Better health through better infrastructure

Welcome to HaCIRIC’s 2009 Progress Report. Better Health through Better Infrastructure offers a chance to reflect on both the achievements of our short history and on the strategy for going forward. The Centre is now in its third year since foundation. In that time, we have taken enormous strides and have begun to fulfill the imagination and foresight of our funders. We are starting to make a real, measurable impact on the health and care sectors and their supply chains. We have also grown to understand much better the main issues facing our stakeholders and to fashion four key areas upon which to focus our future activity. HaCIRIC, as Patricia Leahy of the National Audit Office says, is ‘bringing innovative, rigorous analysis to the field’. She highlights the useful outputs that are now emerging from all the universities involved. Our mission – to improve health outcomes through innovative thinking about infrastructure – is bold and creative. It is helping, as Professor Duane Passman of Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust, suggests, ‘to take us back to being world class researchers in infrastructure and the built environment’. This goal is absolutely right for the times, as governments all over the world struggle to create greater value out of tighter budgets. As is clear from this report, HaCIRIC understands the real needs of the sector. It has created the capacity, the vision and the drive to deliver what is needed

Health and Care Infrastructure Research and Innovation Centre final report 2014

Improving healthcare, while containing costs, demands sophisticated understanding of three core elements in healthcare systems: infrastructure, technology and services. Their tripartite relationship is extremely complex, not least because the pace of change for each is different. That creates considerable challenges in planning for future needs and makes the management of innovation and change difficult. [Continues.

Designing Digital Spaces to Support Knowledge Exchange

<p>This paper presents two online studies designed to support the building of connections between a group of individuals prior to meeting face-to-face at an intensive residential workshop. The studies were conducted using off-the-shelf tools to create gated online spaces that were incrementally populated with facilitated activities designed to scaffold participant dialogue and interactions. Data gathered during the workshop and at follow-up interviews explored participants’ interactions, motivations for their level of involvement, and their perceived value of the online study. Findings indicate that a) domain based activities are most useful for driving engagement and b) bespoke platforms may be more appropriate than existing platforms. Whilst challenges remain in generating and maintaining engagement, participants who actively took part in the study found it valuable on both an individual basis and in supporting the development of group tacit knowledge.</p

Various Types of Users Passing Through Each Gate.

<p>No. denotes the number of individuals moving through a gate. This is then expressed as a percentage broken down by their reason for being on the ward.</p

Plan of the units.

<p>Gates were defined as those thresholds across which individuals travel. Gate numbers were not consecutive, as some gates had no doors. Gates and doors (when present) were numbered using the same numbering system.</p

Transmission potential in relation to door handle type.

<p>Transmission potential in relation to door handle type.</p

Ratio of TVC/Movement for Each Type of Handle.

<p>Ratio of TVC/Movement for Each Type of Handle.</p