HOSPITAL DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION
glass was, I believe, originally cut out and reworked with scalpels; the glass is a colour-changing material. The large glass artwork is called ‘Until the day you feel good’.” All the glazed fronts of the inpatient rooms on floors 3,4, and 5 also feature artwork, colour-coded in line with a different theme and accents colour for each floor. Lighting for a wide range of public, consult/exam, and office spaces around the hospital was supplied by Whitecroft Lighting. “Alongside striving for space and calm, we also sought to bring in lots of light – for instance at the end of every corridor is a large window,” Antoinette Reis explained. “Many of the public spaces and the Outpatients’ atrium are predominantly naturally lit, both to give an uplifting feel, and a connection to the outside world.”
Special pond
Talking of the outdoors, and one of the special features that HOK, working with landscape consultant, FIRA, created, is an artificial pond onto which the restaurant looks out. Shelley Hugill said: “The pond at the Papworth Everard site was extremely popular with patients: many used it to gauge how well they were recovering based on seeing if they could walk around the perimeter. Close to the pond at the new site – which is home to a number of ducks – are outdoor seating and a hard landscaped area with flowers which, it is hoped, will also be used for outdoor events such as small concerts.”
I wondered about the new hospital’s upkeep and running.
personal service, and is also a nice interface between the nursing team and Estates,” she added.
A sizeable move over
One of the special features that HOK, working with landscape consultant, FIRA, created, is an artificial pond, onto which the restaurant looks out.
The Trust’s head of Estates, Facilities & PFI, Shelley Hugill.
Shelley Hugill explained that the Trust’s Estates and Facilities management team is located in the basement, alongside staff from hard FM provider, Skanska Facilities, and soft FM specialist, OCS. She added: “Although OCS provides the hospital’s catering, a team of Trust-employed housekeepers undertake the patient feeding, working with the nurses. There is a main ground floor kitchen that supplies the ‘Just Dine’ restaurant, while patient meal provider, Anglia Crown, brings the meals onto site to a ‘pick and pack’ kitchen in the basement. Here OCS prepares salads and snack boxes, while each floor has ‘regen’ ovens on the main hospital street for re-heating hot meals. We feel the serving up of food by a mixture of housekeeping staff and nurses gives patients a better, more
Shelley Hugill explained that while the East of England Ambulance Service and Amvale Medical Transport undertook the patient transfer from the old to the new hospital, removals company, Pickfords, transferred over many items of existing, fully functional equipment provided that they met all the required performance criteria, She added: “The equipment we decided not to bring over has been sold or auctioned to other healthcare facilities, charities, schools, or GP’s surgeries. We worked with around 30 organisations to pretty well clear the old site.” In fact, I learned, Global Healthcare Estates recently won the bid to acquire the 13-acre Papworth Everard site, and says it will open a ‘five-star health and wellness village’ on the land.
Back to the new hospital, and Antoinette Reis said the entire Project Team had been ‘pleased and proud’ with the feedback to date. She added: “Over the past few weeks we have shown around a number of prominent visitors from the healthcare community – including senior personnel from hospitals in mainland Europe – and many told us they found it difficult to believe – such is the standard of facilities, fit and finish, that it is an NHS, rather than a private healthcare facility. Patient and staff feedback have been positive too, and we hope that the new Royal Papworth Hospital will build on the reputation of its forerunner, and provide a high standard of specialist care for heart and lung patients for at least the next hundred years.”
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