Below are this week’s key messages from the national NHS Estates & Facilities Team. Please email any questions or comments you have on any of these items to [email protected] or follow the links where provided.
COVID-19: General Update and the National Vaccination Programme
We would like to thank you for your continued engagement with the weekly surveys to-date. The responses are really important in helping NHS England and NHS Improvement as an organisation to shape how we engage with our healthcare workforce.
A link to this week’s survey is here and again we would be grateful for your responses - the survey will take less than five minutes to complete.
We all look forward to life returning to more normality with the current situation continuing to improve. However, we as a profession need to ensure that we remain as safe as possible which will help to support the NHS as it increases the pace at which it returns to BAU. Please continue to make use of the resource materials which are available now for use by estates and facilities teams to encourage staff vaccination take-up. These can be accessed from the Collaboration Hub.
National Publications
The updated Waste Management SOP was published on April 29 and can be accessed here.
We are still working through the various questions which were raised during the webinar about the new National Standards of Healthcare Cleanliness on April 29, 2021. The resulting FAQs document will be shared once it has been finalised. We are also trying to resolve some technical issues with the recording of the webinar and will advise on this in the near future.
NHS Premises Assurance Model (PAM)
As set out in the NHS Standard Contract (Service Conditions 17.9) completion of the NHS PAM is required by all NHS Trusts annually. Previously this has been provided as a spreadsheet.
From 2020-21 onwards, a new online system has been developed to support this. The national NHS Estates and Facilities Team has recently e-mailed invitations and guidance to the lead contacts at NHS Trusts to access the system. All NHS provider Trusts must complete their NHS PAM by July 23 2021.
We are in the process of arranging webinars on a Trust type basis. These are expected to take place during the week commencing May 17 and we will be sending the invitations in the next few days.
For comments, questions and feedback on the NHS PAM please e-mail [email protected] and mark it for the attention of Michael Bellas.
Better Business Case Training
NHS England and NHS Improvement has been accredited by APMG International to provide the Better Business Case training across the NHS. Further details on how to access this support can be found here.
Chef of the Year
We are now expecting to launch this in the very near future. Further details will be provided in the next update. Please watch out for these details.
Please follow the national NHS Estates and Infrastructure team on twitter @EstatesNHS
NHS England and NHS Improvement National Estates Team: Collaboration Hub
The Collaboration Hub is a protected space for local NHS estates and facilities teams to access key information as well as to collaborate and to share ideas and successes. Access to the Collaboration Hub for individuals from local NHS estates teams can be arranged by e-mailing [email protected]
Thank You
Our thanks to all of those working in estates and facilities for all that you in maintaining the NHS estate, facilitating patient care as well as supporting the ongoing response to COVID-19. The service could not function without you.
