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Specialist diagnostic facility handed over at the Royal Brompton


Kier has handed over Royal Brompton Hospital’s new diagnostic centre for Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust. The new facility provides MRI,


CT, ultrasound, echocardiogram, interventional radiology, transoesophageal echocardiogram (TOE), and bronchoscopy scanning under one roof for the Royal Brompton and Harefield hospitals estate, which makes up the UK’s largest specialist heart and lung centre. The Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust officially joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, ‘bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease’, in February 2021. Kier says the new diagnostic centre,


procured through ProCure22, ‘will enhance patients’ experience, allowing patients and staff to effortlessly move between buildings and clinical


‘Seven figure funding’ package to aid growth


DDC Dolphin, the specialist in advanced sluice room equipment based in Poole, has secured ‘a seven- figure funding package’ from NatWest to facilitate future growth and build a new head office in the Dorset town. It will use a significant amount of the funds to develop a new facility comprising an assembly and warehouse building, loading facilities, a two-storey modern office building, and a car park. Work began last June, with the development expected to be complete this summer. The remaining funds from the funding package will help to bolster the company’s ambitious growth plans, largely focused on sustainability and local jobs creation. The business intends to add to its almost-100 team with a strong recruitment drive in late 2022. MD, Brian Calder, said: “The development of the new site is well underway and, with the help of NatWest, we’re driving forward our green ambitions while also creating new opportunities for the local area. We will continue to focus on our core market – care homes and hospitals. However, we are also keen to develop our consumables offering in non- medical settings such as schools, health clubs, and beauticians.”


and the highway to the front. Throughout construction, movement of the existing structures was carefully monitored to minimise disruption to the live hospital environment. David McKenzie, managing director,


departments via a convenient and secure route’. It added: “The state-of-the-art MRI scanners installed are the market’s most advanced clinical such scanners.” Working within an extremely tight


footprint, ‘sandwiched’ between two existing buildings, Kier undertook extensive enabling works followed by the construction of a double basement while structurally supporting the existing occupied hospital buildings either side,


Kier Construction London, South & Strategic Projects, said: “This project highlights our team’s extensive experience and technical expertise in delivering complex healthcare facilities in live environments with extensive temporary works requirements.” Piers McCleery, director of Strategy and


Corporate Affairs, and Diagnostic Centre Programme director, Royal Brompton and Harefield Clinical Group, said: “This is one of the largest projects ever undertaken at Royal Brompton and Harefield, and would not have been possible without huge contributions of time and effort from a large number of our staff.”


Premium hassle-free parking performance with affordability promised


APT Skidata, the parking solutions business, has introduced a new parking solution which it says gives hospitals ‘a new way of delivering a hassle-free parking experience with high-quality, reliable technology on a monthly subscription’. Its ‘Parking-as-a-Service’ solution


is ‘a combination of technology and service’, where the company takes responsibility for installing and maintaining the equipment, and the operator pays an agreed monthly fee for five years. APT Skidata said: “PaaS instantly removes the need for capital expenditure, and the fixed monthly subscription cost is better for cashflow. All of the service, maintenance, and software upgrades are included in the cost.”


Managing director, Steve Murphy,


says: “Parking-as-a-Service gives owners / occupiers the chance to have the best-performing technology where they might have ordinarily opted for a cheaper alternative. Operating a car park brings a collection of challenges – the first being the initial capital expenditure required to procure parking equipment which controls and collects parking revenues. This no longer needs be an obstacle.” APT Skidata says that for a simple


‘one entry / one exit’ solution for a 200-space car park, the monthly


subscription could be as low as £1250 per month. The revenues generated, however, could be as high as £16,000 per month. PaaS is a cashless solution, and the


operator can configure the system to best meet its needs. There is a choice of gates and barriers, and ANPR camera mount and packages can include intercom, alongside a maintenance package and transaction (i.e. payment) bundles. Once the technology is chosen, the customer is connected to APT Skidata’s ‘cloud’ parking platform. Hospitals can build on their current car park usage by adding a reservations platform to manage patient and visitor reservations, or by offering discounts on parking through validations. EV charging can also be easily integrated with the parking infrastructure to allow drivers to pay both for parking and EV charging in the same single transaction upon exit.


February 2022 Health Estate Journal 13


Image courtesy of Kier


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