Making recommendations on how to design and implement a modular hospital concept and an evaluation of the benefits that it might deliver.

Description

Background Literature

Healthcare infrastructure requires significant levels of capital and countries across the world are looking to deliver new infrastructure reconfigurations. Health infrastructure is a key resource that must be sustained (Cowie et al. 2020).

Healthcare systems require constant reconfiguration to meet current and future health challenges and to build system and service resilience (Fallah-Aliabadi, et al. 2020).

There is increased recognition of the need to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of health systems across the continuum from prevention to palliation (Rechel et al., 2009).

This often results in upward pressure on health expenditure. Within the UK, the government’s Health Infrastructure Plan (HIP) outlines a five-year rolling programme of investment. Central to this programme is modular hospital delivery (DHSC, 2019).

Beyond the healthcare system, there are a series of organisations that see the value in modular construction. Firms are investing in new manufacturing processes such as Katerra (2019), Broad (2020a and 2020b), Mace (2018), Laing O’Rourke (2015 and 2018).

Others are joining together to create a wider platform of design, manufacture and assembly solutions (MTC, 2020 and Construction Innovation Hub, 2021).

The Brief

In this assignment you should consider how a modular hospital can be developed to capture and deliver value. This will involve you:

1. Identifying a theory or theories that support modular hospital value capture and delivery. For example you may decide that you would like to use your understanding of supply chain management, procurement, alliances, requirements management or stakeholder engagement. Or you might like to consider how you would develop a new approach to systems integration or use advanced design tools such as DSM, DfMA or pDfMA .

2. Selecting and describing the specific characteristics of modular hospital manufacture. You might describe the nature of the industry, a specific case study and capability, or how a client or project-based organisation are innovating. You should remark on the specific characteristic that make it complex to capture and deliver value.

3. Making recommendations on how to design and implement a modular hospital concept and an evaluation of the benefits that it might deliver. You might describe what the next steps are and who should be involved to facilitate and orchestrate the capture and delivery of value.

Taking your knowledge of the lectures and your private reading, contextualise and frame your use of theory to evaluate a practical modular hospital deployment situation. Think carefully about the focus (remember that it is expected that you do 60 hrs of private reading and 80 hours doing the writing). Use the assessment criteria below to guide you in writing your assignment.

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