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Government moneypot paves way for surgical centre in Taunton, Somerset
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arlier this month, Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, announced that NHS hospitals and community services
would get £760m to modernise and transform their buildings and services in, this, the year of the health service’s 70th birthday. The cash marks the biggest
investment of its kind in the NHS in over 10 years and it will be spent on programmes to meet local demand, such as new urgent care centres and the refurbishment of mental health facilities. One of 40 projects to benefit from
that funding is a £79.5m surgical centre planned for Musgrove Park Hospital in Taunton. Designed by BDP, which also
designed the hospital’s Jubilee Building, which opened in 2014; the facility will provide a new surgical and critical care unit, and endoscopy suite. It will house six endoscopy rooms,
patient recovery and clinical support areas; eight operating theatres, including two interventional radiology theatres, recovery areas and clinical support; and 22 critical care beds.
Looking to the future These have all been designed to BDP's new thinking around wider hospital infrastructure, with dedicated wards ensuring patients remain within the appropriate care team while in recovery, allowing staff to work more efficiently with all the supporting facilities at their fingertips. "We are designing a hospital
complex of buildings that can expand and respond to future needs," says BDP's healthcare architect director, Nick Fairham. "Musgrove Park was originally built in
the 1940s with corridors so wide you could drive a jeep down them. “Now we design hospitals where
wards and care units are well connected so there is no need for automated transport to get from the operating theatre to the wards.” The surgical unit will be connected
to the welcoming concourse building, with glazed link corridors to the Jubilee Building. And a ‘green corridor' will be created
between the buildings for both patients and staff. Work on the project, commissioned by
Taunton & Somerset NHS Foundation Trust, is due to start next year. Currie and Brown is acting as quantity
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surveyor on the project; while BDP is also carrying out consultancy, risk assessment and civil and structural engineering work. The mechanical and electrical engineer is WSP Parsons Brinckerhoff.
Cash windfall Also benefiting from the Government funding is the Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin Sustainability and Transformation Partnership, which will receive £300m to transform local hospital services. It proposes to use some of the
funding to develop an emergency care
site and a separate planned care facility Announcing the money, Hunt said:
“As the NHS approaches its 70th birthday, we are backing it with one of the largest capital programmes in NHS history. “We are supporting local NHS
services with new buildings, beds and wards so that staff can have confidence that we are expanding capacity for the future.”
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