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Plans for ‘world-leading’ south London cancer ‘hub’
Plans to develop a ‘world-leading’ cancer research hub in south London have taken a major step forward.
The London Borough of Sutton has purchased a further 0.38 hectares of NHS land on the site of The London Cancer Hub – a partnership with The Institute of Cancer Research, London described as ‘one of the UK’s most significant regeneration projects’.
Finalising the land deal has opened the way for the Borough – which has invested £2.199 million in the final portion of land on the site, taking the total to £30.299 million – to seek a development partner for a £350 m life science campus. The Hub ‘aims to be a global centre for cancer innovation’, bringing together scientists, doctors, life science companies, patients, and the local community. It is led by the London Borough of Sutton and The Institute of Cancer Research (ICR), and supported by the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust and The Mayor of London. The land purchased reportedly offers the potential to accommodate up to 100,000 m2
of new space on the life
science campus. The aim is for private enterprises to share the site with the ICR and The Royal Marsden – ‘intensifying collaboration’. A tender process has opened for a development partner to take the lead on masterplanning, raising of development finance, procurement of third-party contractors, and marketing to occupiers.
The Hub aims to create ‘a vibrant community of scientists, doctors, and innovative companies’, supported by research facilities, and community amenities including a secondary school. The initiative is expected to create 13,000 jobs, and to ultimately contribute £1.2 billion to the UK economy annually. Professor Paul Workman, CEO of The Institute of Cancer Research, London, said: “There has been an explosion in our knowledge of cancer over the last decade, and we’re seeing the fruits in a succession of exciting new treatments. But there is still much more to do to translate research advances into innovative cancer treatments – and part of the answer is to stimulate intensive collaboration between academia and industry. I’m incredibly excited by the potential of The London Cancer Hub to spark creativity, innovation, and collaboration, and to take many more exciting new cancer treatments through to patients.”
Help addressing winter pressures
A Foundation Trust is addressing winter pressures with the addition of a mobile theatre unit, which it says will help it increase its operational capacity by an estimated 120 procedures a month. Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLaG) took delivery of the Vanguard Healthcare Solutions mobile theatre at Goole and District Hospital in early November, and it became fully operational later that month. It is helping the Trust to carry out an extra 30 operations a week, and will be used for urology, gynaecology, and general surgery. During its six months on site, over 700 people should benefit. Designed and built by Vanguard, the theatre provides an anaesthetic room, operating theatre, scrub area, a two-bed first-stage recovery area, HEPA-filtered environmental air, integrated medical gas banks, changing room, and utility areas. Members of the Vanguard clinical team
16 Health Estate Journal February 2019
Polyflor launches adhesive-free flooring
Polyflor’s new Polysafe QuickLay is a loose lay safety flooring designed for adhesive-free installation.
The company said: “Designed to be a practical choice for contractors and specifiers alike, Polysafe QuickLay is a temporary or permanent floorcovering which achieves the same performance and durability as other Polysafe flooring collections, but with the added benefits of adhesive-free installation. The specially formulated studded emboss on the underside works as a barrier – allowing moisture to escape from the sub-floor – facilitating installation over new concrete floors of up to 97% RH. The unique double-sided Polysafe Quicklay tape is fitted around the room’s perimeter, underneath all seams and doorways, securing the flooring in place.”
Polysafe Quicklay features a contemporary design in 12 shades, with a matt surface finish. Polyflor says it provides a decoration suitable for dementia-friendly environments, supported with the University of Stirling’s Dementia Services Development Centre accreditation for the full collection. It added: “The Polysafe QuickLay collection performs exceptionally well, with 10 colours achieving the highest 1a rating, and two achieving 1b.” Polysafe QuickLay features ‘the renowned’ Polysafe polyurethane reinforcement (PUR) cleaning enhancement. Cross-linked and UV cured, Polysafe PUR is ‘a super strength reinforcement designed to facilitate cleaning, while providing optimum appearance and colour retention, and improved soil release’.
are supporting the Trust’s own surgeons and anaesthetists.
The new theatre has been installed to the side of the main hospital next to the staff car park, and is linked to the main building through a bespoke and purpose-built link corridor. Shelley Bradburn, theatre sister at Goole Hospital, said: “The clinical team here at the hospital have welcomed the additional facility, and it means we can see more patients, and will hopefully, over the winter, not see procedures having to be postponed or cancelled.”
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