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Pinderfields is a healthy
development for the NHS Experience and innovation are proving to be a winning combination in creating a major new hospital for Yorkshire, as James Pringle discovers
new Pinderfields Hospital, where exuberant architecture almost has you feeling that you are arriving for retail therapy in a shopping mall. Built and facility managed by Balfour Beatty for Mid-
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Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust, this is the UK’s fastest-built large acute inpatient hospital, and it is on programme for com- pletion next year. Much of it is already operational, in a phased replacement of the old hospital. The 708 beds all have windows and half of them are in
single en-suite rooms. Multi-discipline services range from ultra-clean operating theatres to specialist burns, plastic
one are the days when hospital buildings filled people with foreboding. Light, space and colour are the modern style – nowhere more so than in Wakefield’s
surgery and spinal injuries units. There is daylight aplenty in the four-storey high welcoming atrium. A coffee shop is the first thing you see, followed by a restaurant and a branch of WH Smith. Receptionists direct outpatients to seating in the atrium, until monitors summon them to their respective clinics, helping them find their way with a system of zones and gates in the manner of an airport. Floors are identified as A, B, C, D, and E to avoid any ambiguity in referring to the ground floor as level 1. The NHS is taking great steps forward in Mid-Yorkshire.
Its hospital in Dewsbury has undergone modernisation and the Blair government’s encouragement of public/private part- nerships (PPPs) paved the way for previously unaffordable state-of-the-art facilities in Pontefract and Wakefield. These
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