Healthcare organisations of all types are being forced to rethink and re-engineer traditional business models to keep pace with demographic and lifestyle trends, fiscal constraints and rapidly advancing technology. The sector is highly regulated and subject to shifts in national and local policy. Health and social care providers are required to demonstrate national minimum standards through compliance with the Care Standards Act 2000. A business prognosis will help you to evaluate strengths and areas in need of development to ensure the right decisions are made about your new or existing business. Whether your business is flourishing and ready for expansion or in trouble and in need of a survival assessment. AECOM’s Healthcare Business Progress tool, designed by our healthcare professionals, will provide a holistic and insightful assessment of your business, helping you to better understand its performance and potential. About Dean Jones Dean is an Associate in AECOM’s Programme Leadership Practice. Dean joined AECOM from Care UK, the UK's largest independent provider of health and social care, where he was a Programme Manager and delivered a £250m investment growth programme over 2012/15 which increased Care Uk’s number of homes circa 33%. Dean was also Programme Manager for a £60m Suffolk programme to build ten new care homes and ten day clubs, bringing much needed additional nursing and specialist dementia care to the Suffolk community. The new homes and day clubs will eventually replace Suffolk County Council’s existing homes and well being centres which date mainly from the 1960s and 1970s. Dean also has experience working in Local Councils as their Project Manager for regeneration and community projects.

1. HEALTHCARE
BUSINESS PROGNOSIS
Healthcare organisations of all types are
being forced to rethink and re-engineer
traditional business models to keep pace
with demographic and lifestyle trends, fiscal
constraints and rapidly advancing technology.
The sector is highly regulated and subject
to shifts in national and local policy. Health
and social care providers are required to
demonstrate national minimum standards
through compliance with the Care Standards
Act 2000.
The value of your business depends
significantly on your ability to demonstrate
high standards in resident care, quality of
the working environment, staffing levels,
professional management and processes
and procedures.
MAKING THE RIGHT DECISIONS
A business prognosis will help you to evaluate
strengths and areas in need of development
to ensure the right decisions are made about
your new or existing business. Whether
your business is flourishing and ready for
expansion or in trouble and in need of a survival
assessment. AECOM’s Healthcare Business
Progress tool, designed by our healthcare
professionals, will provide a holistic and
insightful assessment of your business, helping
you to better understand its performance
and potential.

2. ABOUT AECOM
Across the UK + Ireland our healthcare teams provide
professional planning, design and management
services through a fully integrated single business
approach.This allows us to focus on reducing client
risk, improving value and assuring outcomes on
projects throughout the asset lifecycle. Our capability
is further enhanced as teams draw on AECOM’s global
network, comprising close to 100,000 people across
150 countries, enabling them to call on a vast pool of
knowledge, creativity and technical excellence.
OUR APPROACH
We provide an assessment service of a single business
or a multi-property portfolio. We use an approach
that is shaped by industry standards and one that
engages with a wide range of internal and external
stakeholders critical to your business including
staff, patients and their families. On completion we
will provide a high level “business prognosis” with
recommendations where appropriate. We also offer a
wide range of services tailored to meet your
business requirements..
The Healthcare Business Prognosis will focus on:
Estate management
ƒƒ Property assessment: basic compliance checks,
development potential.
Commercial
ƒƒ Assessment on financial management
ƒƒ Marketing assessment to optimise occupancy levels
and turnover
ƒƒ Competition analysis
ƒƒ Socio-demographic analysis
ƒƒ Supply and demand assessment.
Quality
ƒƒ Customer service, operations.
Business growth
ƒƒ Assessment on risk management, organizational
management, stakeholder management,
management control, expertise, resource.
The information captured within the Healthcare
Business Prognosis assessment will also help you
demonstrate compliance with the Care Quality
Commission Compliance under the Health and Social
Care Act 2008 and the Care Standards Act 2000.
Acquisitions
If an assessment is requested for a recently acquired
business, AECOM’s Healthcare Business Prognosis will
focus on:
ƒƒ Regulatory record
ƒƒ Background, business style and culture
ƒƒ Estate condition
ƒƒ Areas in need of improvement.
Our services cover virtually every aspect of healthcare
facility development and asset management. From
initial economic market research and cost modelling
through to design, project management, delivery and
innovative estate management strategies, acquisition
and disposal. Projects range from fitness and wellbeing
centres, local community health centres and care homes
through to some of the UK’s most technologically-
advanced hospitals, specialist cancer centres and
global centres of excellence in medical research.
For more information on the Healthcare Business Prognosis
or to arrange a consultation, please contact:
Dean Jones D: +44 (0)1727 535000
Programme Consulting M: +44 (0)7341 129282
AECOM E: dean.jones@aecom.com
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