United Healthcare acts as PFI Equipping Advisors to NHS Trusts on major PFI Hospital developments in the UK. This role generally includes the following tasks:

Consider and advise on the financial and legal aspects and implications of a Managed Equipment Service within the PFI project.

Compile a complete schedule of equipment requirements from the (draft) schedules of accommodation and advise when and how to share this information with bidders.

Prepare an indicative bill of quantities, using he schedule of equipment requirements and the United Healthcare pricing database, in order to reinforce the cost assumptions in the public sector comparator and generate indicative cost information for different categories of equipment.

Assist the PFI Team to compile a matrix of equipment responsibilities and prepare an outline of considerations.

Advise the project Team, the Trust’s Head of Equipment Maintenance, Service Redesign Groups and/or appropriate clinical and technical staff on the writing of output specifications for equipment items to be provided by the Project Co. and review the completed output specifications.

Assist the Trust to refine its equipping strategy and prepare the necessary documentation for the FITN.

Assist/direct the Trust to undertake an equipment audit/condition survey and bar coding of equipment, to reconcile the fixed asset register with the maintenance department database and to compile a complete schedule of information for the FITN

Assist the Trust to prepare a programme of equipment replacements over the interim period and a schedule of potentially transferable equipment. Prepare a Service Level Specification for maintenance and replacement of all equipment (Medical, Technical and Non-Technical) to fit the Trust’s chosen strategy.

Advise the Trust on suitable Performance Monitoring relating to equipment matters, and evaluate the consortia response and methods.

Provide a technical assessment of the equipping proposals contained in the consortia’s response to the FITN.