The 2011 Health and Social Care Bill puts clinicians at the
forefront of health services commissioning during testing
times.
In the UK we have an increasing demand for
services exacerbated by an ageing population and associated long
term conditions such as heart disease and diabetes. This, coupled
with a downturn in the world economy, means that the NHS and the
wider health sector are facing enormous challenges.
Capita Symonds is the UK's leading delivery
partner for real estate and infrastructure solutions across the
health sector, offering a portfolio of services unmatched by our
peers that fuses health, estates, property and strategic real
estate expertise with cutting edge design, management, planning,
and engineering services.
Our philosophy is that the health sector
cannot just 'build its way' out of the downturn and that our focus
must also be about engaging with clinicians, staff and
patients to change the way they work and use buildings. Our
unparalleled expertise in clinical service redesign, coupled with
the experience, motivation and insight inherent in the health
sector, enables us to provide innovative solutions that result in
better integration with social care, with more care being carried
out closer to, and in, patients’ homes.
Through our estate optimisation work surplus
NHS sites will emerge through the reconfiguration of health
services that are suitable for both health and social care. Many of
these sites will have the potential to be developed as high quality
care villages which will meet the demand of an aging population and
free up hospitals to focus on acute care.
Find
out more about our health services in our Expertise
section.
We have even developed a whole new series of
products and services from lessons we have learnt from other
industries such as airport design and operation. These include
‘Welcome’ and retail centres, digital car parking solutions, hotels
in hospitals, and carbon reduction energy schemes.
We are also working with a host of innovative
construction processes that are changing the way we plan, design
and build hospitals and healthcare centres across the UK. From
off-site construction to a pioneering building shell manufacturing
process, new processes are ensuring that huge time savings are
being made on a construction programme while also raising a
building’s longevity past the 60-year mark.
We also work closely with our parent
company – Capita – which works with over 70% of NHS organisations,
148 of the 168 acute trusts in England, and has clients in every
health economy in the UK and Ireland.