title: Master planning--a new way forward?
abstract: Bob Heavisides, director of facilities, Milton Keynes Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, and senior research fellow, Medical Architecture Research Unit (MARU), at London South Bank University, considers, in a précis of a paper presented at last year's Healthcare Estates conference, how a new master planning approach may bring significant benefits to the healthcare estate, arguing that, against today's fast-changing backdrop, typical existing estates strategies may no longer be fully "fit-for-purpose".
authors.affiliation: Milton Keynes Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
authors.forename: Bob
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Heavisides
mesh_terms: D005160:Facility Design and Construction / Q000639:trends; D010934:Planning Techniques; D013222:State Medicine / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006113:United Kingdom