October 2010
1 post
Quantifying the Benefits of Healthcare...
We recently presented our interpretation of some recent NHSScotland capital project business cases to the 2010 HaCIRIC Conference. The paper went down well with most of the delegates.
Here’s our presentation:
HaCIRIC Conference Presentation
And the paper’s abstract:
QUANTIFYING THE BENEFITS OF HEALTHCARE INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT D. Thomson , L. Pronk , C. Alalouch , A....
April 2010
1 post
Exploring the nature of benefits in NHSScotland...
We’ve recently written a paper looking at how benefits are operationalised in NHSScotland’s current capital investment programmes. Very interesting as we found that what happens on the ground is not really what the guidance suggests. Perhaps more illustrative is the nature of the issues we tackled in reaching this conclusion, as illustrated by the paper’s word cloud:
Anyway, here are...
September 2009
1 post
August 2009
2 posts
The starting point
Hello everyone… I would like first, before diving in the project, to introduce myself. I am Dr. Chaham Alalouch and I came from architectural background. I have got my PhD (title: ‘Hospital Ward Design: Implications for Space and Privacy’) from the School of the Built environment, Heriot-Watt University. My area of interest lies in the relationship between the architectural environment and human...
Hello.
Welcome to the “Benefits Quantification” project in the School of the Built Environment at Heriot-Watt University. This study is funded by the EPSRC through the Health and Care Infrastructure Research and Innovation Centre (HaCIRIC) of Imperial, Reading, Salford and Loughborough Universities. We hope that this worklog will be a useful track of things we have looked at; things we...