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Community diagnostic centre within Beales store ‘a first’
The design team that developed the temporary NHS Nightingale emergency hospitals deployed at the height of the pandemic has overseen the completion of the first of 40 community NHS diagnostic centres opening in England. Interdisciplinary design consultancy,
BDP, and its construction and facilities management partner, CFES, have been working with University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust to open a new centre for breast screening and diagnostics in the Beales department store in Poole. Situated in the Dolphin Shopping Centre, it will also offer testing and assessments for orthopaedics, ophthalmology, and dermatology diagnoses. The BDP team has reclaimed and reused materials from the demounted UK Nightingale hospitals to ‘build a one-stop-shop for much-needed and overdue checks, scans, and tests, in the community’. Paul Johnson, architect director at BDP, who also led the design of the Nightingale hospital at London’s ExCeL Centre, explained: “This project is the first of its kind in the country. It supports a circular economy by reusing the materials from
Offsite specialist wins its largest ever healthcare project
Offsite specialist, Premier Modular, has been awarded a £21 m contract under the Crown Commercial Service modular buildings framework to construct a new outpatient services building at London’s King’s College Hospital.
The 3,450 m2 , four-storey building
the emergency COVID-19 hospitals in an existing building, and is also built via the same collaborative and sustainable design and construction methods. “NHS waiting lists are at an all-time high, and through good design, based on imaginative adaptation of space and recycling of equipment, we are creating real solutions. As a collaborative, interdisciplinary team, we are thinking bigger about the issues faced by today’s society. This new centre will bring true health benefits to the community, reduce pressure on our NHS, and give a boost to the retail sector. We hope to deliver this flexible, repeatable solution for another 39 diagnostic centres in original, underutilised spaces countrywide.”
An eye to the future at Chorley facility
Tilbury Douglas has completed the construction of a £19 m Day Surgery and Outpatient facility at Chorley & South Ribble Hospital in Chorley on behalf of Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. The new day case theatres and Ophthalmology services increase theatre capacity on the site, and will also ‘allow patients to access state- of-the-art facilities’. The hospital’s Ophthalmology Department deals with the highest number of patients, employing over 90 staff, including 13 consultants. This was the third project successfully delivered by Tilbury Douglas for the Trust last November, the others being the new Ribblesdale Oncology Ward project at Royal Preston Hospital, and a £4.8 m Day Case Theatres project at Chorley & South Ribble Hospital. Phil Shaw, Tilbury Douglas divisional
director for the North West, said: “Being able to efficiently deliver and hand over three projects in such a short period is a real testament to the expertise within our team, and our excellent track record in delivering some of the best NHS facilities in the UK.”
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will be Premier’s largest single healthcare project in its 65-year history. Constructed offsite, it will allow the Trust to free up space within the main hospital to help reduce waiting times and improve the patient experience. As main contractor, Premier will lead a project team which includes delivery partner, Claritas, P+HS Architects, and M&E specialists, TClarke. The new building will provide 48 consultation rooms and eight procedure rooms for services including dermatology, rheumatology, respiratory, neurosciences, pain management, and urology. Dan Allison, divisional director at Premier Modular, said: “The use of an offsite solution for this project will ensure faster delivery and earlier occupation. The new building has access roads to three sides, and is immediately adjacent to the Normanby Building. We are working to a short programme to bring these facilities into use as early as possible this year.”
The new three-tier Lancashire
Eye Centre includes a dedicated outpatient and diagnostic space, and three additional theatres to augment day case procedure capacity. The various ‘segments’ are colour-coded to ease patient navigation and improve accessibility. The Centre will provide urgent and emergency clinics, cataract services, and all other specialist ophthalmic services – including glaucoma, retina, paediatric, neuro- ophthalmic, oculoplastic and cornea. Shveta Bansal, consultant ophthalmologist at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals, said: “Our new centre is fully equipped with the latest ophthalmic technology, with our ward and day-case lounge designed for optimum patient comfort and flow.”
Stephen Hatcher, associate at P+HS Architects, said: “The building is targeting a BREEAM ‘Excellent’, with green roofing, a highly insulated building fabric, energy-efficient ventilation, an electric air source heat pump system, and solar panels for electricity generation.” The ‘contemporary’ façade design was informed by existing campus buildings. A double-height feature entrance will allow in high levels of natural light for the reception and waiting area. Premier Modular added:
“Developed with clinicians and patient representatives, the interior design will be crisp and modern, while assisting patients with sensory needs. To maintain patient flows, the new facility will be linked to the Normanby Building at ground floor level.”
University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust
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