Improving Healthcare through Built Environment Infrastructure

This edited book addresses the crucial issue of healthcare delivery from a Built Environment Perspective. 
Past books and investigations in the area of healthcare delivery have concentrated on either the medical aspects or the design issues of buildings but none has considered the ‘meeting space’ of built environment technologies and modern methods of procurement with the medical and operational needs of healthcare settings. 

This book addresses some of the key issues related to healthcare delivery in relation to capital investment and infrastructure, design and operations management theories and their application to healthcare. It also considers new products recently developed such as the LIFT schemes as well as public-private partnerships and how these operate in the context of healthcare delivery.

The book takes into account important issues related to the devolution of health and care from acute and secondary care to the primary, intermediary and home care. 

The author has brought together key industrialists and academics, all heavily involved in the formulation and delivery of new practices. Case studies illustrate how policies and healthcare models are implemented in practice and help identify the key challenges for the future.