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‘World-class’ adult and NICU at Chelsea and Westminster


Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, and its charity, CW+, have officially opened a ‘state-of-the-art’ expansion and redevelopment of the Adult and Neonatal Intensive Care Units at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, which will enable the treatment of over 2,000 critically ill adults and babies every year.


The first phase of the Adult ICU was fast-tracked to open in March 2020 to treat the increased number of patients being cared for due to the COVID-19 outbreak. With construction phases complete, the new ICU unit’s capacity has increased by 45 per cent, allowing the Trust to care for an additional 500 patients annually. The NICU has expanded by 40 per cent, to enable it to provide specialist care to 150 more babies every year, as well as better clinical space and family facilities.


The Trust said: “Thanks to Julia and Hans Rausing and other generous donors, we have been able to develop world-class ICU facilities with a first-of-its-kind patient-led approach to care. The new unit aims to significantly improve critically ill patients’ recovery and wellbeing by creating optimal healing environments, and incorporating the latest innovations and digital solutions that can be personalised


to reduce anxiety, pain, and stress.” The new ICU’s development has been based on extensive research, with the acoustics, lighting, layout, and furnishing, ‘all selected for the patient’s brain, body, and senses, to rest and heal more effectively’. The ‘patient-focused environment’ includes, for example, media screens to enable engagement with the hospital’s ‘arts in health’ programme and contact with family and friends, noise-reducing equipment, and sensor technology to monitor patients’ health, progress, and environment. The new NICU unit has expanded to increase the number of cots, and provide additional space and privacy around each one. Designed to offer a ‘home from home’ environment, it is equipped with technology including adaptive circadian rhythm lighting.


Lighting upgrade delivers energy savings


As part of the £4 m energy performance contract with United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust (ULHT), Veolia has upgraded lighting at Lincoln County Hospital, Pilgrim Hospital in Boston, and Grantham and District Hospital. It says the new lighting systems will enhance the patient care environment, cut carbon, deliver a 91% energy saving, and achieve electrical operating savings of around £400,000 per year, for the hospitals.


The upgrade has seen 10,106 LED light fittings, including standard and emergency luminaires, installed. The new systems are linked to smart controls and sensors that monitor ambient light and presence, control output to the correct


savings of over 2,400 tonnes. Other carbon-reducing measures include a new CHP plant, boiler enhancements, conversion of the steam system to a low temperature hot water network, and new electrical infrastructure upgrades and control systems. The new plant will be operated and maintained by Veolia for 15 years, with investment payback achieved in just over three. The new contract will build on the reductions achieved by Veolia at Lincoln Hospital, where around 64,000 tonnes of CO2


level, dim and switch when there is sufficient daylight, and illuminate only when the area is occupied. These combine an improved quality of lighting throughout each building with annual energy savings of 4,522,344 kWh, and CO2


has been saved since 2004, and included the successful ‘90k in 90 days’ initiative, a three-month challenge to engage staff to make regular, small, money-saving changes. This saw the Trust cut its carbon footprint by 13 per cent between 2009 and 2015, against a national average of 10 per cent.


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Attractive and robust flooring for Welsh Care Centre


Polyflor says a selection of its vinyl flooring products has helped to create safe and attractive internal environments within the new £24 million Cardigan Integrated Care Centre – a purpose- designed unit which brings together specialist health and social care facilities, including GP practices, X-ray and outpatient clinics, community resource teams (CRT), and mental health services. Internal spaces feature a neutral palette ‘to create a calm uplifting environment’ for visitors. Polyflor said: “As a high-traffic, multi-service healthcare centre, the flooring selected needed to provide exceptional ongoing performance, with hygiene, slip resistance, and aesthetics all key.” Polyflor flooring was installed throughout by Artisan Flooring. Within the consultation and treatment rooms, and circulation areas, Expona Flow PUR was specified in Moleskin and Oatmeal. Its neutral shades provide a smooth finish with subtle pearlescent detailing, ‘creating an attractive environment, while being practical, resilient, and hygienic’. Its polyurethane reinforcement (PUR) ‘will allow a low- cost, polish-free maintenance regime for the product’s lifetime’.


The calming colour scheme continued into the toilets, changing, clean and dirty utility and bay areas, where Polysafe Verona PUR in Cookie Cream and Dolphin Grey was selected. Verona incorporates ‘practically invisible’ safety aggregates to improve traction, and provide a sustainable slip-resistant finish for safety underfoot, and protection against spillages and contamination. Acoustix Forest fx PUR – with an impact sound reduction level of 19 dB – was chosen in American Oak for the children’s therapy room and gym. Polyflor said: “For the shower spaces, Hydro Evolve, in Colorado and Tigris finishes, was chosen. Its carborundum- free composition with slip-resistant particles and raised pimple embossing are designed to provide added grip and underfoot safety.”


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