Standardization in Health Capital: Perspectives from the UK and Soundings from Canada

Pre-Conference Events will be held at the Courtyard Marriott Toronto Downtown – 475 Yonge St, Toronto, ON M4Y 1X7

The Ontario Ministry of Health is developing a standardized design process for healthcare facilities. Other provinces are making developments in this area to reduce costs, speed delivery and improve care by creating a continuous improvement design process. It’s still in the early stages in Canada in terms of formalized approaches, yet many hospitals and health regions have adopted locally tailored strategies and the headwinds in increased costs are moving towards a more holistic standards process.

In the UK, the New Hospital Programme (NHP) has a well-developed standardization program for health capital, clinical transformation and operational readiness. Alpa Patel the Integration Director for the NHP will share progress, challenges and opportunities with our CCHF network to accelerate our thinking and provide resources for future discussion.

In addition, CCHF is organizing a facilitated roundtable discussion with owners, designers and constructors to identify practical next steps in the Canadian context. Join the conversation!

Key Learning Objectives:

Learn about the UK’s New Hospital Programme standard components/ kits, governance, and delivery models.
Identify where standardization improves value ( time, cost, quality, carbon) and where local community input must remain.
Define actionable steps for owners and project teams to pilot, adapt and measure standardized solutions.

1:00 PM (45 min) New Hospital Programme, NHS England – Standardization in Healthcare Infrastructure

Alpa Patel, Integration Director, New Hospital Programme, NHS England

Alpa is a leader in the New Hospital Programme standardization in England for the redevelopment of new and existing healthcare stock.

We are so honoured to have Alpa join us from England to share critical information with the healthcare facilities sector about England’s standardized approach to building and delivering health facilities faster through transformational models of care, standardized functional plans and designs, coordinated pipeline and embedded continuous improvement using operational readiness and post-occupancy evaluation.

The imperative is to rethink what a hospital is and what it isn’t in the centre of the process.

Hospital 2.0 in England is the standardized model which aims to deliver hospitals faster and more consistently in waves.

The summary components of the program are to include:

Accelerated delivery process
A transformational care model
A repeatable design system (standard models grids and clusters)
An industrialized approach (repeatable solutions, standardized components)

Standards and Module Approach

Standardized layouts, consistent equipment placement, improved adjacencies, single rooms in maternity units etc..

Alignment and integration across hospital portfolios for alignment and building of care models

Integration / Digital and operational readiness

Ready to Operate Frameworks for Operational Readiness and alignment of building and care models

Continuous Learning

The program emphasizes systems thinking, stakeholder engagement in design and development

The goal is to open hospitals faster, identify blockages in advance and continuously refine the standards

Break 20 min

2:15 60 min Moderated Round Table Discussion

Designing the Next Generation of Hospitals with a view to a Standardized Approach: Learnings and Perspectives from England and Canada Sharing Perspectives

20 min

Antoine Buisseret, Associate Architect, Lemay

Ian McDermott, Vice-President, Capital and Facilities, Sinai Health

Barbara Miszkiel, Healthcare Leader, Canada, HDR

Joanna Smith, Consulting Advisory Team lead, Mott Macdonald (UK)

Robin Snell, Principal, Parkin Architects Limited

Tenny Vasilyan, Architect, HDR

Benedict Zucchi, Principal and Head of Architecture, BDP, UK

Moderator: Kieran McDonald, Partner, Agnew Peckham Health Care and Facility Planners

Audience Q & A and live polling on priorities and risks

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