inverness city vision: health facilities spatial analysis

Part One• mapping population distribution• mapping the existing health facilities• analysing ease of access to facilities

Part Two• exploring existing provision against growth scenarios

Inverness - Healthy City Project

• Acute Inpatient including A+E – somewhere between their level 4 and 5 facility – serving a population of over 300,000 people– drawing from the city and beyond. (some of the facilities in NI’s level 5 facility are provided elsewhere in Scotland such as children’s centres in Aberdeen, Glasgow and Edinburgh): Raigmore

• Acute day services – similar to their level 3 facility – serving about 100,000 people – drawing from the city and beyond. RNI

• Intermediate care – similar to their level 2 facility - serving about 30,000 people, located at public transport interchanges.

• GP premises – similar to their level 1 facility, let’s say serving up to 5,000 people. The other limiting factor in mapping should be the practice should be within 10 minutes walking distance from the housing it serves (otherwise the car’s involved in every visit even if the person’s able to walk)

Health facilities: basic thresholds

Inverness – structure and extent

Inverness – population

Inverness – population

Inverness – existing health provision - hospitals

Inverness – existing health provision hospitals+ GPs and 10 minute walking distance

Inverness – existing health provision hospitals+ GPs and 10 minute walking distance

Inverness – existing health provision hospitals+ GPs and 10 minute walking distance + population

• Raigmore is a level 4-5 facility - Acute Inpatient including A+E • the RNI is a level 3 facility - Acute day services - centrally placed but

disconnected from public transport• there is no level 2 facility in the city• the core of the town has a good provision of GP facilities within 10 minutes

walking distance but the fringes are less well served• the provision of GP facilities is not mapped into the population in that many

people will not go to the nearest GP but one that has space or for other reasons

Health facilities: locational analysis

Inverness – future growth:Scenario 1: business as usual (pre-recession)

Inverness – future growth: populationScenario 1: business as usual (pre-recession)

Inverness – future growth: required provisionScenario 1: business as usual (pre-recession)

Inverness – future growth:Scenario 2: polycentric development

Inverness – future growth: populationScenario 2: polycentric development

Inverness – future growth: retrofitting provisionScenario 2: polycentric development

Inverness – future growth: higher densityScenario 3: public sector led development

Inverness – future growth: higher densityScenario 3: public sector led development

Inverness – future growth: higher density + retrofittingScenario 3: public sector led development