The NHS 10 Year Health Plan sets out three major shifts in healthcare: from hospital to community, from treatment to prevention, and from analogue to digital. NHS Open Space, the digital space management solution developed by the NHS, supports each of these shifts by helping the NHS make better use of its existing estate.
By connecting people, space and data, it enables more flexible access to healthcare environments, supports the delivery of care closer to communities and provides the digital tools to manage and optimise space more effectively.
Prevention in practice
NHS Open Space supports the shift from treatment to prevention by enabling preventative services to flexibly book space within local healthcare environments.
Through the booking platform, estate leaders can make space available to a range of preventative healthcare services. Helping providers access the facilities they need, while increasing utilisation of existing estate and expanding access to preventative care for patients.
Already, 170 organisations have delivered 4.4m+ preventative services patient consultations across 210+ locations nationwide, helping make prevention part of everyday healthcare in communities.
Powering the shift to community care
Through its booking platform, NHS Open Space connects estate leaders with healthcare providers looking for space to deliver care. Supporting the move from hospital-based care to more accessible, community-based services.
By showcasing available rooms on a national platform, providers can book space across multiple NHS locations. Giving patients access to a broader range of services, locally.
To date, NHS Open Space has enabled 11m+ patient consultations across 250+ NHS locations in England. With 8,000+ healthcare professionals registered, it's helping maximise the potential of existing NHS estate while delivering more care closer to communities.
Supporting a digitally-enabled NHS
NHS Open Space helps you make the shift from analogue to digital by transforming how healthcare space is managed.
Replace manual processes with a secure, self-service booking system. Gain real-time visibility of how space is being used. Turn data into actionable insight to optimise your estate and unlock capacity.
Whether you’re delivering a Neighbourhood Health Centre (NHC) or managing space across the wider healthcare estate, NHS Open Space helps you create a more flexible, efficient and connected approach to delivering care.
Unlock the full potential of your estate
Healthcare organisations are under increasing pressure to deliver more services from existing buildings. NHS Open Space helps you understand, manage and optimise your estate through digital space management.
Download our brochure to discover how NHS organisations are increasing utilisation, improving productivity and unlocking value from their estate — backed by real NHS success stories.
Take control of your estate
The 10 Year Health Plan sets out the need to bring together multiple services, providers and teams to deliver more joined-up care closer to communities. But managing shared space across different organisations can quickly become complex. Whether you’re managing a single NHC or a wider portfolio, NHS Open Space provides the tools to give you complete visibility and control of your space.
One system, two powerful ways to manage space
NHCs rely on flexible, shared use of space. NHS Open Space makes that possible with a simple, secure booking system to manage clinical and non-clinical spaces across your estate, 24/7.
Where space is still underused, you can make rooms available to a network of over 8,000 pre-vetted healthcare professionals through the external booking platform. Enabling you to increase utilisation, generate additional revenue and expand local services.
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More flexible space. More local services. Better patient access. NHS Open Space helps you make every room work harder for communities.
Watch the videoWhy NHS Open Space?
£45m+
value unlocked
for the wider NHS system
£6m+
additional revenue generated
through third party bookings
£4m
of costs
avoided by identifying capacity within the existing estate
800,000+
bookings
processed to date
Turn booking data into meaningful insight
NHS Open Space gives you a powerful, data-driven view of your estate. With the booking system, you get access to a suite of customisable reports. From booking data to financial performance. Enhance your booking data with utilisation monitoring and get more in-depth insights into tenant and customer usage within your estate.
Make data-led decisions about your estate
Our utilisation monitoring helps you make informed, evidence-based decisions about how space is used.
Whether you’re assessing an existing building’s suitability for an NHC, planning future service delivery, or monitoring estate performance, NHS Open Space provides the utilisation data and analytics needed to maximise every square metre.
How much of your space is really being used?
Utilisation monitoring has uncovered significant untapped capacity across NHS buildings, challenging long-held assumptions about space demand.
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Combined with NHS Property Services’ end-to-end service offer, you can turn booking data into practical action that supports long-term planning and better patient outcomes.
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