Strategic Estates Review and Transformation

The project sought to address a range of challenges experienced by the University Hospitals of Northamptonshire NHS Group, including;

• Balancing limited resources with the need to increase delivery and harness innovation
• Staff retention and recruitment
• Optimising contractual relationships to gain strategic partners
• Implementing effective clinical information systems
• Optimising patient and staff safety
• Redeveloping and enhancing environments – especially with an aged estate
• Reaching carbon reduction targets through improved sustainability, efficient technology and the reduction of food waste.

Over a six-week period, Electrolite undertook a three-step strategic review across all workstreams. 

Step 1

• Initial review of Model Hospital and Eric Data
• Site visits and Stakeholder interviews to review models at each trust site
• Group / Collaborative Model Driver Workshops.

Step 2

• Identification of key savings opportunities through harnessing synergies and benchmarking data against best practice within similar sized trusts
• Assessment of combined benefits
• Development of Collaborative / Group model.

Step 3

• Development of benefits realisation plan
• Roadmap for delivery produced and transformation plan delivered to trust board
• Identification of a suite of projects to contribute to the Trust’s CIP/FIP targets, representing 10 % of the overall Estates and Facilities budget over a 2-year period.  

Electrolite acted as a delivery partner to support NGH and KGH to implement the Collaborative/ Group Model projects and achieve agreed efficiency targets across key service categories.

Category 1 

• Implementation of collaborative approach / group structure across services
• Development of Single Systems where required
• Enhanced procurement strategy and vested approach to contract management to ensure most cost-effective service delivery.

Category 2 

• Standardised service delivery across all sites – development of SLAs for all services including: patient feeding, domestics, EBME and Estates and Facilities.

Category 3 

Reviewed Options for Services that could be provided more effectively on a single site or with a single management structure, focussing on:

• Catering Production – economies of scale, maximising assets. 
• SSD – staffing efficiencies, space release, cost reduction from PPMs.