MOBILE & MODULAR BUILDINGS ROUND-UP
Mobile AMD unit’s one-hour set-up EMS Healthcare, reportedly ‘the UK’s
leading provider of mobile ophthalmology units’, says its latest macular unit, Quest Plus, has been designed ‘to help alleviate the growing pressures on NHS Trusts in association with macular disease, particularly wet Age-Related Macular Degeneration, an eye condition that causes individuals to lose central vision’.
The company says there are currently
around 40,000 new UK cases of wet AMD annually. Offering a welcoming patient reception/waiting area, a visual acuity room, a consultation and OCT scanning room, and an HTM-compliant cleanroom ‘to enable a one-stop follow up assessment and treatment service without patients having to re-enter the hospital system’, the DDA-compliant Quest Plus has all the required facilities of a macular clinic within a compact, agile unit, and features medical grade materials that meet infection control standards. “Complementing our extensive fleet, the new 40-foot unit offers the flexibility to assist Trusts with smaller patient volumes,” explained Suzie Nield, business delivery manager, EMS Healthcare. “The unit takes just one hour to set up, and has the flexibility to move location on a daily basis.”
Competitive with ‘traditional’ build During the past decade, Solutions Asset
Finance (SAF) has funded modular buildings worth over £150 million in the NHS and wider public sector. SAF says demand ‘has never been greater’, with intense pressures on the NHS to increase capacity and reduce waiting times. MD, Steve Bowers, said: “Modular buildings can utilise asset finance as they are not deemed to be property. There is demand for longer-term funding solutions for modular buildings to better match the high quality of the assets. SAF can provide tailored solutions based on up to a 15-year finance term.
“Often there is the need for financing a new build, while other Trusts may want to review or restructure their existing modular finance arrangements. Some Trusts that have already bought a modular building via capital are utilising sale and lease-back models to free up funds to spend elsewhere. “There is the added flexibility that funding solutions can qualify for both on- and off-balance sheet treatment. There are currently two major drivers fuelling
Latvia’s first modular
healthcare facility
Latvia’s first modular healthcare building, built using Latvian-made modular construction, has recently opened alongside the country’s J kabpils Regional Hospital. The modular building, housing a Siemens Essenza (1.5 T) MRI unit, features ‘remarkable sound and electromagnetic isolation’, and has been designed for use in oncology and for scanning organs and soft tissue. The Magnetic Resonance Centre was designed and built for Vizu l Diagnostika, in Tukums, Latvia, by Forta Medical, with ‘the best foreign designers from Israel, who are specialists in healthcare building design, recruited for the project’.
Forta Medical said: “Here modular’s construction most significant advantage was the adjoining hospital’s uninterrupted operation. The new facility was able to be constructed without any sizeable construction site. The modules, complete with all the internal infrastructure, were pre- manufactured, leaving just the foundations, the module assembly, and façade decoration, to complete on site.” Guntis Ra
¯vis, co-owner of Forta
NHS demand for modular buildings – speed of construction, and the high quality of today’s such buildings.”
Medical, said: “Our manufacturing capacity and technological solutions surpass those of other modular production facilities here, enabling us to compete with the leading Western European manufacturers.”
Faster procurement and rapid delivery without a lengthy tender
Specialist modular healthcare facility provider, ModuleCo Healthcare, has been awarded a place on the new NHS Shared Business Services Modular Buildings Framework, specifically for hired facilities – meaning its clients can fast-track the procurement exercise using an OJEU- compliant framework ‘without going through a lengthy tender process to procure their modular healthcare buildings’.
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ModuleCo Healthcare specialises in procurement and revenue solutions for the provision of specialist modular healthcare facilities into the public sector, and in particular the NHS.
UK general manager, Alan Wilson, said: “With the benefits of modular construction now increasingly acknowledged, this framework will allow us to demonstrate our expertise in providing flexible, affordable solutions to the NHS. We pride ourselves on
delivering bespoke healthcare facilities that meet specific requirements, whether to solve capacity issues, or generate extra income.” One of the company’s most recent projects saw it supply a Day Surgery Unit to Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, providing a standalone, HTM/HBN-compliant facility, including design, build, and all associated enabling and groundworks, within a competitive 16-week programme.
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