Below are the latest 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.
2021/22 ERIC – Deadline for data submission
E&F teams will be aware that the 2021/22 was launched on April 13, 2022 and was supported by webinars and other communications in the run up to this. The deadline for submission of the 2021/22 data is fast approaching. All NHS Trusts must submit their data by 9am on July 1.
We are asking all E&F teams to assure themselves that they are on track to submit their data by the stated deadline. Please e-mail: [email protected] if there are any queries, or if advice is needed to finalise returns.
Estates and Facilities Workforce Action Plan
We were really pleased to see the publication of our Workforce Action Plan on June 15. We would like to thank all of those concerned, including the professional bodies, for helping us to shape this important milestone document. The document can be accessed here.
We have scheduled a national webinar which will be an opportunity for the national E&F team to discuss the document in more detail with the profession. This will be taking place on July 20 at 11:30am. The webinar link and joining instructions will be sent to our listed contacts in the near future. NHS colleagues who are interested in attending this webinar should e-mail: [email protected] marked for the attention of Tom McHugh.
NHS Chef 2022
Our thanks to all those chefs who applied for this year’s competition as well as their local E&F teams for supporting them through this process. We are really looking forward to the regional heats during August and September, seeing the chefs concerned demonstrating their skills and helping to raise the bar still further for NHS catering. We would also like to express our thanks to the FM providers and suppliers for their fantastic support and whose help continues to be essential.
Public Sector Low Carbon Skills Fund
Phase 3 of Public Sector Low Carbon Skills Fund has been launched by Salix Finance in partnership with the Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy. Please see the NHS Estates Collaboration Hub for further information about this £14m fund. This includes information on the application process and the webinars which have been schedule to explain the scheme in more detail. The applications portal opened on June 15, 2022.
ProCure 22 Framework
The ProCure22 framework expires at 23.59 on June 30, 2022. No new ProCure22 PSCP selections can be made beyond this expiry. However existing ProCure22 schemes and projects, where an NHS Trust has already selected and appointed a PSCP, can still continue to deliver beyond the expiry date.
If you would like more information please contact: [email protected].
The ProCure22 framework has served the NHS extremely well – in its near six-year duration NHS clients have registered >£5bn of capital projects and assured delivery has been provided to a wide spectrum of projects. ProCure22 is succeeded by ProCure23, which is the fourth generation of ProCure, taking the framework into its third decade of delivery. ProCure23 is available to NHS Trusts now.
For more information please visit: NHS England » ProCure 23: A new route to market for NHS capital works.
Senior Responsible Officer training
The Government Commercial College is providing Senior Responsible Officer training for free until March 2023. The training is promoted to all NHS Trusts with PFIs or with outsourced FM services. Please register at: Government Commercial College: Log in to the site (govcommercialcollege.co.uk).
Other promotional details for the training can be found on the NHS Estates Collaboration Hub.
Patient entertainment and communication systems
We are currently looking at the national approach to bedside communication and entertainment systems for patients. As part of the scoping exercise we are keen to engage with Trusts to find out more about current needs and provision. We are interested in hearing from NHS Trusts about whether they have a current provider of services, either for communication, entertainment or both.
Further information can be found on the NHS Estates Collaboration Hub.
We have developed a short survey which should take around 10 minutes to complete. You can still access the link to the survey here.
National Standards of Healthcare Cleanliness: Healthcare Cleaning Manual
The Healthcare Cleaning Manual, which supports the National Standards of Healthcare Cleanliness was recently launched along with the written methodologies. These can be found on the NHS Estates Collaboration Hub along with a comprehensive range of videos and posters.
Case studies
We are continuing to review all areas of the NHS Estates Collaboration Hub, both the format in some areas as well as the general content. This includes the case studies area. As part of this process we would welcome some additional content. If you have successfully delivered an estates and facilities related project that could offer fellow E&F teams further insight into best practice and shared learning then we would like to hear from you.
In addition to the areas listed above we are also looking to share best practice which E&F teams might have developed in response to the current pockets of void beds. We are keen to learn from those E&F teams about the methods and ways they have successfully used barriers and other methods to allow all beds to be used across their estate in line with IPC requirements. We are keen that these ideas are shared securely across the NHS Estates Collaboration Hub.
If you are interested is sharing your best practice across these areas then please see the Hub for further details and the required template. Alternatively, contact: [email protected], marking for the attention of Joy Heaps and Tom McHugh.
Mailboxes – New E-mail Addresses
The e-mail addresses for both the National Estates and Facilities Team and the NHS Estates Collaboration Hub have been updated as follows:
National Webinars
Please note the following dates in your diaries:
• June 30 - NHS Estates and Facilities Resilience (the webinar link and joining instructions have already been sent to our listed contacts. E-mail: [email protected] marked for the attention of Tom McHugh)
• July 5 - PLACE
• July 13 - PLACE
• July 28 - Fire Safety
• September 29 - Digital Estate
• November 24 - The Great Food Good Health Programme, including NHS Chef 2022.
The joining links will be sent to all listed E&F contacts. NHS staff who would like to attend these sessions can also contact: [email protected] to request an invitation. All of the sessions outlined above will take place from 11am until 12:30pm.
The recordings of the recent national webinars; Modern Energy Partners (April 25), NZC - Launch of the Delivery Groups (April 27), Apprenticeship Challenge (April 28), Compressed Medical Oxygen Manifold Upgrade Project (April 28) and Update on the Health and Social Care Act, including Estates Strategies (May 26) are all available from the NHS Estates Collaboration Hub.
NHS Estates and Facilities Team - Monthly Bulletin
A condensed version of the Estates and Facilities bulletin was issued on June 15 to coincide with National Healthcare Estates and Facilities Day as well as the launch of our Workforce Action Plan. The next edition is scheduled towards the end of July.
The bulletin provides updates directly from NHS England and NHS Improvement’s Estates and Facilities Team including the latest guidance, health technical memoranda and policy developments affecting your work, as well as celebrating the successes of the wider E&F community. NHS staff can register to receive future editions of the newsletter.
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].
We have been arranging masterclasses to help registered members understand and navigate the Hub more effectively. If you are interested in attending one of these sessions then please e-mail the above mailbox.
If your e-mail address has changed over the past year (perhaps to .nhs.net), or you have moved to another NHS Trust then please e-mail us with the details: ([email protected]) so that we can update our records.
You can also follow our latest news and updates on the NHS Estates and Facilities LinkedIn page.
