Capital Planning and Projects is a relatively small department of project management and development specialists within the Facilities and Estates Directorate of NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde.
The team is led by Professor Tom Steele, who is the Director of Facilities and Estates and John Donnelly, Head of Capital Planning. The team include architects, surveyors, engineers and project managers.
They are responsible for the development, procurement and implementation of capital and revenue funded projects across NHSGGC.
This includes development of business cases for the programme of major new acute and primary care facilities, management of the Board’s capital equipment replacement programme and the on-site management of strategic projects following the appointment of designers and contractors.
The department’s project managers act as the link between the service, finance and governance and the construction interests of each project.
This work includes:
- Supporting the delivery of services and clinical infrastructure, systems and facilities required to provide modern, fit-for-purpose health care.
- The development and delivery of effective facilities management including implementation of capital projects, to ensure and maintain healthcare provision.
- Prioritising competing demands in respect of allocating and co-ordinating departmental space requirement and demands. Where infrastructure projects create or develop capacity, then the first call on that will be through the projects/needs already identified, to ensure a strategic approach in the use of NHSGG’s facilities, in line with the agreed Clinical Strategy.
The management and maintenance of the physical environment, in which healthcare can best be delivered to the patient that also promotes their wellbeing. We are currently working on a new Infrastructure Strategy which will be driven by, and support the Board’s Clinical Service strategy across Acute, Mental Health and HSCP sectors thereby enabling the delivery of the ‘Moving Forward Together’ Vision. The anticipated outputs of this exercise will include the following:
- A Strategy which aligns with our Clinical Strategy and considers the impact of developments in eHealth/Digital.
- A development plan for the whole estate which sets out our future infrastructure arrangements aligned with our transition towards a new service model.
- A set of site-specific development control plans for larger parts of the estate
- A programme of short-, medium- and long-term investment requirements designed to gradually transform the GGC infrastructure arrangements so that they better meet the challenges faced and support the transformation of clinical services.
- A further programme of investment focussed on addressing the challenge of maintaining safe, effective and robust existing infrastructure
- A route-map towards improving the energy efficiency and carbon impact of our estate.
We hope that these pages help you to understand the capital planning process better and allows you to see the important role our properties play in helping people live healthier, longer lives.
We are committed to building a healthier future for the people of Greater Glasgow and Clyde and beyond.
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