Work has begun on the new Hendon Medical Centre at Sunderland constructed by Weatherhead Construction for Sunderland Teaching Primary Care Trust.
The piling and ground beams are almost complete, looking towards the delivery of the main steel frame w/c 10 September 2007.
The project is due for completion June 2008
The new centre makes a bridge between the outstanding clinical expertise of Moorfields Eye Hospital and the research prowess of the adjacent Institute of Ophthalmology to provide a world class children’s eye treatment facility. The arrangement of outpatients clinics, a day surgery unit, research facilities and short stay patient/parent hostel all within a very tight site has made the vertical connections between floors all important. On each floor light wells zig-zag up the building against the backdrop of a huge wall mural. Throughout, the design combines medical functionality with a rich, welcoming and easily navigable patient environment. The arresting exterior has a glass façade with a flowing pattern of aluminium solar control louvre blades – inspired by the idea of a wheeling flock of birds.
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The new wing will centralise and expand a number of key cancer services for Leeds and the wider region. The new wing will provide all non-surgical oncology services (radiotherapy, chemotherapy, clinical haematology and palliative care) and a small number of specialist surgical services. The majority of cancer surgery will, however continue to be provided in existing locations. The aim is to create a world class facility which achieves the highest standards of design and quality of environment.
The proposed site for the new wing is between Beckett and Chancellor Wings on the Beckett Street frontage. The scheme will result in the closure of Cookridge Hospital and relevant services from LGI and SJUH will transfer into the new building along with thoracic surgical services from Bradford .
The wing will have a floor space of about 67,000m². It will in part be up to 11 storeys in height including a number of lower level floors. A multi-storey car park providing over 1200 spaces is to be built to the rear of the new wing as part of the overall scheme. In addition a new signal controlled junction is to be constructed at the Alma Street/Beckett Street junction. These road improvements will create a new main entrance to the Hospital. Construction of the New Oncology Wing on the St James’s site is due to start summer 2004 with a completion date of autumn 2007
Source: Leeds Cancer Services Website
Artwork in the central cafe combines colours used in each of the hospital wards, creating exciting and easy wayfinding around the building.
Buschow Henley’s St John’s Therapy Centre, Clapham procured through NHS LIFT
Source: BD 16 Feb 2007
[Image taken from Building Design Issue 1753]
The NHS last week opened the hundredth new health centre built under the Government’s NHS Local Improvement Finance Trust (LIFT) programme, a scheme aimed at improving community health services in some of the country’s poorest and most deprived areas.
Three new NHS LIFT health centres are opening inside the week, with the 100th building now open in St Helens (Longview Drive Centre) and further centres opening in East London (Frail Elders’ Centre) and in Thorne, Doncaster (The Vermuyden Centre). Over 70 further NHS LIFT health centres and GP surgeries are already under construction, while dozens more are being planned.
The £3 million Longview Drive Primary Care Centre houses a GP practice with an enhanced minor surgery suite. Patients can also access a wide range of services under the one roof, including health visitors, midwives and cardiac nurses.
Health Minister Lord Warner said:
“NHS LIFT is helping us deliver our vision of an NHS that treats more patients outside of large hospitals. The opening of the 100th new surgery shows that this vision is starting to become a reality.
“The NHS has never witnessed such a sustained investment in GP surgeries and health centres. Around £1 billion has already been earmarked for new buildings through NHS LIFT.
“These are purpose built facilities, where GP services are often on the same site as pharmacies and social services, and are not simple like-for-like replacements.
“The centres are more convenient for patients, particularly older patients and those with long-term conditions, as they offer more care closer to home.
“These modern, spacious and hygienic buildings also help improve the morale of staff working there and, help to attract more GPs into inner-city areas.”
Rather than simply replacing outdated facilities, NHS LIFT premises offer many services traditionally only found in hospitals. As well as GP surgeries, the buildings have delivered ‘super surgeries’ where NHS patients can get minor surgery for hernia repairs, sports injuries and even vasectomies.
X-rays, medical tests, speech and language therapy, chiropody, physiotherapy and dentistry, are also now available in some of the new centres.
The NHS is continuing to make progress on the latest wave of NHS LIFT schemes. Seven wave four projects are proceeding towards appointment of their Private Sector Partner (PSP), their preferred bidder, and three of these are already at this stage.
The NHS LIFT programme is just part of the department’s major programme to modernise GP premises. Over 500 new one-stop health centres have been built since 2001, including those built under NHS LIFT. This will rise to 625 by the end of 2006 and hit 750 by the end of 2008.
In addition, during the last five years over 3,000 GP surgeries – almost one third of all surgeries – have recently been substantially refurbished or replaced.
The new community hospitals initiative, in which the Department will invest £750 million over the next five years, will complement this programme, providing many similar services, but on a bigger scale.
Notes:
1. Details on the three new NHS LIFT schemes are as follows:
Longview Drive Primary Care Centre (Halton & Knowsley PCT) – £3 million
East Ham Memorial Hospital – Frail Elders Centre (Newham PCT) – £14.6 million
The Vermuyden Centre, Thorne (Doncaster PCT) – £5.1 million
2. Developed in the late 1990s, NHS LIFT is the most extensive initiative in recent years to modernise the primary care estate.
3. In all, there are 49 NHS LIFT projects at various stages of development.
4. The 42 projects that have reached financial close have commissioned facilities with a total capital value of £951 million.
5. The Government has allocated £208m in Enabling Funds up to the end of 2005-06, to help kick start these developments.
6. One of the most effective aspects of NHS LIFT is that, while the department sets out the ground rules and provides the standard legal and other documentation, it leaves the actual planning of local facilities to those best able to plan them, namely, the people on the ground. The approach involves the local health economy – a PCT or a cluster of PCTs – developing a strategic plan that incorporates its local primary care service needs and relationships with, for example, the wider health economy and local authority services.
7. Based on the strategic plan, the NHS runs a competitive process to select a private sector partner for the next 20 years. The NHS and private sector then set up a joint venture company to manage the NHS LIFT project. They all own a share of the company and jointly have an interest in its long-term success.
8. NHS LIFT projects are all capable of delivering a number of new facilities and will provide new primary care facilities for some 50 per cent of the population.
9. The position of the wave four NHS LIFT schemes are as follows:
