Benefits realisation for healthcare

Sapountzis, S; Lima, JB; Yates, KA; Kagioglou, M

Abstract

Following the emergent importance of benefits realisation applied to healthcare infrastructure and service development programs, HaCIRIC has undertaken a research
initiative targeting the development of a robust and comprehensive Benefits Realisation (BeReal©) process. The resulting model is focusing on how benefits should be elicited at the initial strategic stages, and how benefits should be deployed, managed and traced along the lifecycle of a programme so their realisation contributes to successful health outcomes.
Subsequently BeReal© aspires to be an appropriate method to drive and control the programme plan; providing tools and techniques for defining specific benefits. It also
allows the measurement and evaluation of the extent to which those benefits are delivered.
We have set ourselves the objective of identifying current best practices and demonstrate how to improve benefits realisation in healthcare infrastructure provision.
The HaCIRIC team in active collaboration with leading industry partners have undertaken various case and comparator studies not only to define a business critical
process but to set out an ideology which places benefits realisation at the heart of securing wholly integrated (collective) change.
We believe that to deliver consistent high quality infrastructure and services within an ever changing investment model requires a different level of thinking and understanding towards benefits realisation. The challenge of answering community needs through intelligent investment in infrastructure is complex and demands a deeper and inclusive awareness and appreciation of how to deliver benefits and effectively allocate resources. The BeReal© initiative seeks to contribute methodologically and intends to help spending money intelligently, working with programme and project related stakeholders, securing that the best possible benefits are obtained for the overall
healthcare communities.
This report highlights selected performed initiatives and summarises BeReal© process’s major characteristics, covering far more than the follow-up of a competitive tendering process and of the development of a traditional business case. BeReal© copes with a detailed definition of changing activities, breakdown of (needs into) benefits that drive the investment, supports decision-making, proposes the development of controlling initiatives and suggests major awareness to the implementation of corrective actions. We seek to continue innovating, stimulate learning, contributing to an increase of health
and care performance that properly answers to community needs and intelligently invests public and private resources.

Citation

Sapountzis, S., Lima, J., Yates, K., & Kagioglou, M. (2009). Benefits realisation for healthcare

• Report Type: Project Report
• Publication Date: Sep 1, 2009
• Deposit Date: Oct 17, 2011
• Publicly Available Date: Apr 5, 2016