Bellrock is a supplier to a number of key frameworks such as the Crown Commercial Services, Efficiency East Midlands (EEM), GCloud, for our Concerto software, Crescent Purchasing Consortium, and the Fusion21Framework for CAFM, estate and facilities management.
Your Sector
Bellrock works with organisations across all industry sectors where the quality of the workplace and compliance are essential. Whether creating an effective compliance regime and maintenance plans for critical assets or managing the extensive HTM (Health Technical Memoranda) indicators, our knowledge and experience helps organisations streamline processes and drive efficiencies.
Education
The education sector is made up of five stages, comprising early years, primary, secondary, further education and higher education. The UK contains nearly 33,000 schools, of which 1,170 are part of a multi academy trust. Within these schools, 500,000 teachers educate 10.3 million students at compulsory education level. In addition, there are 381 further education colleges and 142 universities providing follow-up education at an advanced level.
Addressing the challenges
- Our IDEA model provides a rich data framework for assessing and developing estate maturity over time, which will help take estates on a journey towards an optimised state, providing better conditions for stakeholders, lower emissions for the environment, and cost savings to help ensure as much budget as possible is spent on educational delivery
- Concerto is IoT enabled, allowing the use of sensors to reduce energy and water usage, thereby saving money and lowering carbon emissions
- Energy management is enabled within Concerto so we can help to actively track energy usage across the estate, reducing costs and carbon emissions
- Our service charge and insurance experts can help to ensure value for money and advise on estate usage, thereby reducing outgoings or maximising income through leasing or sale
- Analytics provide a clear view of estate condition, providing the foundations to make data-driven decisions regarding budgeting and estate strategy
- And of course, ensuring compliance with legal requirements, for example, SFG20, whilst also maximising the experience for employees, students, visitors and the environment
All these areas of expertise help to ensure that estate risk is minimised, compliance is maintained and value for money is maximised
Healthcare
Health and Social Care in the UK is predominantly delivered through NHS services, which are free at the point of use. The NHS has an annual budget of £214bn, with private healthcare adding an additional £35bn, so healthcare expenditure is vast. Equally large is the number of employees in the sector, with an approximate 2 million people working in health and social care, proving us all with vital services.
Sector facts
Bellrock has a history of providing services to the healthcare sector
- 17% of Bellrock’s revenue
- Nearly 200 healthcare organisations have been supported across the group
- Concerto manages over 60k planned and reactive jobs per annum
- £7m in supplier spend controlled through Concerto
- Market leading supplier of asset surveys to the NHS
Understanding the challenges
At present the largest challenge facing healthcare is of course COVID-19
- COVID has increased the requirement for healthcare services, plus reduced clinical capacity due to social-distancing measures required to prevent infection
- This reduced clinical capacity also applies to surgery, and the resulting increased waiting lists, combined with potential supply chain issues post-Brexit, means that patients are waiting longer for routine operations and as such the patient experience is of key importance
- On top of this, COVID has massively increased Government expenditure whilst at the same time reduced tax revenues, meaning healthcare budgets are likely to be squeezed further in future.
- The NHS has a large and technical estate with buildings having massively different age profiles from old Victorian wards to modern state of the art buildings containing highly complex equipment. These buildings must deliver a great patient experience and ensure compliance with maintenance requirements
All these challenges have impacts on estate and facilities management and Bellrock is uniquely positioned to address these issues across the healthcare sector.
Addressing the challenges
- Our IDEA model provides a framework for assessing and developing estate maturity over time, which will help take healthcare estates on a journey towards an optimised state, providing better conditions for patients, lower emissions for the environment and cost savings to help ensure as much budget as possible is spent on health and social care delivery
- Concerto is IOT enabled, allowing the use of sensors to reduce energy and water usage, thereby saving money and lowering carbon emissions
- Energy management is enabled within Concerto so we can help to actively track energy usage across the estate
- Our team of qualified surveyors are leading providers of six facet surveys across the NHS. These provide good baseline information for an Estates Strategy, can assist property transfer and are consistent with the updated NHS Premises Assurance Model (PAM), the updated ERIC Returns, and the Carter and Naylor Reviews.
- To help maximise budgets, our service charge and insurance experts can help to ensure value for money and advise on estate usage, thereby reducing outgoings or maximising income through leasing or sale of unused land or property
- Analytics provide a clear view of estate condition, providing the foundations to make data-driven decisions regarding budgeting and estate strategy
- And of course, ensuring compliance with legal requirements, for example SFG20, whilst also maximising the experience for employees, patients, visitors, and the environment
All these areas of expertise help to ensure that estate risk is minimised, compliance is maintained and value for money is maximised.