healthcare world series
The Evolution of Healthcare Infrastructure Healthcare World’s expert panel delivers a vision for the future
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ne of the challenges of healthcare is the fact that for the last 100 years or more, the development of infrastructure has been the solution to any healthcare problem. Within months of the pandemic being recognised, enormous Nightingale hospitals were built in the UK that were never used. The pandemic shambles and the parallel acceleration of digital health has shown that the theatre in which healthcare is performed is going to be the home and the means will be digital. The Healthcare World Series debated this new development with leaders in this field who are spearheading the ‘revolution’:
Richard Cantlay, Head of Healthcare at Mott MacDonald, Elliott Engers of digital solutions Infinity Health, data guru Simon Swift of Methods Analytics, Carly Caton of lawyers Bevan Brittan and infrastructure specialist Barry Francis. The balance between prevention and intervention Reducing the healthcare demand at source by maintaining a population’s health is one way of approaching the subject, according to Richard Cantlay. He quoted statistics showing that global deaths from noncommunicable diseases are now around 60
per cent, and are linked to diet, air quality, exercise and other issues. “We need a whole system approach to wellbeing, not the current system that sees maintaining a population’s health as the healthcare sector’s problem to deal with,” he said. He went on to illustrate how built environment projects can also put
Richard Cantlay Head of Healthcare Mott MacDonald
“We need a whole system approach to wellbeing, not the current system that sees maintaining a population’s health as the healthcare sector’s problem to deal with”
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