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Security officer’s bravery and quick thinking recognised
Josh Welch (pictured), a Security supervisor who serves APCOA’s client, Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust – for whom APCOA provides security and car parking management at Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital – has been presented with an ACS Pacesetters ‘Officer of Distinction 2021’ award.
ACS Pacesetters membership comprises contract security guarding companies in the top 15% benchmarking and achievement levels set by the Security Industry Authority’s Approved Contractor Scheme. Josh Welch’s award recognises his bravery and quick thinking in responding to a fire alarm activation in an occupied ward on the fifth floor of Hull Royal Infirmary’s 13-storey tower block. Aware of the potential risk to life, he immediately alerted the Security team and rushed to the scene, finding a bin engulfed in flames immediately in front of the ward entrance door. Realising that anyone attempting to leave the ward via this door would meet a wall of flame and hot gases, and seeing further danger
Turner & Townsend to lead renewal programme
Turner & Townsend is leading the delivery of ambitious plans for Sunderland’s new Eye Hospital, submitted recently by Sunderland City Council.
from oxygen and clinical lines close by, he grabbed the appropriate fire extinguisher and dealt with the fire himself before the fire brigade arrived. He then set about investigating how the fire had begun, and identified a male patient who may have been responsible for starting it. Having used CCTV to confirm this, he detained him until the Police arrived to arrest the individual – who was later charged with ‘arson with attempt to harm’. APCOA provides security and parking services for 18 healthcare clients, ‘with numbers growing all the time’.
New decant ward ‘a huge undertaking’
Modular construction specialist, Darwin Group, has completed a new, fully integrated decant ward – scaling 1,474 m2
– at West Suffolk Hospital, a 430-bed hospital on the edge of Bury St Edmunds – for the West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust.
Completed in 18 weeks, the ward was built using modern methods of construction, and will provisionally accommodate existing patients, while the rest of the West Suffolk Hospital building undergoes planned
maintenance works. The two-storey build consists of 32 beds, with six-bedded bays and two single en-suite rooms, linked to the existing hospital. It also houses support accommodation, including two large, centralised nurse bases, utilities, plus staff rest and changing rooms.
Darwin Group’s skilled in-house team used its turnkey service to deliver all stages of this project, allowing the facility to be handed over within the tight timescale with minimal disruption to the live hospital environment. Tony Floyde, the Trust’s Senior Project manager, said: “The construction of the West Suffolk Hospital’s new decant ward has been a huge undertaking, and we are very pleased it has been completed within the tight timeframe set. It was essential that our construction partner could work flexibly to accommodate our needs, and we now have a fully functioning, healthcare-compliant ward. We are very pleased with the result; the new facility is a high-spec and efficient solution for our staff and patients, and will help us continue to provide high quality care.”
The global professional services company was appointed to develop an outline business case for the renewal of the hospital’s existing facilities, and is providing project and cost management, and principal designer services. The existing Sunderland Eye Infirmary building was built in 1937, and the plans will ensure that the regionally and nationally respected facility can continue to provide leading ophthalmic services for the future. The multidisciplinary appointment, under the NHS Shared Business Services (NHS SBS) framework, covers a comprehensive scope across the anticipated lifecycle of the programme, including the development of business cases, design, tendering, and contract, construction and equipment, technical commissioning handover, post- completion, operational commissioning, and project evaluation.
Darren Laybourn, Strategic lead for the North East, director and Global Head of Healthcare, said: “A renewal of facilities at the Eye Hospital is an exceptionally important investment for the City of Sunderland, and we are delighted to be bringing our full experience to bear on this project. The Eye Infirmary has a long and celebrated history in Sunderland, and we’re glad to be working with the City Council and South Tyneside & Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust to secure that legacy for the years to come.”
The hospital is the latest development planned for Riverside Sunderland, which has been backed by Legal & General, and will create ‘a dynamic mixed-use urban quarter in the heart of the city centre’.
14 Health Estate Journal August 2021
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