East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust has completed the latest phase of work towards realising an ambitious vision of developing an ‘Emergency Care Village’. The new extension, complete with extra bed bays and facilities for staff, is being built to provide a more streamlined service for patients. The most recent element of the project to be completed is a two-story extension to the current Emergency Department at Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital. This, alongside the repurposing of a former admin corridor has created 13 additional bays for treating people who present with ‘major’ illness or injury with the upper floor providing new facilities for staff.
Royal Blackburn Hospitals plan for extension of A&E department PLANS for a two-storey extension to the emergency department at the Royal Blackburn Hospital have been submitted. An application has been created by Adam Richardson from Gilling Dod Architects, on behalf of James Maguire of East Lancashire Hospitals Trust, for the grassed area next to the current accident and emergency department. In the planning document it said that the extension is to ‘provide Covid-19 emergency capacity’. It added: “The proposed development consists of a new two-storey extension linked back to the existing building providing additional clinical space at ground floor.