A vital new clinical assessment area has opened at the hospital, hoping to reduce A&E congestion. The new area was opened on February 1 and is part of the hospital s urgent care services to help reduce the congestion often seen in the A&E department. The hospital hopes this will also help minimise the spread of coronavirus at the site and help them move patients to the most appropriate place in the hospital to minimise the spread. It will help the medical team to be able to assess patients from a variety of areas properly before taking them (triaging) to the most appropriate department for care, or whether the patient can be discharged straight away.
Healthcare + Senior Living | Time for change
29 Jan 2021, 11:55Comments (0)
Property professionals discussed what needs to change to make health centres and senior living developments fit for the future, amid the twin challenges of an ageing population and the ongoing health crisis.
Work to create a healthy living-focused neighbourhood around North Manchester General Hospital in Crumpsall, as well as embedding flexibility into healthcare schemes to keep pace with shifting trends, were among the topics discussed by panellists at the latest
Place North West event.
Healthcare + Senior Living was hosted by
Place North West editor Sarah Townsend and sponsored by Sheppard Robson, SI Sealy, DAC Beachcroft, OakNorth Bank, Clearfibre and Curtins.
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The contractor has been selected by the Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust to build a 105,000 sq ft facility as part of the Salford Royal hospital, and will start construction next month.
Salford City Council approved plans for the six-storey James Potter Building – previously known as the Acute Receiving Centre – in December 2019.
The six-storey centre is intended to support Salford Royal’s role as the major trauma centre for Greater Manchester. It will feature a resuscitation area, five emergency theatres, inpatient beds, diagnostic imaging and a helipad.
Once complete, the specialist facility is expected to receive 90% of all major trauma patients in Greater Manchester, for example, people who have been involved in a serious road traffic accident or serious fall. It will also be the hub site for high-risk general surgery across Bolton, Salford and Wigan.
Bam has been appointed to build a £68m hospital in Salford.
Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, part of the Northern Care Alliance NHS Group, has appointed the firm to build a new hospital to support its role as the major trauma centre for Greater Manchester.
Work is set to start 22 February
The contractor was appointed through the Procure22 Health Framework, which is due to be replaced by the covid delayed Procure 2020 framework this year.
Planning permission for the six-storey James Potter Building, previously known as the Acute Receiving Centre, was granted in December 2019.
The new hospital build on the Salford Royal site is also part of the government’s Health Infrastructure Plan, which will deliver 48 hospitals across the country by 2030.
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writes Alex Solk of Sheppard Robson.
Hospital design is ripe for radical reinvention. Traditionally, investment has focused on clinical advances and technology in healthcare, whilst the hospital environment and the way it embraces new thinking has often been overlooked. Of course, clinical advances are crucial, but we are starting to see a changing of mindset. With the scale of the government’s new Health Infrastructure Plan, we have a real opportunity for a significant reappraisal of what hospitals can be.
Increasingly, healthcare institutions are asking: how can our healthcare services be embedded within communities, rather than isolated, institutionalised facilities? How can wellness design principles, which are so prevalent in other sectors, reshape the whole hospital experience? How can the NHS and healthcare operators attract and retain the best staff?