HOSPITAL REDEVELOPMENT
The Skyinside ceiling-mounted screen installed within the Glenfield Hospital Catheter Lab Suite.
specialist imaging services. Although smaller in scale, the highest levels of technical expertise were still required to improve diagnostic facilities right across the estate at three hospitals – Glenfield Hospital, the Leicester Royal Infirmary, and Leicester General Hospital. Installations included: n Two catheter labs, a bi-plane paediatric catheter lab, an EP catheter lab, four X-ray rooms, and mammography imaging at Glenfield Hospital.
n Paediatric fluoroscopy facilities, CT, two angiography suites (see Figure 1), a combined CT and Gamma camera, a pharmacy robot, a relocatable MRU unit, and Dexa scanning facilities at Leicester Royal Infirmary.
These upgrades have provided technical challenges in design, as well as construction and delivery, within live hospital environments.
The Trust’s view
The UHL NHS Trust adds: “Our team of cardiac and cardiovascular surgeons and consultants has a strong track-record of innovation and research – from the invention of sub-intimal angioplasty, to the early implementation and refinement of endovascular aneurysm repair, and more recently has led worldwide collaborative research projects that have both informed clinical care pathways, and identified new paradigms for the basis of aneurysmal disease.
“Leicester has been a pioneering centre in the use of stent grafts in the UK, but to to sustain and develop such techniques requires a match in the technology available through the provision of a hybrid theatre, which will enable such highly specialised activity to continue to be undertaken.
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“Our cardiac surgery plan is predicting growth over the next five years, and the hybrid theatre will also offer the potential to expand our vascular and cardiac surgery portfolio to respond to increasing demand for services, such as for surgery for complex thoracic-abdmonial aneurysms, which offer both patient benefits and increased income potential for the Trust.”
Key benefits
Other benefits of the scheme cited by the Trust to date include: n Co-locating cardiac and vascular surgery on the same site ensures adjacencies with other services – including cardiology and thoracic surgery – freeing up space at Leicester Royal Infirmary to focus general surgery on a single site, and providing a number of other benefits, as detailed below:
n Improved services for patients, including ‘21st century imaging solutions’ through the provision of the Hybrid Theatre – this will be ‘dual use’ for vascular, and cardiology/ cardiothoracic surgery.
n A comprehensive programme to clinically manage and surgically treat patients with aortic pathology, which is a primary aim of the Trust’s cardiac, thoracic, and vascular surgeons, and is reflected in its Five Year Integrated Business Plan.
n The alignment of clinical and research facilities on the Glenfield Hospital site. The Trust explains: “Cardiovascular research has been a major strength of the Leicester Medical School, University of Leicester (UoL) since its inception. This was recognised through the award of a National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) Biomedical Research
About the author
James Gordon, Associate, BA, DipArch, RIBA, is an accomplished architect, and a key member of P+HS’ senior team in Leeds. He joined the practice in 2004, and has specialised in healthcare projects since 2008, taking responsibility for some of the firm’s most complex acute healthcare projects. Since his appointment to Associate in 2012, he has managed a dedicated healthcare team, successfully delivering projects across the country in acute and primary care for both private and NHS clients within P21, P21+, and framework agreements.
Unit (BRU) in cardiovascular disease to a partnership between UHL and UoL. The BRU has state-of-the-art facilities for clinical research on the Glenfield Hospital site. The opening of the Cardiovascular Research Centre (CRC) at Glenfield further re-enforces the centralisation of services on the site.” hej
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