title: Smaller, leaner estate--making it happen.
abstract: Conor Ellis, sector head, Health UK, at built asset consultancy, EC Harris, discusses how NHS Trusts in England can adopt an estates strategy that not only sees available space optimally matched with future clinical need, but equally, to secure maximum 'value' from their existing estate, sees under-utilised, ageing, or simply no longer serviceable buildings, sold, or developed for 'alternative use'. Where such a review has not been undertaken for at least three years, hesuggests conducting a 'six-facet' survey to establish the 'condition and suitability'of assets, 'as an effective tool for managing estate in an informed manner'.
authors.affiliation: EC Harris.
authors.forename: Conor
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Ellis
mesh_terms: D017598:Efficiency, Organizational / Q000191:economics*; D005160:Facility Design and Construction; D006779:Hospitals, Public / Q000191:economics*; D010067:Ownership; D013222:State Medicine; D006113:United Kingdom