Bringing Diagnostics Closer to Home
Community Diagnostic Centres (CDCs) are fast becoming one of the most important developments in supporting patient care closer to home. These centres play a vital role in lowering pressure on acute hospitals, improving access to diagnostics, and enabling earlier intervention through faster, more accessible testing.
Navigating Budget Pressures: Why Getting It Right First Time Matters
Ensuring the safe and secure storage of medicines in clinical settings is essential to reduce waste, prevent medication errors, and safeguard patients and staff.
Tackling Space Pressures in Hospitals
Hospital are some of the busiest and most essential places in our communities – but behind scenes, they’re often under more pressure than we realise. One challenge that’s quietly growing in hospitals is pressure for space; normally a fixed and limited resource that is needing to somehow expand to provide more capacity for the storage of a greater quantity of medications for increasing patient treatment numbers.
Inside the Theatre: Designing for Better Outcomes
An operating theatre is a vital component of the healthcare environment, requiring careful planning and design to support surgical procedures effectively. Unlike other clinical spaces, theatres must be meticulously designed to ensure smooth workflows, easy accessibility, and strict infection control.
The Future of Access to Medicines
The storage and access to medicines and drugs needs to be strictly controlled. There are multiple risks from having access to medicines including theft.
Creating a Contemporary Clinical Environment
Modern healthcare settings demand fitted furniture solutions that are not only functional but also adaptable to the evolving needs of medical professionals and patients alike.
Accurate Quotations First Time
Accurate quotations that are right first time can be impossible to achieve in larger projects, especially when delivery is in the public sector where budgets are limited.
Extra Funding Available?
Although public and private sector budgets are normally very tight, extra funding can sometimes unexpectedly become available. This may be from the cancellation of a larger project, un-spent year-end budget, a new Government initiative or grant, or a benevolent donation.
Ideas to Maximise NHS Budgets in 2025
As we start to settle into 2025, this is a great time to look at the Governments NHS Improvement Plan and start to consider how Hospitals and other clinical settings can maximise NHS budgets to address the challenge. The Challenge Building an NHS ‘Fit for the future’ has been a key priority for successive governments, […]