Case Study: Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
“OccupEye has changed the way that meetings and conversations start.
 It’s no longer about can we, it’s we can. Here is the evidence to prove it!”
Client: Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Project: The on going monitoring of clinical space, reception and meeting rooms in order to see where services can be better facilitated.
Expectations of the NHS and the services they provide face constant scrutiny. With budgets being cut annually for many trusts, it is important for facilities managers to ensure services are situated in the right place, with sufficient space for the service which they provide.
One of the main objectives for Derbyshire was to reduce underutilised space, which was costing the trust large amounts of money in terms of maintenance and running costs. The trust has some excellent facilities, so an additional aim was to make the best use of the already existing space within the trusts property portfolio. Ian Johnson, Facilities Manager at the trust stated “We’ve done studies in some of our newer premises, the biggest one we did was 27 meeting and clinic rooms. That’s a new building that’s not going anywhere, with really good facilities and a long lease, so we needed to make the best use of it”.
“You wouldn't be able to provide those answers without the OccupEye dashboard and the information it provides.”
Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust wanted to know how often their meeting rooms and clinical spaces were actually being used. The trust had used similar technology in the past, but nothing that produced the results the trust needed in order to make informed decisions about property.
Having the evidence to support decisions about relocating staff was vital for Derbyshire.
OccupEye® has given the trust accurate data about how much of their space is actually being used, showing exactly where staff can be relocated to, without causing overcrowding. The information that OccupEye® reports have provided for the trust, have saved vast amounts of time. Ian goes on to state “Now, everything has to be proven.  You miss out the initial conversations before you can get people around the table, because we’ve already got the evidence. Rather than can we, it’s we can. Now let’s talk about how”.
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