First contact – affordable excellence in front line healthcare

With capital new build programmes now complete or being scrapped, focus is changing to refurbishment and cost saving.  This, coupled with the trend towards cross-functional first-contact facilities, means that both PCTs and specifiers/ contractors need to find more innovative ways to create effective healthcare spaces, whilst minimising costs.

Alastair McLellan, Editor, HSJ, talks about BEST Healthcare

BEST Healthcare will show you how.

• What is the BEST Healthcare Hub?
• NHS Confederation Construction Challenge

The BEST Healthcare Hub will feature both specialist suppliers and a showcase of exemplar, low-cost first-contact and 'polyclinic' solutions, both for new build and refurbishment. 

It has been especially created to meet the needs of responsible for the build or management of estates within PCTs/ health trusts, or are a specifier/ contractor within the healthcare sector.

• Find solutions relevant to your project
  
  
• See examples of low-cost, integrated local health solutions
  
  
• Engage with client and contractors
  
  
• Glimpse into the future of value-driven local healthcare provision
  
  
• Equip yourself to be part of the health construction market under the new government and post-recession 
  
  
• Hear current best practice and learn from the experiences of others in the free seminar programme, facilitated by Health Service Journal
   

Each of the BEST sector Hubs are partnered with a major client within that market. The BEST Healthcare Hub is partnered with the NHS Confederation, who have laid down the following challenge.

Through the dedicated suppliers and product showcases, the BEST Healthcare Hub will aim to present practical, cost- effective solutions to help tackle and resolve this challenge. 

The NHS Confereration Challenge:

"Create next generation primary care facilities that are affordable, flexible and deliver on the needs of both patients & practitioners."