Themes

Key themes driving healthcare innovation

From sustainability to digital transformation, our themes highlight the areas where research and collaboration are making the biggest impact.

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Healthcare environments.

Infection Prevention and Control
Infection prevention and control.

Focus on decontamination, outbreak management, antimicrobial resistance, and ventilation to reduce healthcare-associated infections.
Design of Healthcare Facilities.

This theme considers hospital layout, patient-centred design, governance, climate resilience, and ergonomics in healthcare construction.

Design of Healthcare Facilities
Maintenance of Healthcare Facilities
Maintenance of Healthcare Facilities

This theme will look at driving improvements in maintainability, standardisation, and use of digital estates tools, while strengthening collaboration across estates, clinical, and IPC teams to improve resilience, safety, and service continuity.
Project Delivery & Procurement.

This theme will support research into effective procurement and delivery models, drive national standardisation in project delivery, and embed robust post-project evaluation with shared learning repositories.

Project Delivery & Procurement
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