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Duke of Cornwall breaks ground on Isles of Scilly
The first ground has been broken by the Duke of Cornwall for a new integrated health and social care facility on the Isles of Scilly. Prince William toured the St Mary’s Community Hospital site before the ceremony, with the ground-breaking following the new integrated facility securing both planning and national funding approval. The Duke met staff from the hospital and St Mary’s Health Centre, Council of the Isles of Scilly, and partners. The project’s aim is to develop an integrated care model that supports the needs of the island communities, and will future-proof services.
Regeneration specialist to ‘transform’ Old Medical School
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has announced Scarborough Group International (SGI) – a UK privately- owned property regeneration specialist – as the preferred developer to ‘transform’ its historic Old Medical School at Leeds General Infirmary into ‘a globally recognised health-tech innovation hub’. The proposed agreement to acquire
and refurbish the grade II*-listed building represents the first phase in the delivery of the Innovation Village, ‘a world-class cluster for science, innovation, and technology surrounding the new hospital development at Leeds General Infirmary’. The Innovation Village will encompass over 2.2 million ft2
of development,
creating up to 4,000 new jobs, over 500 new homes, and a £13 bn economic boost for West Yorkshire. SGI has set out plans to create a ‘health-
Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust CEO, Debbie Richards, said: “The visit from His Royal Highness is a real morale boost for both health and social care staff, who have worked tirelessly to see this plan come to fruition. Without their vision and championing, we would not have got this project off the ground. “It’s been a very special day for our staff, and the islands. His Royal Highness was particularly keen to hear about the reality of delivering healthcare in such a remote setting.” Located on the St Mary’s Community Hospital site on land next to St Mary’s Health Centre, the new facility will provide 12 residential care home beds, NHS inpatient beds, and a modern maternity suite. Other outpatient services will continue – including X-ray, a minor injury unit, and dental and consulting rooms. The aim will be ‘to provide robust services to keep people at home, or close to home, where clinically possible’ – including via maximising digital technologies and remote support.
The project is a collaboration between Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust; Council of the Isles of Scilly; primary care; Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust; South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust; voluntary sector partners, and mental health services. All partners are working in collaboration with the Duchy of Cornwall.
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tech ecosystem’ at the Old Medical School to encourage collaboration between clinicians, academics, researchers, and entrepreneurs, ‘supporting start-ups and scale-ups to grow and help transform the future of healthcare’. The aim is to preserve the Old Medical School’s historic Tudor Gothic style, while implementing ‘contemporary enhancements’ to offer ‘a
dynamic and functional’ workspace. These includes laboratories, co-working spaces, offices, and communal areas, along with a new atrium over the inner courtyard. Completed in 1894, the original red- brick building was designed by Leeds architect, WH Thorp, as home to one of England’s first provincial medical schools. It currently houses the Trust’s pathology department, which is relocating to the ‘state-of-the-art’ Centre for Laboratory Medicine at St James’s University Hospital. West Yorkshire Combined Authority has provisionally identified the Old Medical School as a major project set to benefit from the £160 m West Yorkshire Investment Zone.
Major redevelopment planned for former Newcastle hospital site
Genr8 Kajima Regeneration and its partnership with Newcastle University (Newcastle Genr8 Kajima) have secured planning consent for the £500 m Health Innovation Neighbourhood masterplan – which it says will transform a former 29-acre general hospital site in the city into ‘a new, ambitious neighbourhood’ combining housing, alongside public realm allied to modern healthcare, education, and community facilities that will ‘foster research, innovation, and enterprise’. Leveraging Newcastle University’s ‘leadership in ageing research’, the development will feature ‘advanced infrastructure to support housing solutions that promote longer, healthier lives’. The masterplan includes 350,000 ft2
of research and innovation
facilities, the same volume of business, employment, and education space, 100,000 ft2
of NHS and other health-
related facilities, and 1,250 new homes, up to 15% of which will be affordable. The residential space is intended to deliver a range of multigenerational
dwellings across a variety of tenures. Planned developments include a
hub to support local community needs through digitally enhanced services, including community-accessible facilities, a café, digital learning spaces, and areas for innovation, research, training, and office use. It would be designed to establish a new southern entry point and frontage on Newcastle’s Westgate Road. The masterplan incorporates ‘green
corridors’, and envisions development plots centred around the site’s ‘public green heart’, enhancing connectivity with the existing neighbouring communities through new east-west links.
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