PROCUREMENT AND SUPPLY
Sizeable EBME package for £25 m Swansea hospital
Avensys has demonstrated its broad-ranging capabilities and expertise in the procurement, purchase, storage, supply, and installation of new medical devices, and the sale of surplus-to-requirements EBME equipment, in a £1 m contract recently successfully completed for not-for-profit healthcare provider, Healthcare Management Trust (HMT), at its new £25 m Sancta Maria Hospital in Swansea’s SA1 waterfront district.
The Healthcare Management Trust, a not-for-profit healthcare specialist which owns and operates the new £25 m Sancta Maria Hospital in Swansea’s SA1 waterfront district, was registered with the Charity Commission in 1985. The hospital’s roots go back considerably further, however – to 1958, when surgeons, Mr Tanner and Mr Cellan-Jones joined forces with Ursulines of Jesus nuns to take over the former Brunswick Nursing Home on a site in Uplands in Swansea and turn it into a six- bed private nursing hospital, renaming it Sancta Maria.
Significant subsequent milestones included the completion of a larger premises combining Sancta Maria with the neighbouring Mirador in 1962 – with a new operating theatre and more patient rooms, the ‘gifting’ in 1980 of the hospital’s first X-ray unit, and the hospital’s role changing, in 1983, from principally providing care to the elderly, to offering medical care services to a wider patient group. In 1988 HMT invested £500,000
on improvements and equipment. Several expansions and improvements took place at the Uplands site over the years, but around three years ago – in recognition that some of the existing buildings were no longer fit-for-purpose – plans were developed for a new, purpose-built premises in Swansea. The site chosen for the new private hospital and diagnostics unit was Lamberts Road in Swansea’s waterfront district.
Several ambitions for new hospital In developing the new hospital, a key aim was to much improve the patient experience, with features including en-suite bedrooms, improved accessibility, a dedicated day surgery, and on-site parking. The new Sancta Maria Hospital, a modern-looking two storey building, was designed by the Cardiff office of architects, IBI Group, and built by Kier Regional Building West and Wales. Construction work started in early 2019,
with the new facility handed over and admitting its first patients in February 2021. The new hospital offers a range of improved facilities, including on-site diagnostic equipment in the form of an MRI scanner and digital X-ray machine located in a ground floor Radiology Department. There are 12 en-suite patient bedrooms, three operating theatres, and a dedicated day surgery unit. The ground floor features a spacious reception area, a café, patient waiting areas, and administrative and clinical offices, while the surgical facilities and wards are on the upper floor.
A local supply chain Kier worked with its local supply chain partners – over 75% of whose staff lived within a 50-mile radius – to deliver the project, and also provided training and job opportunities to the local community – including two bricklaying apprentices, one mechanical apprentice, and one electrical apprentice, plus a management trainee and a trainee quantity surveyor. Tony Barrett, Chief
External and internal views of the new HMT Sancta Maria Hospital in Swansea.
Executive of HMT, said when the new healthcare facility opened: “The new hospital’s opening is a landmark event for us – a culmination of hard work and a determination to keep quality healthcare right here in Swansea. It is the result of extensive collaboration with our design team, Kier, local partners, the University of
Wales Trinity Saint David (UWTSD), our employees, and the entire community.” HMT said in advance of the hospital’s official opening: “The hospital will be opening without the fanfare that everyone
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