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Construction work is due to start in March 2021 on a new £68million hospital at Salford Royal.
Salford Royal is the major trauma centre for Greater Manchester and the hub site for emergency General Surgery for the North West of Manchester.
Once complete, the specialist facility is set to receive 90% of all major trauma patients in Greater Manchester.
Planning permission for the six-storey development (previously referred to as the Acute Receiving Centre) was granted in December 2019. The new hospital build on the Salford Royal site is part of the Government’s Health Infrastructure Plan - which is due to deliver 48 hospitals across the country by 2030.
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Construction and healthcare are in a period of rapid change and transformation. Embracing digitisation and modern methods of construction is key to delivering healthcare infrastructure that meets the needs of today and the future,
writes Andy Macfarlane of Curtins.
For more than a decade, both the healthcare and construction sectors have been on parallel tracks of embracing rapid transformational change, driven by the digitisation of the processes for how we design, construct and engage with our healthcare environments.
The global pandemic has accelerated these changes, resetting public awareness of how we value our individual and collective physical and mental health.
A MAJOR investment project is underway at the Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester, which will see the hospital’s pharmacy totally refurbished. The new purpose-built hospital pharmacy will include temperature controlled environments, and will host state of the art equipment including a robot which handles the safe storage, rotation, tracking and delivery of medicines. The robot will also automatically generate stock order replacements and release some emergency drugs out of hours, allowing specialist pharmacy staff to spend more time directly supporting patients and colleagues. This investment is part of the trust’s commitment to continuing to develop and improve the health and care services at Winchester hospital.
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Hospitals of the Future, Leeds
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has named the five teams shortlisted in its contest for a £600 million pair of new sustainable hospitals
The finalists are: AJ100 big-hitter BDP; London and Århus-based CF Møller Architects; HOK; NBBJ; and Penoyre & Prasad with Danish stars Schmidt Hammer Lassen, who are both now part of US giant Perkins&Will.
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The five bidders will now be asked to further consider the trust’s requirements and set out their detailed delivery approaches, including how they plan to engage with patients and staff on the design of the new hospitals.