Upcoming Workshop

2024 EuHPN Workshop

Join us in Barcelona, 25-27 September 2024

Making Choices for Investment in Healthcare Infrastructure

by the support of CatSalut


Making Choices for Investment in Healthcare Infrastructure

Healthcare infrastructure investment:  choices and priorities

Why invest in healthcare infrastructure?  To make services safer?  To improve diagnostic capacity?  To use the latest technologies?  To give patients a better experience?  To ensure that staff can work to their full potential?  To be more productive?  To save money on maintenance?  To encourage greater service integration? To support ambitions for sustainability and local economic development?

So many competing priorities … complicated further by the interplay between national, regional and local aims, the frequent lack of capital, and the need to shift internal stakeholders’ thinking from solving today’s spatial problems towards concepts such as ‘less bricks, more bytes and different behaviour’.

Using evidence

Against this background, the 2024 EuHPN workshop is going to focus on understanding how to make some key choices in healthcare capital investment, by examining evidence on how these can support four important and interlinked areas:

·       Improving the nature of clinical and non-clinical work, by supporting changes to models of care, working practices, communications between staff and patients, efficiencies through technology adoption.

·       Supporting health systems to offer sustainability and social value, by leading system-wide efforts to a low or zero carbon economy, acting as innovation hubs, and providing population well-being services.

·       Integrating hospitals with the wider system of health and care, by networking hospitals, providing environments for holistic care, and offering services closer to home.

·       Understanding best practice and business cases for refurbishment and reconfiguration of existing facilities, when capital is constrained or sustainability considerations favour reuse.

The 2024 EuHPN workshop will examine these topics to understand the trade-offs inherent in decisions about capital investment in healthcare infrastructure, and how to avoid pitfalls and risks, maximise benefits, and evaluate the outcomes of investments.  We will draw on lessons from health facility planning, healthcare architecture and engineering, academic studies, the construction industry and capital investment experts. 

The 2024 workshop programme

Catalonia has recently invested significantly in a new and reconfigured healthcare estate, across the hospital and primary/community care sectors.  The lessons from this programme of investment will provide an important anchor point for the workshop, but, as ever, we will compare and contrast with experiences across Europe and beyond.  The 25th and 26th September will have a mix of keynote speakers and presenters, with sessions on each of the four sub-themes.  We also hope to incorporate a mini-study tour to a local health facility.

On the 27th September participants can take part in a more extensive, optional tour of different hospital sites in and around Barcelona.

As ever, the workshop will welcome – as speakers, panel members and audience participants – a range of health system policy makers, healthcare facility planners, design and engineering professionals, estates managers, clinicians and academics. 

In addition to the formal programme, participants will have ample opportunity to network with others during coffee breaks and lunches, and at the workshop dinner to be held during the evening of Wednesday 25th September.

We are delighted to have the support of CatSalut, the Catalan Health Authority, for the 2024 workshop. 


Workshop costs

The discounted 2024 workshop fee, for EuHPN members and associates, will be EUR 350.00.  The fee for non-members will be EUR 400.  There will be an additional cost of EUR 80.00 per person for the workshop dinner on 25th September, and a EUR 50.00 fee, per person, for the optional tours on 27th September.

Registration and your contribution

We invite you – our members, associates, supporters and sponsors – to register your interest in contributing to the 2024 workshop, on one or more of the four sub-themes outlined above.  To do so, please contact us via info@euhpn.eu

We really look forward to your participation and contribution at the 2024 EuHPN workshop, 25 - 27 September.

Sponsorship opportunities

EuHPN workshops attract a broad range of professionals, from Europe and beyond, including architects, engineers, health policy and health system financing experts, senior clinicians and directors of healthcare organisations.  They share a common interest in how best to plan, design and build all kinds of healthcare infrastructure.  We welcome interest from potential sponsors who would like to be part of our event.  If your organisation would like to support us, please contact us on info@euhpn.eu.

Hospital and Recinte Modernista Sant Pau

 Venue

Sant Pau Art Nouveau Site

The 2024 workshop will take place in Barcelona, Catalonia, and our venue will be the Sant Pau Foundation (https://santpaubarcelona.org/), the modernist masterpiece hospital campus that now reborn as a cultural and conference centre in the heart of the city.

After more than a century as the home of the Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, an ambitious restoration project following the transfer of all healthcare activities to the new Hospital has restored the cultural and artistic glories of the Sant Pau Art Nouveau Site, the most important work of Catalan architect Lluís Domènech i Montaner.

The restoration of the Modernista pavilions, which were declared World Heritage by UNESCO in 1997, has provided the starting point for an active cultural programme whose main objective is to further our appreciation of this treasure of European Art Nouveau. Lluís Domènech i Montaner and his contribution to the Modernista movement, together with the institutional and heritage value of Sant Pau and its contribution to medicine are the key elements of this programme.

The Sant Pau Foundation offers high quality conference facilities and an unrivalled location in the heart of Barcelona, close to metro stations and other public transport links.  The new Sant Pau hospital is also close by, and we hope to offer a mini-tour of this campus during the main programme of the workshop.

 

Accomodation


More information soon.


Call for Presentations

Making Choices for Investment in Healthcare Infrastructure

25-27 September, Barcelona

The 2024 EuHPN workshop will focus on how we make choices about investments in healthcare infrastructure, through investigating four linked topics:

1.       Improving the nature of clinical and non-clinical work, by supporting changes to models of care, working practices, communications between staff and patients, efficiencies through technology adoption.

2.       Supporting health systems to offer sustainability and social value, by leading system-wide efforts to a low or zero carbon economy, acting as innovation hubs, and providing population well-being services.

3.       Integrating hospitals with the wider system of health and care, by networking hospitals, providing environments for holistic care, and offering services closer to home.

4.       Understanding best practice and business cases for refurbishment and reconfiguration of existing facilities, when capital is constrained or sustainability considerations favour reuse.

 

We are looking forward to welcoming speakers from across Europe, representing the worlds of healthcare system planning and finance, healthcare architecture and engineering, health facility construction, and healthcare infrastructure research. If YOU would like to contribute, with a case study or research findings, please fill out the form below or contact us via info@euhpn.eu


 

Register Your Attendance

We are delighted that you would like to register to attend the 2024 EuHPN workshop.

Please complete the information below. The participation fee for the workshop is Euro 350.00 for members of affiliated EuHPN organisations, and Euro 400.00 for other participants. This includes coffee breaks and lunches on the 25 th and 26 th March.

The workshop dinner will be held on Wednesday 25 th September; this has an additional fee of Euro 80.00 for all participants.

Invoices for the workshop fee(s) will be issued once your registration form has been received. If there is a need to limit numbers at the workshop, the workshop dinner or the study tours, we will process registrations in the order they are received and will not invoice until we can guarantee a place.

We intend to offer the options of study tours during Friday 27 th September, which will incur an additional charge of Euro 50.00, (please see the draft programme for current details). We will register and invoice participants separately for the study tours, once the details have been finalized.