complemented by two other publications: "Estatecode", which includes a section on property appraisal; and "Capital Investment Manual", which sets out the process for procuring new capital assets.
This report provides cost and performance statistics in relation to the NHS estate and facilities management (efm) services in England, sourced from Trust annual returns and other data between the years 1999/00 to 2005/06. Data for the report has been collected using the Department of Health's online Estates Returns Information Collection (ERIC) system. Chapters cover: factors affecting efm data collection and analysis; key components of efm performance assessment; financial results for NHS trusts; energy performance results for NHS trusts for 2005/06; Strategic Health Authority (SHA) results for 2005/06; example models for measuring efm data.
NHS Estates annual Report 2004-2005
This review incorporates the views and visions of 2,000 clinicians and other health and social care professionals from every NHS region in England, and has been developed in discussion with patients, carers and the general public. The changes proposed are locally-led, patient-centred and clinically driven. Chapter 2 identifies the challenges facing the NHS in the 21st century: ever higher expectations; demand driven by demographics as people live longer; health in an age of information and connectivity; the changing nature of disease; advances in treatment; a changing health workplace. Chapter 3 outlines the proposals to deliver high quality care for patients and the public, with an emphasis...
This publication contains guidance to NHS organisations on planning and designing comprehensive mortuary and post-mortem facilities, including accommodation for the receipt, storage, viewing and removal of bodies; post-mortem examinations; visiting relatives and friends; staff support facilities; teaching and research. This third edition of the publication builds on and replaces the second edition published in 2001 (ISBN 0113224605).
The quality of the visual hospital environment can have a positive psychological effect on patient recovery and staff performance. This guidance document focuses on the visual environment in hospitals and healthcare buildings, and the use of appropriate colour design and lighting. It was written jointly by BRE and the Colour Design Research Centre at London South Bank University, as part of a Department of Health funded project.
Provides guidance to help health planners, estates and facilities managers, sterile services managers and capital planning and design teams to plan and design a sterile services department. It discusses the objectives of a sterile services department (SSD) and service requirements, particularly focusing on: raising standards in decontamination services by optimising the built environment: service requirements strategy: calculating the optimum capacity of an SSD to eradicate bottlenecks: determining the most appropriate location of an SSD. Design guidance based on the above service objectives is outlined. Finally, the finer details of the individual spaces within an SSD are discussed.