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HEALTH SECTOR NEWS Children’s Hospital expansion plans approved
Plans for a BDP-designed expansion and upgrade to Birmingham Children’s Hospital have been approved by Birmingham City Council’s Planning Committee. As part of the decarbonisation of the healthcare estate, the plans deliver an upgrade to the thermal fabric of the existing Victorian buildings on Steelhouse Lane. Architects, BDP, explain that ‘a radical transformation of the front of the hospital’ will see a new, striking glass façade creating a welcoming arrival space which ‘celebrates and enhances the original features of the courtyard setting’. Replacement windows and a ground source heat pump system with an associated energy centre will, the architects explained, ensure that the structure is as energy-efficient and sustainable as possible. The proposal also includes a new
three-storey elective care hub on the site, funded by the national COVID-19 Recovery Programme, housing a new ‘state-of-the- art’ intraoperative MRI (iMRI) machine – reducing the need for some children to go elsewhere in the UK for treatment. The architects said: “Additional theatre facilities
heart of Birmingham city centre. “The sympathetic reimagining of
the historic Victorian courtyard will provide the Trust with a modern main entrance, re-creating a sense of arrival that celebrates the building’s origins while meeting patients’ and families’ needs.”
Originally opened in 1862 as the Birmingham General Hospital, Birmingham Children’s Hospital now provides general and emergency services for paediatric patients in Birmingham and the West Midlands, and is affiliated with the University of Birmingham. A centre of excellence
will reduce backlog waiting lists for elective procedures, improving clinical outcomes for high acuity trauma and neurological surgeries, while the expansion and re- cladding of the existing buildings on Loveday Street will enhance the building’s material performance for the future.” Max Martin, Principal at BDP,
said: “Through a combination of redevelopment and refurbishment our project at Birmingham Children’s Hospital will create a modern healthcare facility that can sustain the world-class provision of paediatric services in the
£2.5 m pharmacy and aseptic suite completed at Weston Park Hospital
BES has completed a £2.5m project to create a new pharmacy and aseptic suite at Weston Park Hospital for the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Designed, engineered, and constructed by BES, the new facilities aim to futureproof the hospital’s drug preparation capabilities on site, with an ATMP-classified environment that enables the production of regenerative medicine, personalised treatments, and the development of nanomedicines. Working with the client as both principal designer and principal contractor, BES’s design of the project for delivery in two phases enabled
the hospital’s existing pharmacy to continue operating ‘as usual’ until the new pharmacy was ready for use. BES refurbished a redundant office area on the sixth floor to create the new, high- specification Chemotherapy aseptic dispensing facility in phase 1. Following its commissioning and validation, the Pharmacy team moved across from the former pharmacy, vacating it to allow the phase 2 refurbishment of the former pharmacy as the new aseptic suite with sophisticated clinical trial (CT) and ATMP preparation facilities.
Working with the hospital’s user requirement specification, and engaging with the Estates team and Senior pharmacist, BES’s multidisciplinary team took the project concept design from RIBA Stage 2 to stage 4. BES designed the new facilities to HTM and cGMP pharmaceutical requirements, carrying out the design qualification validation process before work began on site. Design development also involved consultation with the MHRA to ensure the design complied with regulatory requirements.
for specialist paediatric care services, its facilities include a national liver and small bowel transplant centre, a paediatric intensive care unit, cancer treatment services, epilepsy surgery services, a trauma centre, and CAMHS services. BDP’s town planning team submitted the planning application and listed building consent to the Planning Committee and Birmingham Conservation and Heritage Panel in March 2023. The architects are working with Graham under a P23 contract, with construction works set to start this Autumn.
Apology
The article that appeared on pages 47-51 in the September 2023 issue of Health Estate Journal titled ‘AE: beware water treatment firms’ magic bullet claims’, authored by Stephen Mount AE (Water), contained a number of statements about claims made by an unnamed company in relation to one of its products which the company claims were ‘incorrect and misleading’. Shortly after the article’s publication, Challis MS, the company in question, contacted HEJ’s Editor to inform him that in its opinion, the claims made by Mr Mount were both ‘inaccurate and misleading’. Challis subsequently supplied independent laboratory test evidence of the key performance aspects and compliance certification of a number of its products to HEJ, which clearly confirmed their claimed compliance and efficacy. HEJ acknowledges Challis’s concerns, and apologises for the publication of the statements said by Challis to be incorrect and misleading that were included in the article, and also for the inclusion of extracts from private and historic correspondence which were included without Challis’s permission.
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