Kagioglou / Tzortzopoulos Improving Healthcare through Built Environment Infrastructure

1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-4443-1968-2
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 296 Seiten, E-Book

From the Foreword by Rob Smith, Director of Estates andFacilities (NHS England), Department of Health
'The built environment for the delivery of Healthcare willcontinue to change as it responds to new technologies andmodalities of care, different expectations and requirements ofproviders and consumers of care. It is vital that built environmentstudents and practitioners alike avail themselves of the bestpossible information to guide them in their studies, continuingprofessional development and the delivery of their tasks. The rangeis enormous from the assessment of need, planning the servicedelivery to design, construction, commissioning, maintenance andoperation of the healthcare environment.
The book that follows addresses these areas from a blend ofcontributions of experienced practitioners to the descriptions ofthe output from recent research that moves forward the frontiers ofknowledge and practice in the many areas of the healthcare builtenvironment.
I happily commend this book to all engaged in the excitingfields of planning, delivering, maintaining and operatinghealthcare environments. When we get it right, we are able to doimmeasurable good.'
This book helps academic researchers as well as practitioners tounderstand how the healthcare infrastructure sector works byaddressing the crucial issue of healthcare delivery from a builtenvironment perspective.
It explains the trends in healthcare, models of healthcaredelivery; healthcare planning; the NHS building and investmentprogrammes; the procurement process; and facilities management;financial models - including PFI and LIFT; risk allocationand partnering.
Past investigations in the area of healthcare delivery haveconcentrated on either the medical aspects or the design issues ofbuildings but Improving Healthcare through Built EnvironmentInfrastructure is unique in considering the 'meetingspace' of built environment technologies and modern methodsof procurement with the medical and operational needs of healthcaresettings.
The authors have brought together key industrialists andacademics, all heavily involved in the formulation and delivery ofnew practices. Case studies illustrate how policies and healthcaremodels are implemented in practice and help identify the keychallenges for the future.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kagioglou, Mike

Tzortzopoulos, Patricia

Über Autor(innen)

Mike Kagioglou is a Professor of Process Management and Head of the School of the Built Environment, University of Salford. He comes from an engineering manufacturing background and for the past 12 years he has been undertaking research and teaching in the area of the built and human environment. Mike is currently the Director for Salford Centre for Research & Innovation and the Academic Director for Salford University of Collaborative Health and Care Infrastructure Research and Innovation Centre. Mike has published over 100 academic and industrial papers and reports