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Get the data and insight needed for your Neighbourhood Health Centre

NHS Open Space is the digital space management solution developed by NHS Property Services for the entire NHS

As the NHS shifts more care into communities, estate leaders face a critical challenge: ensuring Neighbourhood Health Centres (NHCs) are designed, managed and optimised to deliver the greatest value for patients.

NHS Open Space, developed by NHS Property Services, 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 performance once operational, NHS Open Space provides the utilisation data and analytics needed to maximise every square metre of your estate.

How NHS Open Space can support your NHC

Understand if your estate is ready to deliver an NHC

Many NHS organisations rely on assumptions when making decisions about space. Yet utilisation monitoring consistently reveals significant untapped capacity within existing buildings. NHS Open Space provides detailed visibility of how rooms, desks and buildings are actually being used. Enabling estate leaders to:

Assess whether an existing building is suitable for an NHC
Identify opportunities to reconfigure or repurpose space
Understand current and future capacity requirements
Avoid unnecessary capital expenditure
Make confident, data-driven estate decisions

Get full visibility of utilisation within your NHC

The success of an NHC depends on how effectively its space is managed over time. NHS Open Space provides ongoing utilisation monitoring that gives estate teams a clear view of how services are using space across any building. This allows you to:

Monitor utilisation trends over time
Understand demand patterns and service activity
Identify underused or oversubscribed areas
Support multiple services operating from the same location
Measure the effectiveness of your NHC

How much of your estate is really being used?

Utilisation monitoring has uncovered significant untapped capacity across NHS buildings, challenging long-held assumptions about space demand.

Download the brochure to explore the data, learn from real NHS case studies, and discover how organisations have used utilisation insights to avoid unnecessary capital projects, increase service provision and optimise their estate.

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