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‘Next generation’ health centre opens in East London
Goodman’s Fields, a new-build health and wellbeing centre in East London, designed and delivered by AECOM, has officially opened, providing a ‘next generation’ primary care facility. The new centre will deliver an extended range of primary care services to the patients of Tower Hamlets, providing extra capacity to meet increasing demand, with an expected increase of 7,500 people in the current catchment area by 2033. It brings together two existing practices previously delivering patient care across four sites in Whitechapel and Shadwell.
AECOM was appointed by NHS Property Services, on behalf of NHS North East London Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), to design the fit-out, delivering architectural, lead and principal design, and interior design services, in close collaboration with NHS partners, the practice teams, and patient
representatives. Under its multidisciplinary contract, AECOM also provided MEP engineering, project management, cost management, and contract administration. The project was procured through the NHS Shared Business Services Construction Consultancy Services 2 framework, with the contractor, Borras Construction, procured through the Pagabo framework. AECOM’s architectural vision was to create a flexible zonal design that can adapt to changing service needs, with a focus on supporting the move towards preventative healthcare. Flexibility and
New CEO with eye on business growth Sewell Estates has appointed Claire
adaptability were key to the design, enabling the facility to perform as a GP surgery, wellbeing and health centre, and community centre.
Entirely digitally enabled integrated telemedicine areas enable clinicians to consult with patients remotely. On arrival, patients are monitored via integrated triage assessment pods, enabling clinicians to assess early health risk indicators. Engagement was integral to the design approach, with the team working alongside NHS partners, community representatives, the local authority, patients, and the GP practice tenants, ‘to co-create a set of design solutions that respond to their requirements’. The health centre is on the ground floor of a new residential building within a mixed-use residential and leisure urban quarter. With limited natural light and access points, the reception and waiting areas are in the middle of the building, located around a central courtyard that provides natural light and views out to a landscaped garden.
Harrison as the new CEO of Parallel Data Intelligence. Sewell Estates invested in Parallel – a web application development company specialising in interactive mapping and date visualisation – alongside its public sector partner, Community Health Partnerships, in November 2020, after using its mapping tool on behalf of NHS and local authority customers. Parallel supports public sector clients across England to make decisions about their services, estates, and budgets, through a ‘market- leading’ web application, SHAPE (Strategic Health Asset Planning and Evaluation), which specialises in interactive mapping and data visualisation. With a new CEO, and ‘a demonstratable increase’ in application users, the business is now looking to recruit a new front-end developer. Claire Harrison has been with Sewell Group for 10 years, beginning there leading the Communications team, and, by 35, was an integral part of the senior leadership team. She said: “Parallel’s one simple ethos is to improve the population’s health, so to be given the opportunity to become the CEO of a forward-thinking tech business of this nature with such a powerful mapping tool at its disposal is a very exciting prospect. The information that we map plays a critical role in the decision- making process for NHS bodies across the country.”
November 2021 Health Estate Journal 17
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