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The report reveals NHSPS has taken huge strides forward in enabling better adaption, assessment, and maintenance of the 3,000 buildings or 10 per cent of the NHS estate it owns. It also enables the organisation to respond effectively to the Darzi Report and prepare its plans to help deliver the 10-Year Health Plan expected in Spring 2025.
NHS Property Services also launched its new strategy which has a vision of the organisation becoming the first choice NHS estate service delivery organisation. There are three pillars of delivery: a better estate: fit for the future; brilliant service: placing customers at the heart of everything we do; and unlocking value: understanding customer priorities and delivering value for money.
Cost efficiencies for the NHS have increased by 55 per cent from the previous year – rising to £71 million.
Alongside these savings, the organisation has increased its investment in the wider NHS estate, refurbishing or building new health facilities such as the joint development with Hounslow Council to create 55 affordable new homes for local NHS colleagues.
NHSPS says its Healthy Places programme continues to deliver new builds and refurbishments; the projects included investing £762,000 in supporting the North West to realise a critical neonatal ambulance service. There are a further 180 new builds and refurbishments on track for delivery over the next few years.
In addition, reducing vacant space remains a key initiative; in 2023-24 NHSPS has reduced the total vacant space for the year by 42,000m2.
And the 2023/4 environmental aims exceeded its own target. The organisation aimed to reduce carbon emissions by five per cent and instead achieved an 8.2 per cent reduction, which the NHSPS states gives confidence that its net zero ambitions for 2030 and 2040 will be achieved.
Martin Steele, Chief Executive Officer at NHSPS, said: “We have made excellent progress this year and find ourselves in a much stronger place to deliver the property infrastructure needed to ‘Build an NHS Fit for the Future’. And the launch of our thought leadership campaign last month focusses our organisation on how we can best help our customers to access the funding they need. Last year marked 10 years of our organisation supporting NHS customers and their communities and in our eleventh year we have placed ourselves in a positive position to deliver great results in 2025.”
FMJ has partnered with Watco to deliver a webinar on Thursday 30th January where we will be grilling a panel of experts on how facilities managers can maintain a safe workplace while balancing shrinking budgets.
The webinar follows the Lifting the Lid report series that the industrial paint and repair products specialist has been developing over the past few years based on research conducted with FMs across the UK. The research explored core responsibilities of the FM role, including how they have evolved in the past decade, and the associated challenges to manage.
Watco’s Sales Director and key contributor to the reports, Chris Budd, will be joined by a panel of experts including Phil Pinnington, Head of Audit & Consultancy at the British Safety Council, Nick Bray, Head of HSEQ, ISS UK and Ireland and Jenni Gallop, Director of Estates and Facilities at Provide Community.
With decades of combined experience in the introduction and management of health and safety in complex, demanding environments, the panel will provide the audience with recommendations broken down into steps that can be introduced immediately.
The panel will discuss the research data from FMs across the UK, the evidence they have seen of those experiences across industries and their first-hand recommendations on how to manage those challenges and ease the pressure.
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