HEALTHCARE FURNITURE


facilities in a welcoming, therapeutic environment. A palette of materials was developed for the scheme to convey longevity, and to create an uplifting, person-centred and world-class facility for patients, staff, and visitors.


Reducing the clinical feel of patient bedrooms


Deanestor manufactured more than 300 bespoke bedheads, which were finished in a natural oak laminate, and had provision for medical gases, electrics, nurse call systems, and lighting.


The bedhead units were designed for the specific requirements and layout of each individual room, with over 40 variations installed by Deanestor’s own fitting team, with removable panels for easy access to services. Co-ordinating floor-based fixed furniture was also provided by Deanestor – shelving, cupboards, worktops, and cabinets, across the hospital campus.


Laboratory furniture was manufactured as part of Deanestor’s contract for areas including chromatography, blood transfusion, histopathology, and microbiology. The Trespa benching was supported by powder-coated white steel frames with adjustable feet, and was supplied in a range of sizes and perimeter, peninsular, and island configurations. The benches had sinks, shelving, and different worktop sizes to accommodate specialist equipment. The work surfaces were supplied with upstands, polished edges, and radiused corners. Deanestor had highly organised logistics for efficient deliveries to site, and its project management team required little intervention from the contractor.


Bedhead IPS units created ‘ambience’ Stephen Howie, Design manager, NHS Dumfries and Galloway, said, “The bedhead IPS panel units manufactured by Deanestor have helped to create an ambience within the patient bedrooms, and have contributed to reducing the clinical feel of these rooms. The quality and robustness of benching and cabinetry stands out, and gives confidence that we will have many years of problem-free usage with the products.”


Case study – Royal Papworth Hospital


At the new Royal Papworth Hospital, the UK’s leading specialist heart and lung hospital, Deanestor delivered a £1.1 m contract for the supply and installation of furniture and fittings for over 1,600 rooms. The project was Deanestor’s fifteenth healthcare project for Skanska. This scheme involved the manufacture of nearly 2,000 base and wall cabinets, shelving units, and worktops, for areas including operating theatres, cardiac catheterisation laboratories, pharmacy,


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Deanestor had highly organised logistics for efficient deliveries to site, and its project management team required little intervention from the contractor


isolation wards, en-suite bedrooms, utility rooms, staff changing facilities, a library, and offices. The fixed and loose furniture was manufactured and pre-assembled at Deanestor’s factory in Mansfield. A highly durable white finish for the wall and base units was specified for the clinical areas with light grey laminated worktops. All these items were designed for longevity and to meet stringent infection control requirements. Furniture manufactured for the office areas had a wood grain finish. In addition to installing its


manufactured furniture, Deanestor was responsible for fitting over 12,000 other items across the new heart and lung hospital, including controlled drug cabinets, mirrors, fridges, noticeboards, and fire extinguishers. It also manufactured kitchen units for 15 staff rest rooms and beverage bays, and installed over 1,600 integrated panel systems (IPS) pre-fitted with basins or toilets.


Francis Breen, Construction director at Skanska, said, “Deanestor offered the most competitive solution for this project. We needed a combination of high quality,


durable, and functional furniture that would meet the highest standards of infection control. The Deanestor team engaged well with this complex construction scheme, and had a positive attitude throughout.” Colin Glen, Clinical Project manager at Royal Papworth Hospital, said: “Our requirement was for good quality furniture that had longevity – furniture that would be resistant to damage, and that is well designed to avoid settling of dust and maintain infection control. Deanestor has provided great quality products which are exactly what the hospital needed.” The 40,000 m2


Royal Papworth


Hospital is located on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus. The facility was designed to combine a highly efficient clinical layout and a striking architectural design to reflect its world-leading position as a pioneering cardiothoracic specialist hospital and transplant centre of excellence. It provides more than 300 beds, which are mostly en suite, a critical care unit, ‘Outpatients’, seven operating theatres, and five cardiac catheterisation laboratories.


William Tonkinson and Deanestor


After graduating from the University of Edinburgh, Deanestor’s managing director, William Tonkinson, moved into the financial services sector. Following a period with Rothschilds, he took up employment in a family-owned group of companies, and in 2004 became managing director of Dentalstyle, which specialises in the design, manufacture, and installation, of high-quality furniture and equipment for major dental projects across the UK.


In 2013, he became managing director of Deanestor, one of the UK’s leading furniture and fit-out specialists to the healthcare sector. He is also Executive director of bathroom pod manufacturer, Offsite Solutions.


Originally established in 1948 to manufacture hospital furniture and fittings for the newly established NHS, Deanestor now has the resources and


expertise to manage 5,000-room hospital projects. It says that it has built on this success and expanded into new markets which have specific fit-out requirements ‘for superior aesthetics, strength, and long-term durability’. Deanestor provides robust and high-quality furniture to construction clients and contractors for healthcare, education, and multi-occupancy buildings such as student residences. In 2019, the company acquired the Havelock brands out of administration. The Fife-based Havelock business was a UK market-leader in the manufacture and installation of furniture across a diverse range of sectors, including healthcare.


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