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.
Organisations
- Imperial College London (Lead Research Organisation)
- Manchester City Council (Project Partner)
- Wates (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- Tribal Group (Project Partner)
- MaST LIFT (Project Partner)
- Lend Lease (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- BWB Consulting (Project Partner)
- National Audit Office (Project Partner)
- Davis Langdon LLP (Project Partner)
- Inter Academy for Design and Health UK (Project Partner)
- Mersey Care NHS Trust (Project Partner)
- Loughborough University (Project Partner)
- University College Hospital (Project Partner)
- MJ Medical (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- World Agency of Planetary Monitoring & Earthquake Risk Reduction (Project Partner)
- ArcHealth (Project Partner)
- Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust (Project Partner)
- University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust (Project Partner)
- LEICESTER CITY COUNCIL (Project Partner)
- YRM Architects (Project Partner)
- Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust (Project Partner)
- Willmott Dixon (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- Complexity Solutions Ltd (Project Partner)
- ActivePlan Solutions Ltd (Project Partner)
- West Sussex Primary Care Trust (Project Partner)
- Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust (Project Partner)
- Purdue University (Project Partner)
- Clean Modules Ltd (Project Partner)
- National Health Service (Project Partner)
- Mace (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust (Project Partner)
- Architects for Health (Project Partner)
- I B M United Kingdom Ltd (Project Partner)
- National Health Service Scotland (Project Partner)
- Eric Wright Group (Project Partner)
- Unlimited Potential (Project Partner)
- Chalmers University of Technology (Project Partner)
- Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (Project Partner)
- Leicestershire County Council (Project Partner)
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Project Partner)
- Huazhong University of Science and Technology (Project Partner)
- P and HS Architects (Project Partner)
- Frimley Park Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (Project Partner)
Publications
Harty C
(2010)
Emerging Hybrid Practices in Construction Design Work: Role of Mixed Media
in Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
Hignett S
(2010)
Space to care and treat safely in acute hospitals: recommendations from 1866 to 2008.
in Applied ergonomics
Bresnen M
(2010)
Editorial: objects, knowledge sharing and knowledge transformation in projects
in Construction Management and Economics
Harty C
(2010)
Implementing innovation: designers, users and actor-networks
in Technology Analysis & Strategic Management
Hassanain M
(2010)
A framework for quality evaluation of university housing facilities
in Journal of Building Appraisal
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
Dattée B
(2010)
Complexity and whole-system change programmes.
in Journal of health services research & policy
Roehrich J
(2010)
Towards a model of governance in complex (product-service) inter-organizational systems
in Construction Management and Economics
Rechel B
(2010)
Hospital capacity planning: from measuring stocks to modelling flows.
in Bulletin of the World Health Organization
Schweber L
(2010)
Actors and objects: a socio-technical networks approach to technology uptake in the construction sector
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
Barlow J
(2011)
Raising the profile of simulation and modelling in health services planning and implementation.
in Journal of health services research & policy
Hendy J
(2012)
The role of the organizational champion in achieving health system change.
in Social science & medicine (1982)
Hendy J
(2013)
Adoption in practice: The relationship between managerial interpretations of evidence and the adoption of a healthcare innovation
in Health Policy and Technology
Malik D
(2013)
The inactivation of Bacillus subtilis spores at low concentrations of hydrogen peroxide vapour
in Journal of Food Engineering
Jayanti A
(2013)
Barriers to successful implementation of care in home haemodialysis (BASIC-HHD):1. Study design, methods and rationale.
in BMC nephrology
Oliveira TC
(2013)
Teleconsultations reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
in Journal of health services research & policy
A. Tucker D
(2014)
When infrastructure transition and work practice redesign collide
in Journal of Organizational Change Management
Henderson C
(2014)
Cost-effectiveness of telecare for people with social care needs: the Whole Systems Demonstrator cluster randomised trial.
in Age and ageing
Bayer S
(2014)
Innovation and the dynamics of capability accumulation in project-based firms
in Innovation
Oliveira TC
(2014)
Telemedicine in Alentejo.
in Telemedicine journal and e-health : the official journal of the American Telemedicine Association
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
Abma I
(2014)
Perceptions and experiences of financial incentives: a qualitative study of dialysis care in England.
in BMJ open
MILLS G
(2015)
CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE RISK IN NHS ENGLAND: PREDICTING THE IMPACT OF BUILDING PORTFOLIO AGE
in International Journal of Strategic Property Management
Mills G
(2015)
Rethinking healthcare building design quality: an evidence-based strategy
in Building Research & Information
Adamu Z
(2015)
The Design and Simulation of Natural Personalised Ventilation (NPV) System for Multi-Bed Hospital Wards
in Buildings
Tucker DA
(2015)
The importance of role sending in the sensemaking of change agent roles.
in Journal of health organization and management
Uzun Jacobson E
(2015)
The scope for improvement in hyper-acute stroke care in Scotland
in Operations Research for Health Care
Cravo Oliveira T
(2015)
The association between general practitioner participation in joint teleconsultations and rates of referral: a discrete choice experiment.
in BMC family practice
Spyridonidis D
(2015)
Leadership for Knowledge Translation: The Case of CLAHRCs.
in Qualitative health research
Hanson J
(2016)
Lifestyle monitoring as a predictive tool in telecare
in Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare
Koskela L
(2016)
Evaluation of the Promotion of Through-Life Management in Public Private Partnerships for Infrastructure
in Sustainability
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
Malik D
(2016)
An Investigation into the Inactivation Kinetics of Hydrogen Peroxide Vapor Against Clostridium difficile Endospores
in Chemical Engineering Communications
Dattée, B
(2017)
Multilevel Organizational Adaptation: Scale Invariance in the Scottish Healthcare System
in Organization Science
Barlow
(2017)
Managing Innovation In Healthcare
Zhao Y
(2017)
Patients' Perspectives on the Design of Hospital Outpatient Areas
in Buildings
Dattée B
(2017)
Multilevel Organizational Adaptation: Scale Invariance in the Scottish Healthcare System
in Organization Science
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
Wanigarathna N
(2021)
Sources and flow of healthcare built environment design evidence
in Built Environment Project and Asset Management
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 |