Doing more with less
Managing a Growing Backlog on a Frozen Headcount
Recruitment freezes are colliding with rising backlog risk and a heavier reporting burden. Here is what you can do to avoid them.
From reactive to audit-ready
Mastering Contractor Management and Compliance Without Data Silos
Being compliant and being able to prove it aren't the same thing. In this article, we’ll discuss what audit-ready should actually mean for an NHS estate, day to day.
The NHS 10-year plan
Can your space data keep up with the rising clinical demand?
The NHS 10-Year Plan is shifting care into the community. Here's why space data has to move with it and what a lot of existing hospital space actually needs to do.
The hidden cost of NHS Estate Software
5 Questions to Ask Before You Sign a CAFM Contract
The initial price is rarely the real number. Five questions worth asking any CAFM or IWMS vendor, and how to model the true cost before you sign.
Taking Back Control of the NHS Estate
Why in-house facilities teams need sovereign data?
Here's a question worth sitting with for a minute. If your Trust changed one of its maintenance contractors tomorrow, would you keep the full history of your assets, the condition surveys, the certificates, the job records, or would a meaningful part of it leave with the contractor?
One Version of the Truth
Why Estates, Compliance and Space Teams Keep Working From Different Numbers
The same estate, three different systems, three different answers, even though everyone involved is doing their job properly. Ask an estates director, a compliance manager and a space planner about the same building and you'll often get three different answers. Here's what that actually costs.
The £15.9bn question
Why the NHS backlog keeps growing and what you can actually do to influence it?
The £15.9bn figure gets quoted a lot, and for good reason. But it hides something more useful underneath it, which is that the backlog isn't really one single number at all. Under the ERIC return, backlog maintenance is broken down into risk categories, from high risk through to low risk, and the high-risk portion alone now sits above £3.5bn.
