HEALTH SECTOR NEWS
Critical power solution package for £100 m Harborne Hospital
Bender UK has delivered critical power supply solutions and equipped four ‘state-of-the-art’ theatres at the new £100 m The Harborne Hospital, part of HCA Healthcare UK, on the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham campus. The multi-speciality private hospital opened its doors last month, and includes 50 private inpatient beds, 16 private day-case beds, and four operating theatres. It will offer outpatient services, including consultation rooms, an imaging suite, and a fully equipped day-case unit with outpatient chemotherapy and radiotherapy services. The Harborne Hospital has been built in partnership with University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, and will provide additional capacity for NHS patients on dedicated floors. Bender has installed resilient medical
IT Power (IPS) across the hospital to support two endoscopy rooms, the six- bed Intensive Treatment Unit, and the operating theatres. It is also supplying and commissioning equipment in
Fast-track theatres completed at Addenbrooke’s
Three new orthopaedic operating theatres at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge built by MTX using Modern Methods of Construction are playing a leading role in a national scheme to deliver over 50 new surgical hubs across England, the company says. The Cambridge Movement
Surgical Hub is designed to increase orthopaedic capacity at the hospital by 20%, and includes three new operating theatres and links to two adjacent wards upgraded by MTX to provide 40 dedicated surgical beds. MTX employed MMC principles
the four theatres, including Bender CP9 theatre control panels, Merivaara Q-Flow advanced surgical lights, and full integration of audio-visual equipment, including HD cameras mounted within the lights and viewing screens. Multi- movement ceiling-mounted service pendants will supply medical gases, power, and data, alongside the operating tables and intensive care beds. One of the theatres is a hybrid facility,
where Bender is providing a complex medical technology integration system with third-party devices, including Siemens equipment.
Northumberland-headquartered industrialised construction and digital manufacturing specialist, Merit, has been appointed by Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust (NCH&C) to design and deliver its new 48-bed modular unit on the Norwich Community Hospital site. The multimillion-pound facility, ‘designed with sustainability in mind’, will be delivered in just five months. News of Merit’s appointment follows NCH&C’s announcement last August as one of 30 NHS organisations awarded funding to provide more beds and increase capacity to help relieve hospital pressures and cut
Offsite modular-built unit for Norfolk Trust to be delivered in five months waiting lists. The Trust says the Willow
Therapy Unit will ‘improve the transition of patients from hospital care to the community’. It will include single and four-bedded bay treatment areas, an assessment kitchen, a self-service café area, staff amenities, and a reception area. Merit says its expert in-house design team has curated a facility ‘which prioritises ease of access, while also catering to the footfall requirements of both patients and staff’.
Merit will deliver the facility using its new V6 UltraPOD SFS variant. The expandable full building solution – ‘configurable to create multiple types of building for a variety of uses’ – utilises its latest roll former, panel line production system ‘to enhance affordability and accessibility through a significantly reduced programme’. The V6 platform comes as standard, rated BREEAM ‘Excellent’ as a minimum, EPC-A, and with energy consumption reportedly 69% lower than current CIBSE hospital benchmarks.
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for a ‘faster, greener, safer and more cost-effective’ project completion. The single-storey facility has been created using 64 precisely engineered steel modules manufactured off site. They were assembled with concrete floor screeds poured to deliver the required response factor for optimum surgical efficiency. Once the structural stage was complete, internal and external finishing was undertaken, with fit-out using MEP modules designed and manufactured for assembly on site, and installation of furniture, fittings, and other equipment. The 2500 m2 building includes a self-contained plant room on top of the new unit housing seven air-handling units.
As main contractor, MTX worked with multiple partners to create the new theatres. Howorth Air Technology supplied and commissioned the clean air systems, and the medical gases and services pendants. Bender UK provided medical IT critical power systems, and Maquet the operating lamps. Andrew McCaskie, a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at CUH, and Professor Of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Cambridge, said: “The dedicated space and innovative care pathways within the Cambridge Movement Surgical Hub will make a huge difference for the many hundreds of patients waiting long periods for their surgery, often living in pain and struggling to stay active.”
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