Abstract
AMA Research has published the 2nd Edition of the Healthcare Construction
Market - UK 2007 report, focusing on key market trends, structure and change
within the NHS, major healthcare providers and companies, contractors and
procurement issues. This report continues a series of shorter insights on key
areas within public sector construction. Other completed reports include
higher education sector and student accommodation market, an analysis of the
Building Schools for the Future Initiative and the Procure21 and NHS LIFT
forms of procurement in healthcare construction.
Key Areas Covered:-
- An overall review of both primary and acute healthcare in the public and
private setting.
- Procurement of work by contractors, includes an analysis of PFI, Procure21
and NHS LIFT.
- Review of the structure and reform of the NHS in England, including the
restructuring of PCTs and SHAs.
- Analysis of public sector funding for NHS acute and primary care
facilities.
- Analysis of recent policy issues which have re-shaped the way in which
primary care is being delivered including Out of Hours Care, Payment By
Results and Practice-based Commissioning.
- Detailed analysis of the Government' s targets for capital spending as
outlined in the NHS Plan, an update of construction progress and an assessment
of contractor' s output of work in the healthcare market.
This report continues a series of shorter insights on key areas within public
sector construction. Other completed reports include higher education sector
and student accommodation market, an analysis of the Building Schools for the
Future Initiative and the Procure21 and NHS LIFT forms of procurement in
healthcare construction.
Of Particular Interest:-
- Reviews the progress of the PFI, Procure21 and NHS LIFT programmes and
provides an update of schemes built since 2004.
- Focus on the different clinical areas - modernisation of GP surgeries,
‘one stop shop' healthcare centres and treatment centres and the
introduction of a new wave of community hospitals.
- NHS commissioning now accounts for around 12.5% (£335 million) of
independent acute sector revenues in 2005-06.
- The pace of growth is likely to moderate and healthcare expenditure beyond
April 2008 will be set within the framework of the next 2007 Comprehensive
Spending Review, which is expected to allocate less money to new hospital
programmes.
- There are likely to be future changes to healthcare facilities
characterized by an overall shift of resources from hospitals to
‘practice based care' in smaller, community-based facilities.
- Key drivers and future prospects for the healthcare contracting market.
Key areas of coverage in the report include:-
THE STATE HEALTHCARE MARKET IN THE UK
- Structure and Reform of the NHS, including restructuring of PCTs and SHAs.
- Legislative Drivers and Policy Issues shaping the way in which care is
being delivered.
- Overview of the Primary Care Sector, including provision of GP surgeries,
treatment centres, walk-in centres, dental provision.
- An overview of the Secondary/Acute care sector, including foundation
hospitals and plans to increase the provision of foundation trusts and
community hospitals and in the UK.
- Healthcare spending in the UK, including total healthcare spending, NHS
budgets and primary care spending.
THE PRIVATE ACUTE HEALTHCARE MARKET IN THE UK
- Structure and size of the private acute healthcare sector in the UK.
- Increasing partnership of the private sector with the NHS.
- Acute Hospital provision & leading independent providers.
CONTRACTORS OUTPUT IN THE HEALTHCARE MARKET
- Value of construction new work output.
- Construction output by sector in 2006.
- Construction output in 2007 and Beyond.
- Analysis of contractors output in the public healthcare sector.
- Outlook for Healthcare Construction Work.
- The NHS Building Programme/Primary Healthcare Estate in the UK.
- Capital Expenditure in the NHS.
- Healthcare Work Output - Government Targets & Progress to Date.
PROCUREMENT OF HEALTHCARE CONSTRUCTION WORK
- Overview of principal procurement routes used in the NHS.
- The Private Finance Initiative - background, market size, progress to
date, leading contractors.
- NHS LIFT - background, investment, scheme update & progress, principal
consortia, future of NHS Lift
- Procure 21 - background, investment, scheme update & progress, future of
Procure 21, PSCPs.
- The effect of Government policy on PFI, NHS LIFT and Procure21.
CONTRACTOR PROFILES
- Structure and size of the contracting industry.
- Key construction companies and contractors.
- Private sector consortia in healthcare.
- Contractor profiles - key contractors operating in the healthcare market.
- Healthcare developers - companies specialising in GP and primary care
premises investment and development.