This think-tank will unpack challenges, emerging perspectives and considerations around the tension that often exists from a planning and decision perspective with prioritizing environmentally sustainable investments without impacting the care services and patient experience vision for new expansions and developments.

• Building a viable business case and payback models for environmentally sustainable facility investments
• Trade-offs between sustainability investments and patient experience/services – implications to design and planning of facilities
• Understanding the resourcing demands with managing and maintaining electrified health facilities 
• Finding creative solutions to manage rising procurement costs without impacting facility plans, asset longevity and vision

Rod Sprenger

Director – Digital Health, New Women’s and Children’s Hospital Project
Women’s and Children’s Health Network (SA Health)

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The George Centre started by Acurio, a private healthcare group, as a clinic which expanded into day surgery and today is planning a larger general hospital and medical education hub on its journey to set up the “Camden Health and Wellness Precinct” which expands across 55,000 sq kms. This presentation will highlight the unique planning and partnerships that have enabled the success and vision of this project and discuss the challenges and solutions that have arisen along the way. You will learn about:

• The collaborative clinical services planning and strategic design process undertaken with South Western Sydney LHD’s board
• Philosophy of “Facility Design, By The Clinician For The Clinician and Community” that influenced the planning and design process.
• Overcoming challenges with achieving flexibility in facility design – example of adaptations made to maternity and paediatric ward designs & bed numbers

• Why ICT is synonymous with environmental sustainability objectives of a modern, digital hospital
• Enabling IT/OT Convergence – challenges faced and solutions developed
• Unpacking the decisions and considerations underpinning the business case for a future-focused, integrated energy 

management solution

Rod Sprenger

Director – Digital Health, New Women’s and Children’s Hospital Project
Women’s and Children’s Health Network (SA Health)

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• The critical role of operational readiness and commissioning in bridging the infrastructure designs and hospital expectations gaps
• Why shortening the term operational readiness and commissioning to “commissioning” is a fatal error 
• The need to take different approaches to greenfield and brownfield redevelopment readiness and operational commissioning

• An insight into the Health Prototyping Centre and the key projects NSW Pathology is collaborating with HI and its vendors on
• Undertaking prototypes for lab configurations through creation/simulation of low fidelity environments. workflows and clinical/medical technologies
• Lessons and opportunities for healthcare to plan, design and deliver infrastructure and care models innovation through similar prototyping efforts

Martin Canova

Executive Director Strategy & Transformation
NSW Pathology

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Since the $595.6 million Ballarat Base Hospital Redevelopment commenced, Grampians Health has become one of the largest regional health care providers in Victoria following the merger of four health services. During this time, like all health services across the country, Grampians Health also experienced unprecedented challenges as a result of the COVID19 pandemic.

Confronted with the intricate task of overseeing both the merger, redesign of clinical services, all while managing the COVID-19 crisis, this presentation chronicles the commendable efforts undertaken by Grampians Health. Key highlights of this presentation include:

• Efforts aimed to uphold program integrity, adhere to budget constraints, and simultaneously deliver adaptable, forward-looking outcomes.
• Navigating engagement challenges to drive a stakeholder-led design development process; and
• Pivoting to capture changing strategic priorities and clinical needs

Nicole Lancer

Project Director Ballarat Base Hospital Redevelopment Project
Grampians Health

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• What “digital readiness” for a hospital really means
• Understanding the challenges and considerations with building a strong ICT strategy for our new hospital environments
• How digital hospitals influence design and planning considerations across greenfield and brownfield environments
• Uniting the clinical, administration, architecture and executive vision over digital-ready hospitals of the future

Once a health facility is built, resourced and operationalized, the ability to measure the intended benefits becomes possible. This panel will see a group of leaders who’ve recently delivered projects and operationalized them reflect on how staff, clinicians and stakeholders have found the new environments and also reflect on how well the design and vision for the project has translated into community value. 

• Can you give us an idea of the facilities you have recently commissioned? 
• Reflecting on the vision v/s operational experience, what aspects of design and planning translated well? 
• What aspects needed to be changed in terms of alignment with the models of care envisioned? 
• Clinicians and patients are not builders and builders are not healthcare professionals. What challenges did you face in uniting these visions? How can we improve alignment in these perspectives?
• If you had the chance to work on another redevelopment project, what would you do differently and what would you do more of?

Leanne Creighton

Senior Director, Operational Readiness and Commissioning
Queensland Health

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Sacha Mott

Director Commissioning | Westmead Redevelopment
Western Sydney LHD

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