Why a minimum frequency of BASICS assessment and a difference between medical and non-medical facilities?  

  • Medical facilities are subject to more rapid and frequent changes than non-medical facilities. Hence the importance of checking the quality of log activities on a more regular basis.  
    The minimum frequency of BASICS evaluation is a minimum to be implemented for stable activities. It's up to you to define the frequency that's right for your project, depending on its specific features, but be careful to be realistic in your ambitions.   
    It's better for a hospital to have an assessment done correctly twice a year than badly done 4 times a year.


Why evaluate individual sites rather than the project as a whole?   

  • Assessing the BASICS for a project as a whole is a complicated exercise that lacks nuance. The situation and priorities are significantly different in a medical facility, a warehouse, a team house or an office, for example.   
    To make the evaluation easier, but also more relevant to analyse, we ask you to evaluate each medical structure separately. Your non-medical structures can be evaluated as a group or separately, depending on your organization and the size of your project.   


Why evaluate your entire project between July and September?  

  • The BASICS assessment helps you get a clear understanding of the technical standards in place in your projects, which will serve as a reference when discussing your annual logistics objectives and priorities at PCOLS and operational commissions in November.  


Why evaluate BASICS in MEMO?  

  • MEMO is the main tool for tracking data and logistic activity, and we want to avoid the multiplication of tools. The systematic encoding of BASICS monitoring in MEMO, rather than in Excel files, will enable us to collect this data centrally and provide you with analysis tools to help you monitor logistics quality on your sites.
    Assessments should be prepared in pairs to determine which families will be evaluated and why. After the evaluation, the assessors should analyse the evaluation together with the people implicated in the maintenance of each technical family in order to agree upon an action plan.