Recognising Excellence in Hospital New Builds
Health Spaces are delighted to be attending the Building Better Healthcare Awards in November. Working in collaboration with University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust and James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, we are proud to have submitted two projects for consideration: Best Healthcare Development and Best Modular Building.
Best Healthcare Modular Facility
Leicester General Hospital: Radiology Reporting Centre. Designed & Delivered by Health Spaces
To help improve NHS staff welfare and create additional reporting space for the radiologist team, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust urgently needed to extend its Radiology Department at Leicester General Hospital, creating a new CDH reporting centre. The new health space was to form a critical component of the community diagnostic hub for the hospital, requiring reporting for six operators, including breakout space, WC and kitchenette.
âAs with all of our work, we find out how we can support the users in our design. The reporting room is designed to be acoustically very comfortable; it has adjustable lighting for each of the workstations. Weâve even included innovations like the adjustable height work benches so that the physical comfort isnât a distraction from work.â
This new hospital build employed the use of Modern Methods of Construction to ensure for a reduced construction programme, minimal disruption to the live hospital site and significant cost savings. See case study.
Best Healthcare Development
 âConcept Wardâ – James Paget University Hospital. Designed & Built by Health Spaces
This new hospital project was part of a programme to provide urgent patient space as James Paget University Hospital underwent precautionary remedial work. The initial plan was to use the space as a decant ward. However, as the hospital was selected to join the New Hospital Programme, the space presented a unique opportunity to trial principles related to the NHP, forming a critical âtest bedâ to trial innovative ways of working, new technologies and the impact of single in-patient rooms.
Seeing different speciality wards from the main hospital including emergency surgery, acute medicine, paediatrics and orthopaedic surgery, the ward, named the âConcept Wardâ, would form a research centre.
The results of the research, sponsored by Staffordshire University, will inform future designs at the hospital, the wider Trust, the NHS, and healthcare communities internationally.Â
The space also trialled a modular (MMC) approach to healthcare design and build â highlighting the advantages to using a bespoke approach to standardisation, combining unique design elements with standardised designs.
âConstructing this new modular hospital ward is an exciting and important project for the Trust â and brings two benefits. Firstly, it will give us additional capacity so we can continue a programme of precautionary remedial works to our hospital roof in our ward areas. In addition, by incorporating the latest specifications, it will provide us with valuable information to assist with ward design within our new hospital, for the benefit of both our patients and staff.â – Mark Flynn, Director of Strategic Projects, James Paget University Hospital.
We look forward to attending the Building Better Healthcare Awards later this year.
