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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Hourd P (2014) Success in healthcare technology businesses: Coordinating the value milestones of new product introduction, financial stakeholders and business growth in Innovation

Ibrahim A (2006) The analysis and allocation of risks in public private partnerships in infrastructure projects in Nigeria in Journal of Financial Management of Property and Construction

Ibrahim A (2009) Evaluation of key practices under the Local Improvement Finance Trust (LIFT) initiative for UK healthcare facilities in Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management

Jayanti A (2013) Barriers to successful implementation of care in home haemodialysis (BASIC-HHD):1. Study design, methods and rationale. in BMC nephrology

Kappia J (2007) Prioritising career development in relation to recruitment and retention: a trade and craft perspective in Construction Management and Economics

Koskela L (2016) Evaluation of the Promotion of Through-Life Management in Public Private Partnerships for Infrastructure in Sustainability

Laryea S (2009) Commercial reviews in the tender process of contractors in Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management

Lewis M (2009) Contracts, relationships and integration: towards a model of the procurement of complex performance in International Journal of Procurement Management

Liu K (2010) Pervasive informatics: theory, practice and future directions in Intelligent Buildings International

Liyanage C (2009) Knowledge communication and translation - a knowledge transfer model in Journal of Knowledge Management

Lu J (2009) Using task analysis in healthcare design to improve clinical efficiency. in HERD

Maben J (2016) One size fits all? Mixed methods evaluation of the impact of 100% single-room accommodation on staff and patient experience, safety and costs. in BMJ quality & safety

MacNeill V (2014) Experiences of front-line health professionals in the delivery of telehealth: a qualitative study. in The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners

Malik D (2013) The inactivation of Bacillus subtilis spores at low concentrations of hydrogen peroxide vapour in Journal of Food Engineering

Malik D (2016) An Investigation into the Inactivation Kinetics of Hydrogen Peroxide Vapor Against Clostridium difficile Endospores in Chemical Engineering Communications

Mathur V (2008) Conceptualizing stakeholder engagement in the context of sustainability and its assessment in Construction Management and Economics

Mills G (2015) Rethinking healthcare building design quality: an evidence-based strategy in Building Research & Information

MILLS G (2015) CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE RISK IN NHS ENGLAND: PREDICTING THE IMPACT OF BUILDING PORTFOLIO AGE in International Journal of Strategic Property Management

Myron R (2018) Professionals learning together with patients: An exploratory study of a collaborative learning Fellowship programme for healthcare improvement. in Journal of interprofessional care

Oliveira TC (2013) Teleconsultations reduce greenhouse gas emissions. in Journal of health services research & policy

Oliveira TC (2014) Telemedicine in Alentejo. in Telemedicine journal and e-health : the official journal of the American Telemedicine Association

Picard J (2009) Guidelines and the adoption of 'lipid rescue' therapy for local anaesthetic toxicity. in Anaesthesia

Pink S (2010) Ethnographic methodologies for construction research: knowing, practice and interventions in Building Research & Information

Raj S (2009) Responsiveness to change by standard-form contract drafters in the construction industry A case study of the FIDIC White Book in International Journal of Law in the Built Environment

Rechel B (2010) Hospital capacity planning: from measuring stocks to modelling flows. in Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Roehrich J (2010) Towards a model of governance in complex (product-service) inter-organizational systems in Construction Management and Economics

Rooke C (2010) Using the physical properties of artefacts to manage through-life knowledge flows in the built environment: an initial exploration in Construction Management and Economics

Rooke J (2007) Criteria for evaluating research: the unique adequacy requirement of methods in Construction Management and Economics

Rooke J (2011) Models and metaphors: complexity theory and through-life management in the built environment in Architectural Engineering and Design Management

Schweber L (2010) Actors and objects: a socio-technical networks approach to technology uptake in the construction sector in Construction Management and Economics

Soetanto R (2007) Structural frame selection: case studies of hybrid concrete frames in Building Research & Information

Spyridonidis D (2015) Leadership for Knowledge Translation: The Case of CLAHRCs. in Qualitative health research

Spyridonidis D (2010) Implementing clinical governance policy: NICE in British Journal of Healthcare Management

Tillmann PA (2010) Redefining healthcare infrastructure: moving toward integrated solutions. in HERD

Tucker DA (2015) The importance of role sending in the sensemaking of change agent roles. in Journal of health organization and management

Tzortzopoulos P (2007) An investigation on the implementation of product development process models in construction companies in Construction Management and Economics

Tzortzopoulos P (2006) Clients' activities at the design front-end in Design Studies

Tzortzopoulos, P (2007) Design management from a contractor's perspective: the need for clarity in Architectural Engineering and Design Management

Uzun Jacobson E (2015) The scope for improvement in hyper-acute stroke care in Scotland in Operations Research for Health Care

Wright, S (2010) Capital in the city: Investing in the hospital of the future in Healthcare IT Management,

Zhao Y (2017) Patients' Perspectives on the Design of Hospital Outpatient Areas in Buildings

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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