title: 'Strategic approach' can reveal benefits.
abstract: Speaking at last October's Healthcare Estates 2010 conference in Manchester, Peter Haggarty, assistant director, Health Facilities Scotland, outlined some of the key steps and priorities for large healthcare providers seeking to establish and implement an effective asset management strategy, focusing particularly on work ongoing in this area in the Scottish public health service. While any radical change to a large healthcare organisation's existing asset management practices could be "challenging", both for the organisation itself, and for its staff, with "sufficient planning, persistence, and support", such changes could, he told delegates, often result in "unanticipated benefits". HEJ editor Jonathan Baillie reports.
authors: Jonathan
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authors: Baillie
mesh_terms: D005377:Financial Management, Hospital / Q000379:methods*; D006295:Health Resources / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006779:Hospitals, Public; D006801:Humans; D012606:Scotland