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Article Accommodating a brighter future
The recruitment and retention of health and care professionals is one of the most acute and urgent challenges facing the NHS today. Amid a worsening understaffing crisis, it is estimated that the total price of inaction would cost the NHS a staggering £21.7bn.
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Article Deliver or Delay? The Escalating Cost of Inaction on NHS Trusts and GP Estates
Why NHS trusts and Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) must embrace alternative solutions and a bold approach to avoid the spiralling costs of delay and build facilities fit for 21st-century healthcare.
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Our first podcast series, Space for Change in Health and Care, is a monthly podcast series bringing together thought leaders from across property, health, care, and community, to discuss the most pressing issues facing the future of our physical environment and its relationship to the health and wellbeing of society.
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The strategic importance of car parks in healthcare development
As demand for hospital services rises, every square metre of hospital estate becomes an increasingly precious resource, leaving trusts facing complex estate challenges. But what if the key to unlocking estates lay within the most unremarkable part of hospital infrastructure? In this article, we explore the strategic importance of car parks and transportation in shaping the future of hospital estates.
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Innovating key worker accommodation is not just a moral imperative – it’s a strategic one
In today’s economic climate, finding affordable, quality housing close to work is becoming an acute challenge for key workers - one that is stifling the recruitment and retention strategies of the NHS. The solution to building a sustainable pipeline of critical talent? The delivery and certainty of new key worker accommodation.
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Accommodating a brighter future
The recruitment and retention of health and care professionals is one of the most acute and urgent challenges facing the NHS today. Amid a worsening understaffing crisis, it is estimated that the total price of inaction would cost the NHS a staggering £21.7bn.
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Social value: How to build an enduring legacy
The development of new health and care facilities doesn’t simply reshape the physical landscape of towns and cities; their creation holds the power to alter the social fabric of communities. In this article, we explore why embedding social value at the inception of a project catalyses meaningful and profound change.
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Our best deserve better
The NHS Long Term Workforce Plan is a welcome commitment to begin rebuilding the healthcare workforce. In it, the stark reality of the retention and recruitment challenge facing the NHS is laid bare: NHS trusts are reporting a staff shortfall of 150,000 that will rise to 360,000 by 2036 unless steps are taken to solve the issue.
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Condition critical: Why a lack of quality key worker accommodation is constraining health and care services
Amid a cost-of-living crisis, the quality and viability of vital NHS and care services are directly linked to declining housing affordability. How can key worker accommodation provide a vital mechanism to solve this health and care crisis?
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