Our Services

Estates maintenance

Keeping healthcare running

Our highly skilled team of engineers, tradespeople and helpdesk operatives work around the clock, every day of the year, to ensure the buildings and facilities within our clients’ footprint are safe, secure and welcoming for everybody.

Our clients rely on our expertise and service delivery both in our acute and community estate.

Delivering all facets of hard facilities management, we ensure our clients’ buildings are fully maintained and running at optimum standards whilst complying with all legislation and governance requirements.

Our comprehensive fully managed service, covers multiple disciplines, including but not limited to:

Building maintenance, including minor new works and refurbishment
Energy and sustainability
Fire and security
Electrical infrastructure management and maintenance
Grounds maintenance
Mechanical engineering

Our continuous improvement programme and interface with other Atlas and clients’ teams, means that we have a joined-up and integrated approach, futureproofing our clients’ estates for years to come.

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides the population of the Fylde coast and the millions of holidaymakers that visit each year, with a comprehensive range of acute and community hospital services.

Our operations management service is essential to keep the hospital functioning.

With more than 36,000 reactive and planned preventative maintenance (PPM) tasks within our remit per annum, our teams work around the clock every day of the year to ensure the buildings within our clients’ footprint are safe, secure and welcoming for everybody.

Facilities management

First impressions matter

Integrating people, place, process and technology – our facilities management encompasses multiple disciplines to ensure functionality, comfort, safety and efficiency of the built environment.

A key enabler to the functions that need to happen throughout the journeys of all those who use buildings, facilities management is vital to the operability of a facility.

The services under our facilities management umbrella are:

Community building management
Community health centre cleaning
Community hospital services
Support services
Transport

Capital developments

Creating, developing and future proofing

Our Capital Developments team creates efficient, sustainable, modern healthcare and working environments for our major client, Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Through the planning and delivery of minor and major construction projects, our project managers plan and deliver the development of new and the refurbishment of existing buildings workspaces and departments.

Enhancing the experience for patients, service users, staff and visitors

Our client-centric approach to future proofing the Trust’s estate is achieved through meticulous project planning, which involves working seamlessly with our client, stakeholders and business units, especially our estates maintenance and facilities management teams.

Medical engineering

Ensuring patients safety

Medical engineering services are crucial to the day-to-day running of acute and community healthcare facilities.

Our medical engineering offering provides a comprehensive, cost-effective, around the clock service to our clients in the NHS and private health care providers, covering all aspects of medical device management from its purchase to decommissioning.

We achieve this by bringing together a fully-managed medical maintenance contracts service, a comprehensive medical equipment library and a highly-skilled team of medical engineers; all supported by an organised supply chain and store.

Our problem-solving team of engineers diagnose, repair and maintain more than 20,000 individual pieces of medical equipment each year.

The hands-on role, performed by our highly-skilled engineers ensures that the wide-range of equipment within our care, ranging from blood pressure monitors, to highly specialised and intricate equipment such as anaesthetic machines and critical care ventilators are working properly, and are safe.

It is this dedication and skill, that protects our clients’ staff and patients alike.

Property services

Enabling effective property management

Our Property Services team are responsible for managing more than 150,000 m² of acute and more than 30,000m² of community building space for our healthcare clients ensuring that all issues related to occupancy are managed in an effective and efficient manner.

The work performed by our team covers the end-to-end property life cycle working with clients from the identification of a need through the stages of lease negotiation, property or land acquisitions, dilapidations management and disposal.

With expertise in project management, healthcare building occupancy design and management and data analysis – our team research, manage and maintain a suite of property management information for our clients. This facilitates the submission of all mandatory reporting requirements, including hospital estates and facilities statistics and in particular ERIC submissions.

Our Property Services team enables our clients, as well as the wider Atlas teams to manage their functions effectively ensuring that they maximise the available space in their built environment and investment decisions within buildings are appropriately aligned.

Commercial and procurement

As part of our fully-managed healthcare facility solution we provide an end-to-end procurement management service from purchase requisition through to invoice payment relating to goods and services used within the facility. Our management service includes the management of inventory and minimum stock holding levels.

The Estates Team