LIVING LAB
King’s College Foundation Trust is demonstrating how tackling the NHS estate challenge with a light-touch retrofit can optimise old buildings to improve space utilisation, enhance the patient experience, and reduce costs for our healthcare service.
King’s College Foundation Trust: Outpatient Services
Government Priority
Patient flow
Setting Category
Secondary care
Setting type
Hospital outpatient department
Why this matters
Large, complex estates are the highest cost to the NHS. They face significant challenges from ageing infrastructure and operational constraints to poor space utilisation and inefficient energy usage.
This Living Lab demonstrates how to digitise existing infrastructure using cost-effective, non-disruptive solutions. Leveraging existing systems and smart capabilities, including space booking, occupancy analytics, and environmental monitoring, we can generate real-time insights and improve the patient experience.
Implementing secure digital solutions
This Living Lab explores technologies and approaches, including:
Environmental sensing
Scheduling
Room booking
Visitor management
Wayfinding
Through collaboration and real-world testing, this Living Lab:
Creating better outcomes
Increases operational efficiency and productivity
Contributes to NHS sustainability and greener agenda initiatives
Promotes digital infrastructure development and innovation
Leverages technology for better outcomes
The King’s College Foundation Trust Living Lab brings together NHS, technology partners and academic researchers to co-design, test and evaluate digital solutions before wider adoption.
Who's involved
The latest insights
Get involved
Interested in contributing to the King's College Foundation Trust Living Lab? Get in touch to discuss collaboration opportunities, research or new challenges.
