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The need for Benefits Realisation in healthcare – Creating a benefits driven culture (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Sapountzis, S., Harris, K., & Kagioglou, M. (2008, April). The need for Benefits Realisation in healthcare – Creating a benefits driven culture. Presented at 1st HaCIRIC Symposium: Redefining healthcare infrastructure, Integratingservices, technologies, and the built environment, London , UK

Transformation and change for a better health and care delivery system have been the driving forces behind UK’s government initiatives and investments during the past decade. Questions have been raised in terms of how successful these investments h... Read More about The need for Benefits Realisation in healthcare – Creating a benefits driven culture.

Benefits realisation process for healthcare (2007)
Presentation / Conference
Sapountzis, S., Harris, K., & Kagioglou, M. (2007, March). Benefits realisation process for healthcare. Presented at 4th International SCRI symposium, Salford, UK

During the past ten years in the UK, education, housing, community regeneration and healthcare in particular have witnessed a massive programme of capital investment by the government through Public Private Partnerships (PPP). There is now a need to... Read More about Benefits realisation process for healthcare.

Applications of lean thinking: a briefing document (2007)
Report
Sapountzis, S., & Kagioglou, M. (2007). Applications of lean thinking: a briefing document

This report has been put together by the Health and Care Infrastructure Research and Innovation Centre (HaCIRIC) at the University of Salford for the Department of Health. The need for the report grew out of two main simple questions, o Is Lean app... Read More about Applications of lean thinking: a briefing document.

An investigation into the development of an effective benefits realisation process for healthcare infrastructure projects
Thesis
Sapountzis, S. An investigation into the development of an effective benefits realisation process for healthcare infrastructure projects. (Thesis). University of Salford

Traditionally, healthcare infrastructure programmes and projects determine their level of success mainly against cost, quality and time of delivery, and not on the degree to which benefits or impacts are delivered. Too often people have assumed that... Read More about An investigation into the development of an effective benefits realisation process for healthcare infrastructure projects.

Modelling and simulating unplanned and urgent healthcare: the contribution of scenarios of future healthcare systems.
Presentation / Conference
Marshall-Ponting, A., Sapountzis, S., Smith, R., & Kagioglou, M. Modelling and simulating unplanned and urgent healthcare: the contribution of scenarios of future healthcare systems. Presented at 5th Annual HaCIRIC International Conference: Transforming healthcare infrastructure and services in an age of austerity., Cardiff, Wales

The current financial challenges being faced by the UK economy have meant that the NHS will have to make £20 billion of savings between 2010 and 2014 requiring it to be innovative about how it delivers healthcare. This paper presents the methodology... Read More about Modelling and simulating unplanned and urgent healthcare: the contribution of scenarios of future healthcare systems..

A multi-faceted approach to optimising a complex unplanned healthcare system
Presentation / Conference
Marshall-Ponting, A., Kobbacy, K., Sapountzis, S., & Kagioglou, M. A multi-faceted approach to optimising a complex unplanned healthcare system. Presented at International Conference on Industrial Logistics, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, University of Zagreb, Croatia

Unscheduled and urgent health care represents the largest area of activity and cost for the UK’s National Health Service (NHS). Like typical complex systems unplanned care has the features of interdependence and having structures at different scales... Read More about A multi-faceted approach to optimising a complex unplanned healthcare system.

BeReal – A benefits realisation process from planning to delivery: effective benefits realisation
Book
from planning to delivery: effective benefits realisation. Manchester, UK: University of Salford

Delivering sustainable reform within an ever changing external environment, usually reliant on a range of stakeholders stakeholders, requires a different way of thinking, a better understanding of the drivers of benefits realisation and more effe... Read More about BeReal – A benefits realisation process from planning to delivery: effective benefits realisation.

How lean principles can be applied to the development process of educational programs?
Report
Codinhoto, R., Koskela, L., Kagioglou, M., Aouad, G., Baldry, D., Tzortzopoulos Fazenda, P., …Sapountzis, S. How lean principles can be applied to the development process of educational programs?

This document outlines the scope of the proposal which will investigate the application of Lean production theory to service-based industries such as educational bodies with the view of eliminating waste i.e. eliminating redundant processes, waiting... Read More about How lean principles can be applied to the development process of educational programs?.