SPONSORED BY HEALTH SECTOR NEWS Plans for a ‘bigger, better’ Evelina submitted
Evelina London Children’s Healthcare, part of London’s Guys and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, has submitted plans for what it dubs ‘our bigger and even better’ children’s hospital to Lambeth Council for planning permission (see CGI image). It said: “The proposals for our new hospital building, which will be joined to our existing children’s hospital, will enable us to offer more life-changing care and treatment to the young people that need it. The new development will cut waiting times, and bring together more services in one place, improving the experience and outcomes for patients. It will also provide space to expand specialist heart and lung services as, subject to consultation, children’s services will move from Royal Brompton Hospital to an expanded Evelina London in around six years’ time.” Since the award-winning children’s hospital opened in 2005, the number of children and young people who come to it
has more than doubled, while the number with complex needs requiring specialist care ‘continues to grow’.
The new building is expected to include:
n Around 100 beds, and up to 20 additional critical care beds.
n A new suite of operating theatres and procedure rooms.
n Specialist imaging facilities. n More spaces for patients and families to relax, including a roof terrace.
Evelina London Children’s Healthcare has been working closely with development partner, Linkcity, and architects, Hawkins Brown, ‘to involve Evelina London staff, patients, families, and people in our local communities, to inform plans for the new building’.
The scheme will be delivered by building contractor, Bouygues UK, which previously worked on the University College London Hospital proton beam therapy centre.
Nurse call system for fast-track built Hong Kong isolation facility negative pressure beds, covers a land area
Static Systems’ ‘unrivalled expertise and proven track-record’ in the region was instrumental in it winning the contract to provide advanced nurse call communication for the North Lantau Hospital Hong Kong Infection Control Centre (HKICC).
The temporary isolation hospital on Lantau Island was funded by the central government for treating COVID-19 patients in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. Built next to another treatment facility at Asia World-Expo, it is capable of providing 136 wards and 816
of 30,000 m2 , and comprises six inpatient
buildings, a medical centre, and other facilities.
Static Systems said: “To build a hospital of this scale in Hong Kong would normally take four years, but with new building technology and construction ongoing around the clock, the project was completed in just four months.” Static Systems recommended its Ultima full IP, Power-over-Ethernet nurse call system, designed for rapid deployment using industry standard LAN. Each system operates on the principle of
distributed intelligence, and can thus run independently of the network at ward level – which helped speed up testing. The system at the North Lantau Hospital includes a bedside patient-to- staff speech facility. Ultima is a software- controlled, ‘easily scalable solution’ that uses the latest IP protocols – ‘allowing seamless integration with many different technologies to achieve site-focused functionality based around individual hospital culture’. This reportedly allows for greater flexibility to expand it in the future, and, on the HKICC project, allowed the nurse call system of operation to complement the use of negative pressure systems.
Milestone reached in St James’s pathology lab project
A new £27 million pathology laboratory at St James’s University Hospital in Leeds has moved a step closer, with BAM Construction’s appointment as the design and build contractor under ProCure22.
The new facility – which will also provide pathology services to hospitals across West Yorkshire and Harrogate – will allow Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust to bring many of its
pathology services together into a single purpose-built laboratory. Leeds-based BAM Construction previously
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delivered the Trust’s interoperative MRI scheme and NHS Nightingale hospital. Built to accommodate specialist technology, the new laboratory will be designed for ‘fast, accurate, routine, and specialist’ testing. It will also house some
of the services currently located in outdated facilities in the Old Medical School at Leeds General Infirmary (LGI). The development is part of Leeds Teaching Hospitals’ ‘Building the Leeds Way’ programme, a long-term vision to transform healthcare facilities across the Trust. Work on a new adults’ hospital and a new home for Leeds Children’s Hospital on the LGI site has already begun.
BAM has begun work on designs for the new pathology facility, which will include engagement with service-users in local hospitals.
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