Health and Care Infrastructure Research and Innovation Centre (HaCIRIC)

Lead Research Organisation: Imperial College London

Department Name: Imperial College Business School

Abstract

Modernising the UK's health and social care system is a priority for government and for the country as a whole. To do this, wide ranging organisational and funding reforms are being put in place. An unprecedented investment to renew the built and technical infrastructure for delivering care is also underway: new hospitals and primary care centres are being built, information and communication technology is being upgraded and new technologies for diagnosing and treating disease are being introduced. If world-class infrastructure is to be delivered, this investment must achieve its full potential. The aim of HaCIRIC is to establish a new research centre to help accomplish this. HaCIRIC's focus is on the built and technical infrastructure for health and social care, and the interaction between infrastructure specification and the way patients are treated. Improving the way this is planned, delivered and managed is at the core of HaCIRIC's activity. What are the challenges? The health and social care system is one of the most complex and rapidly changing organisational and technical environments in any sector of the economy. Many stakeholders are involved in delivering care, funding mechanisms are convoluted, and patterns of demand and use are changing, as are government health policies. All this places new pressures on the underlying infrastructure. These are compounded by two problems. First, there is an historic legacy of out-dated buildings and cultures within the care system. Second, the life cycles of the various elements of the infrastructure / buildings, medical and information technology / are mismatched. Each involves complex supply chains, multiple users with their own needs and differing institutional and funding arrangements. All these have to be reconciled. For example, the current PFI programme for new hospitals involves supply contracts for thirty years or more, but incorporates technologies which have five year life cycles to help deliver diagnostics and therapies which are undergoing rapid evolutionary change. Modernising the health and social care infrastructure will therefore require innovative approaches. HaCIRIC will help develop the tools and processes which will embed 'innovation as normal business' amongst those responsible for delivering the investment in infrastructure. Its research programme has been developed in partnership with all the key stakeholders from the care system, including the Department of Health, the NHS, the Department of Trade and Industry and the supply industries. Seven research themes have been identified:- Managing innovation in a context of technological change- Procurement for innovation- Innovative design and construction- Care delivery practices- Delivering improved performance through operations management- Knowledge management in complex systems - Design and evaluation of integrated systems HaCIRIC is a collaboration between existing research centres at Imperial College London and the Universities of Loughborough, Reading and Salford. Additional partners from other universities, industry and the care system will be involved in specific research projects. Together this represents a resource valued at more than 11m, of which 7.0m consists of EPSRC support, 2.9m is from the four existing research centres, 500,000 is from the Department of Trade and Industry and 720,000 is from industrial partners. HaCIRIC will therefore represent a substantial resource and a unique capability in skills and knowledge to find solutions to the key healthcare infrastructure problems of the 21st century.

Funded Value:

£7,236,672

Funded Period:

Jun 06 - May 11

Funder:

EPSRC

Project Status:

Closed

Project Category:

Research Grant

Project Reference:

EP/D039614/1

Principal Investigator:

James Barlow

Research Subject:

Civil eng. & built environment (33%)

Mathematical sciences (33%)

Systems engineering (34%)

Research Topic:

Construction Ops & Management (33%)

Design Engineering (34%)

Mathematical Aspects of OR (33%)

Organisations

People	ORCID iD
James Barlow (Principal Investigator)
Michail Kagioglou (Co-Investigator)
Colin Gray (Co-Investigator)
David Gann (Co-Investigator)
Ghassan Aouad (Co-Investigator)
Andrew Price (Co-Investigator)
David John Williams (Co-Investigator)
Stuart Green (Co-Investigator)

Publications

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A. Tucker D (2014) When infrastructure transition and work practice redesign collide in Journal of Organizational Change Management

Abma I (2014) Perceptions and experiences of financial incentives: a qualitative study of dialysis care in England. in BMJ open

Adamu Z (2015) The Design and Simulation of Natural Personalised Ventilation (NPV) System for Multi-Bed Hospital Wards in Buildings

Barlow (2017) Managing Innovation In Healthcare

Barlow J (2007) A systematic review of the benefits of home telecare for frail elderly people and those with long-term conditions. in Journal of telemedicine and telecare

Barlow J (2011) Raising the profile of simulation and modelling in health services planning and implementation. in Journal of health services research & policy

Barlow J (2009) The challenges of adopting integrated mainstream telecare services: lessons from the UK in Eurohealth

Barlow J (2010) De facto privatization or a renewed role for the EU? Paying for Europe's healthcare infrastructure in a recession. in Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine

Barlow J (2009) The challenges of adopting integrated mainstream telecare services: lessons from the UK in Eurohealth

Barlow J (2008) The private finance initiative, project form and design innovation in Research Policy

Barlow J (2009) Delivering Innovation in Hospital Construction: Contracts and Collaboration in the UK's Private Finance Initiative Hospitals Program in California Management Review

Barlow James (2009) Delivering Innovation in Hospital Construction: CONTRACTS AND COLLABORATION IN THE UK'S PRIVATE FINANCE INITIATIVE HOSPITALS PROGRAM in CALIFORNIA MANAGEMENT REVIEW

Barlow James (2007) A systematic review of the benefits of home telecare for frail elderly people and those with long-term conditions in JOURNAL OF TELEMEDICINE AND TELECARE

Bassioni H (2008) Evaluation and analysis of criteria and sub-criteria of a construction excellence model in Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management

Bayer S (2014) Innovation and the dynamics of capability accumulation in project-based firms in Innovation

Bayer S (2006) Balancing work: bidding strategies and workload dynamics in a project-based professional service organisation in System Dynamics Review

Bayer S (2010) Facilitating stroke care planning through simulation modelling. in Health informatics journal

Bosher L (2009) Attaining improved resilience to floods: a proactive multi-stakeholder approach in Disaster Prevention and Management: An International Journal

Bosher L (2007) Integrating disaster risk management into construction: a UK perspective in Building Research & Information

Bresnen M (2010) Editorial: objects, knowledge sharing and knowledge transformation in projects in Construction Management and Economics

Broadbent J (2008) Identifying and controlling risk: The problem of uncertainty in the private finance initiative in the UK's National Health Service in Critical Perspectives on Accounting

Caldwell N (2009) Procuring complex performance in construction: London Heathrow Terminal 5 and a Private Finance Initiative hospital in Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management

Cartwright M (2013) Effect of telehealth on quality of life and psychological outcomes over 12 months (Whole Systems Demonstrator telehealth questionnaire study): nested study of patient reported outcomes in a pragmatic, cluster randomised controlled trial. in BMJ (Clinical research ed.)

Codinhoto R (2009) The impacts of the built environment on health outcomes in Facilities

Codinhoto R (2009) Evidence-based design of health care facilities. in Journal of health services research & policy

Key Findings
Impact Summary


Description	For copy of final programme report and details of all (c.300) publications please visit www.haciric.org or contact Prof. James Barlow
Exploitation Route	see programme final report, available at www.haciric.org
Sectors	Construction,Healthcare
URL	http://www.haciric.org


Description	For copy of final programme report and details of all (c.300) publications please visit www.haciric.org or contact Prof. James Barlow
First Year Of Impact	2014
Sector	Construction,Healthcare
Impact Types	Societal,Economic

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